| The Barnyard Caddis
I saw this pattern in a Scott Sanchez article in Fly Tyer Magazine last year and gave it a try. It quickly became my favorite fast water caddis dry fly. The combination of snowshoe foot fur, CDC, and hackle creates a real cork of a fly. The fly may be dressed with silicone on the wing and powdered floatant on the rest of it, avoid gumming up the cdc with gel floatant. |
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| Advance the thread to the back of the hook and tie in a piece of Krystal Flash. |
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| Apply some dubbing to your thread, dub your body about 2/3 of the way up the hook shank. Rib the Krystal Flash over the body, tie of, and clip the excess. |
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| Tie in a wing of snowshoe foot fur. |
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| Tie in first a grizzly hackle, then a ginger or dun Henry's Fork Hackle. |
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| You can trim the HFH fibers before you wrap it, I think it's easier this way. |
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| Wrap you HFH, tie off and clip. You can give it a hair cut again if necessary but don't go overboard, make sure there's plenty of CDC. |
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| Wrap your grizzly hackle on, tie off and clip. Whip finish and cement your head. |
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