{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Mugly caddis

Crap -- I don't see a shopping cart on that link, but if this breaks forum rules I apologize.  I just remembered that.  

Gene

On Saturday, March 26, 2016 at 7:51:19 PM UTC-4, TurbineBlade wrote:

Hey shadaholics!  I was just going to comment that the SNP streams are excellent too in case anyone was wondering about it between thoughts of hickories and Americans smacking against the side of rowboats and whatnot.  

Y'all ever seen this fly?  http://www.charliesflyboxinc.com/flybox/print.cfm?parentID=13

So Beth is an excellent angler, but ties flies much less frequently.  While no one should criticize a spouse who is willing to tie and fish, one of our frequent light-hearted "discussions" is that I tend to follow the recipe and really strive for proportions with flies, whereas she tends to make stuff up and tie flies which are a bit more...."artistic" than mine ;).  When we got to the stream early this morning I decided to use one of her caddis patterns, which is her take on a CDC and Elk.  They're easy to spot in the fly box next to mine ;).   What her CDC and Elk essentially amounts to is basically a #14 hook with some dubbing (instead of palmered CDC like Hans does), a couple of CDC feathers as a wing, and then some elk hair that is usually a bit longer than how most people tie it.  

That sucker worked really well today! -- I had it clipped off, and then back on, and lovingly retrieved from a few trees.....a few times today and darned if it didn't seem to get better results than my "proper" fly.  

I was just googling "scraggly caddis" and so forth, and came across this Craven pattern that not only looks virtually identical to hers, but has a similar story behind it!  

What a world -- So not only is "what fly did you use?" a thoroughly useless question in 99% of fly fishing (though it can be mildly interesting), maybe neatness doesn't count either ;).  

Anyway -- just a neat caddis pattern I thought you folks may not have seen.  I know Hans W. claims that he doesn't use CDC for anything other than movement/life, and that's obviously not to be disputed.  But, I like the movement + better floating that you get with using it more as a wing than a palmered job.  A paper towel square and some frogs fanny, and you're set for 20+ trout without drying.  

Gene

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