Favorite caddis pupae/emerger pattern

[bam]

Just curious as to how everyone ties their caddis patterns. I like mine buggy. From back to front, i usually tie a shaggy body and rib with mono or wire. Legs are usually a few fibers from a hen back and I like some dark hares ice dub up front with or without a bead.

I found this awesome emerger caddis on youtube. I tie fishing flies but if you want to get creative, he uses some interesting techniques on this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iFxwVW5y1w

 

[jerseygeorge]

Awesome tie, thanks for sharing that. I just have to figure out the correct colors for our streams. I use green and cream colors, his is a little more yellow.

...and where the heck do you think he got that lead foil from? I need some of that.

 

[BelAirSteve]

My shop here in Maryland has it...

Greatfeathers

 

[blueheron]

That was an interesting take on a caddis.Maybe the Klingon Caddis. The segmenting technique was slick, I might try it on a stonefly nymph. I tie the LaFontaine type caddis emerger and a real simple caddis pupae, like a giant midge with an ostrich collar.

 

[osprey]

JerseyGeorge..............some of the best lead foil can be obtained from anyone who works in a dentist/doctors office that takes x-rays , it doesn't have to be lead either , you can buy copper foil in various thicknesses at Michaels craft stores , little less toxic than lead but it's a little lighter too , i'm sure the fly shops have foil for tying , i'll bet sandfly has it. blueheron........i was checkin out your website for your shop , love the limestone building , couldn't locat an address or location , where you at?

 

[jerseygeorge]

Thanks for the link on the lead foil. I will pick some up!

I tie lots of gold ribbed bead head caddis pupae, very simply tied. Scud hook, green or cream dubbing, gold ribbed. If someone wants a pic I can put one here. Size 14 and 16 mostly but I carry 18's also. I also make the same fly with a body of peacock herl.

For emergers (which was the original question I think) I tie Gary LaFontaines. I have a lot of success fishing them as dries!

 

[blueheron]

I don't have a shop or a website but I do have a two car cinder block garage that I wish was a limestone building.

 

[BelAirSteve]

Let me clarify...I did not mean to imply that I had a shop. A better choice of words would have been "The shop I buy from here in Maryland has it."

 

[CLSports]

That is a great looking pattern. I know I would eat it.

 

[whheff]

I like this pattern. It is easy to tie and when you look at the picture, it is hard to tell from the real thing.

http://globalflyfisher.com/patterns/sharks-caddis-larva/

 

[bam]

Really like that pattern whheff. Nice find. I should be able to bang a few of those out in no time at all

 

[tomgamber]

Its a great pattern but I think he was asking for an emerger or pupa pattern not a larvae pattern. Regardless, finding he right color material is the hard part in tying that one. It looks really great.

 

[osprey]

That picture is really impressive. It IS hard to tell unless you look real close , the thing that comes to mind though , and i'm not trying to squash anything or anyone (that fly looks like one of the boys) Wouldn't a caddis larva in that stage of it's life be enclosed in some kind of case , like sticks stones etc.?

 

[SkyBlue]

Here is a pattern that I have been using for years.

Most of the time I use it as a dropper off a dry. Also works very good as a swing up (nymping deep) fly at the end of a drift on a tandem rig.

 

[whheff]

tomgamber wrote:
Regardless, finding he right color material is the hard part in tying that one. It looks really great.

tomgamber, I used a Montana Fly Co. antron yarn. I think that any 3 ply antron yarn would work. I used a cream colored yarn with a root beer bead and peacock. It really looks great.

 

[tomgamber]

Did you notice he spins rabbit for unto the yarn? Cool effect.

 

[jayL]

cdc and elk

 

[troutslammer]

cdc emerger (gray), henryville special , uses feather for the wings , effective when low flying females are depositing eggs , these are the times when the trout are jumping clear up out of the water esp. in oct, and a elk hair on top of the water doesn't even get a second look , tie one of these on , might make a difference fishing a very puzzling hatch !

 

[HuntinFool]

thats a nice one might try it

 

[flybop]

Osprey, whether or not the larva has a case depends on the species. Some are case builders and some are free living. This brings up a good question though: Does anyone know how much before they emerge/hatch the grannoms leave their case and do they spend any appreciable amount of time out of the case before swimming or floating to the surface? As I write this my copy of "Caddis Flies" is looking down on me, but I am too preocupied to dig into it.