surf12foot
Just Hatched
Pink to make the boys wink!
What's in your vise?
- Thread starter Billy
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Vermont Caddis, size 14. This is old standby for me. Easy to tie with common materials (hares ear, mixed brown and grizzly) and can be fished several ways. It will fish dry in a dead drift or skate on edge on a tight line. If you only dress the hackle with floatant, it will rest eye up with the body sunken like an emerger. And it fishes well as a wet fly, especially in faster water that sweeps the dry fly hackle back.
I just love scruffy, natural material, could be anything flies!
I just love scruffy, natural material, could be anything flies!
What is this pattern called?
Yessssssssss!
Good question! Kind of a riff on a hare's ear wet fly.
FinLuver
Native Oregonian…1846
Does it have its own saddle??imagine the disappointment when I was asked for a full 10 inches of greatness....and I produced this...
the bones...
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the living, breathing animal....
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giddyupDoes it have its own saddle??
Thank you so much! I agree there are so many ways to take something like a hares ear. Or a muddler minnow, so many possibilities!
Lucky Wiggler- Jim Stewart
These pop nicely and dive and wiggle on a longer retrireve.
Hook: Ahrex Aberdeen Predator #1/0.
Tail: silicone legs, marabou, flashabou and two rooster hackles on each side.
Collar one- rooster hackle.
Collar two- deer hair.
body_ deer packed tight and trimmed into a cylinder roughly hook gap in diameter.
nose- body hair trimmed to a small diving lip.
Eyes: 6 MM Croc eyes from FTD
Front legs- three silicone legs pulled through the body.
These pop nicely and dive and wiggle on a longer retrireve.
Hook: Ahrex Aberdeen Predator #1/0.
Tail: silicone legs, marabou, flashabou and two rooster hackles on each side.
Collar one- rooster hackle.
Collar two- deer hair.
body_ deer packed tight and trimmed into a cylinder roughly hook gap in diameter.
nose- body hair trimmed to a small diving lip.
Eyes: 6 MM Croc eyes from FTD
Front legs- three silicone legs pulled through the body.
After taking my kids fishing at the dock with some power bait, they've been asking me to make them some flies. The first run was a hit, and thev've been playing with them, bathing with them, taking them to school for show and tell...etc. My daughter asked for another, with color specifications to boot. I took this opportunity to tie some flies from my past...and damn does this thing make me want to get out for steelhead again. 
