Pheasant Wing Caddis

Pheasant Wing Caddis recipe

About this fly

The Pheasant Wing Caddis can be fished as an emerger, spent adult, or even (with enough floatant) as a dry. I've tied it in a size 12 here but it is effective down to a size 16 (smaller even I would imagine) and I've taken fish on these tied as large as a size 8. Tying Instructions Start thread a hook eye length back from the eye of the hook creating an index point, and wrap back to the bend of the hook. Thinly dub the abdomen and wrap forward about half way to the index point. Tie in the hackle on the hook just in front of the abdomen, shiny side up. Apply just a bit more dubbing and wrap forward just enough to palmer the hackle 3-4 times. Palmer the hackle forward 3-4 tight turns taking care to keep the shiny side forward, tie it off, and trim free the excess. Mount two Coq De Leon hackle fibers to the top of the hook so they extend out to either side of the eye of the hook and wrap your thread back to where you tied off the hackle. Trim the hackle on top of the hook close to help position the wing. Prepare your pheasant wing: select a Church Window feather that is slightly larger than needed. Remove the fluff and trim the excess rachis to a manageable size. Mount feather shiny side up to the sticky side of clear packing tape (dull side of the feather stuck to the tape) taking care to keep the feather barbs together, and trim the tape to the edges of your feather. Fold the feather neatly in half along the rachis so that the shiny side of the feather is out and the non stick

What the Pheasant Wing Caddis imitates

• Caddis pupa (emerger)

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