Caddisfly Adult

Dry Fly

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #10 – 20 dry 2x or 3x long

Thread: black

Materials-

tail: moose mane (or havelina)

body hackle: dark dry fly, 1.5 hook gap

body: wool (drab)

wing: elk or deer

Notes:

From Fling & Puterbaugh: The Basic Manual of Fly-Tying – a George Bodmer design

Use a 2x or 3x long dry fly hook
Lay down a thread base
Dub a small lump above the barb; choose a color to match the body
Tie in two moose mane hairs for the tail, one on each side of the shank using the lump to split them into a V
Tie in a dark dry fly hackle at the tail
Tie in a strand of wool yarn to the tail
Touching wraps with the wool to create a body, layer for a bulkier body; tie off and clip two eye lengths behind eye
Spiral wrap the hackle over the body; tie off and clip
Measure a stacked pinch of elk hair from two eye lengths behind the eye to half way on the tail; tie in; clip excess at a slant close to the hook shank
Wrap a thread head over the clipped butt ends of the elk hair
Whip finish; head cement/resin