What is your most effective caddis pupa that you tye?

[Jeremi]

Going to tye up some pupa. Looking for a fast tye. I fish fast tyes flies MUCH harder knowing that it only takes a few minutes to pump one out.

 

[Bruno]

walts worm -

 

[Jeremi]

Do you tye them in any colors other than natural hares ear plus?

 

[gochs]

I use the Shark's Caddis pupa a lot now. Just green and tan. Twist the antron, wrap it up the shank, then peacock herl. looks good enough for me!

 

[SBecker]

Cream dubbing 3/4 up hook finish with fox squirrel dubbing. You can use a bead or wrap with gold wire up to the fox squirrel dubbing. I have been catching a lot of fish on a local creek with this pattern and I think the fish are taking it for a caddis immatation.

 

[Jeremi]

I thought Sharks caddis and Walts worm were more larval imatative patterns??

 

[gaeronf]

MAy not be the easiest but here is the caddis i tie:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGeewYts9yY[/youtube]

 

[FrequentTyer]

Jeremi wrote:
I thought Sharks caddis and Walts worm were more larval imatative patterns??

Who knows what they imitate? The pupa is actually pretty similar until emergence (at least from a fast tying perspective). I really like the chunky caddis and tie several variants of it, but they are not really fast ties. Davy Mcphail has a nice video on this pattern if you are interested. If you want something more quick and dirty, just add a soft hackle to the Walts worm or sharks.

 

[sandfly]

La'Fontaine sparkle pupa or deep pupas

 

[bam]

bright green or cream antron/fur mix dubbing with peacock herl or dark dubbing for the head/thorax. You can add a rib for the larvae, or tease out the dubbing and add legs for the pupae if you want more detail.

 

[tocar]

LaFontaine sparkle and deep are always in my box. But lately I've fished something similar to gochs' choice. Twisted antrom yarn for body, ice dub head, and sometimes a wrap or two of partridge. Often times I skip the hackle and just brush out the dubbing.

peace-tony c.

 

[troutslammer]

Hares Ear soft hackle period doesn't get any easier than that

 

[sniperfreak223]

troutslammer wrote:
Hares Ear soft hackle period doesn't get any easier than that

^this. All I ever use for caddis pupae these days.

 

[Fishidiot]

Here's mine (or something similar to this). I use tan or green abdomen.

 

[SkyBlue]

My pupa that I have been tying for years.

 

[PACOFRANSICO]

This how I tye mine. I use colored stretch tubing insert coper colored altra wire wrap body up and herl coller behind the bead. and thats it. I tye em on a dia rikki 135 sz 12 to 16. I killed steelhead on this pattern in red black and dark green.

 

[lv2nymph]

I really like the wire inside the tubing gonna give that one a go...

 

[PACOFRANSICO]

I know they will work.

 

[afishinado]

sandfly wrote:
La'Fontaine sparkle pupa or deep pupas

+1

 

[mcwillja]

SkyBlue wrote:
My pupa that I have been tying for years.

sweet pupa Sky. What material did you use for the thorax?