What Are You Tying Today? 2025

[Jay_H]

Rosenhopper Size 10

 

[dc410]

Size 18 - Blue Wing Olive Comparadun

 

[dc410]

Thanks. I'm going to tie several for my May trip to PA.
I will definitely pay closer attention to the wing length on the next.
Just to the back of the hook correct?

The wings on adult caddisflies are tent shaped and lay back over the abdomen. They are usually a bit longer than the abdomen of the caddisfly, in reference to tying - to the bend of the hook or just a bit past the bend.

 

[skiltonian]

Tying up some midges before the game. Sz 20 TMC 2488 with a fluorescent white tung. Bead, 1.6mm. Grey 12/0 tread markered black for the rib with UV coating. A little olive dub, brushed out. First one, gotta taper the body better and might go to a lighter tread color

 

[McSneek]

My first caddis tie.
I think I got the wing a bit long?
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Besides the wing your body is way too long. Shouldn’t extend past the hook point and maybe even a little shorter than that. Keep tying. You’ll get better the more you work at it.

 

[Ladove]

A fleet of brush head deceivers to fill up some boxes

 

[RH1]

View attachment 1641247615A fleet of brush head deceivers to fill up some boxes

Those look awesome!

 

[RH1]

With the suggestions i received yesterday on my first caddis tying attempt I did 2 more this evening. I focused on body length and wing length. How does the proportion look on these 2?

 

[McSneek]

With the suggestions i received yesterday on my first caddis tying attempt I did 2 more this evening. I focused on body length and wing length. How does the proportion look on these 2?
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Are you using a hair stacker? If so, you need to tap it more than you are to get the deer hair tips to align. If not, get one. Wing is still a little long but improving. Body in top fly is good. I think you are making your dubbing noodle too thick. Use less dubbing and it will adhere better to your thread.

 

[nfrechet]

La Ouelle

Hook - Single salmon
Thread - Black
Tail - Orange hackle fibers
Body - Glossy gray chenille (giving silver highlights, avoid cheap, dull chenille)(I twisted gray chenille with oval silver tinsel to achieve the silver highlights)
Rib - Large silver oval tinsel
Wing - Silver fox fur
Collar - Orange hen neck hackle

Author's Note

The creator of this fly is unknown to me. I had heard in a riverside conversation that the creator was a certain Mr. Jean-Marie Lord?... Personally, it was Christian Milliard, an experienced local salmon angler, who introduced me to him.

According to this recipe. La Ouelle catches its share of salmon every season... Why not try it on the rivers of the north shore with the same colors!

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"La Ouelle" likely refers to Rivière-Ouelle, a picturesque town in the Kamouraska region of Quebec, Canada

 

[salmo]

Are you using a hair stacker? If so, you need to tap it more than you are to get the deer hair tips to align. If not, get one. Wing is still a little long but improving. Body in top fly is good. I think you are making your dubbing noodle too thick. Use less dubbing and it will adhere better to your thread.

Also after using the hair stacker you should brush or comb out the under fur from the deer or elk hair.

 

[RH1]

Thanks guys!

 

[Fly-Swatter]

Also after using the hair stacker you should brush or comb out the under fur from the deer or elk hair.

I suggest doing this before stacking because the underfur can inhibit good stacking.

 

[bdhoover77]

Trying to figure out a Baltz paranymph dry fly. I think the hackle is too big but if it’s holding up the post I’m not too worried about it. I don’t have calf hair for the post but instead have some orange dry yarn from Fulling Mill. Any suggestions would be welcomed.

 

[falcon]

Isnt a paranymph or floating nymph just a parachute type dry fly with a nymph color body? It probably should not have a shuck if it represents a nymph. Seems just different names for the same thing. People have been fishing a parachute hares ear for eons,

 

[bdhoover77]

Isnt a paranymph or floating nymph just a parachute type dry fly with a nymph color body? It probably should not have a shuck if it represents a nymph. Seems just different names for the same thing.

I think the idea is to represent an insect that tried but did not quite emerge from the nymphal/pupal shuck.

 

[RH1]

Ok, Caddis fly take 4!

 

[Jay_H]

Ok, Caddis fly take 4!
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That’s a nice tie. Definitely have made a ton of progress.

 

[RH1]

That’s a nice tie. Definitely have made a ton of progress.

Thank you. Got a stacker and tried combing out the hair first.

 

[SlingingWets]

Also after using the hair stacker you should brush or comb out the under fur from the deer or elk hair.

I actually like to pinch the tips of the hair in one hand and pull out all the shorter hair and under hair before I ever put it in the stacker. Not crucial but I found it makes it easier to stack.