FLY
Caddisfly Emerger
Caddisfly Emerger recipe
| Hook | #10 - 16 dry |
|---|---|
| Thread | black 8/0 |
| Tail | dark, soft hackle fibers |
| Body | two peacock herls (twist into rope) |
| Wing | white duck quill |
| Hackle | partridge |
About this fly
This fly is from The Basic Manual of Fly-Tying by Fling and Puterbaugh where the emphasis is on imitating nature. Lay down a thread base wrapping to the hook bendTie in two peacock herls to the hook bend, twist the herls with a dubbing loop into a rope, make touching wraps forward to a good eye length behind the eye; tie off and clip extraTie in two sections of duck quill laying down back over the body the length of the hook; choose quill sections from opposing feathers about as wide as 1/3 the hook shank, stack two section together with concave sides facing each other; clip out extraTie in a partridge neck hackle; hackle should be 1 1/2 hook gap; two or three wraps depending on how long the hackle feather is; tie off; pinch backWrap a thread head; whip finish; head cement
What the Caddisfly Emerger imitates
- Caddis pupa (emerger)
Inside the vault every material on this fly opens to its own card, and you can save the fly to your own boxes.
