Oliver Edwards Cased Caddis

[JustinDavis 0]

A new addition to the fly pattern database has been submitted by jdavis:

 

Oliver Edwards Cased Caddis

 

[JustinDavis 0]

I love this pattern. You can also change it up a bit.

I made this case with a brush of mixed hairs: white, natural and black deer hair.

 

 

Justin

 

[HobbesFly 0]

Dude, that is a ballin' looking cased caddis. I'll have to tie some of them up... how do you fish them? Seems like the hair would not be your friend in getting the bug to the bottom.

[JustinDavis 0]

Well,

 

Oliver Edwards suggests that you fish them the Czech nymph style.

Basically, you can fish it anyway you fish a nymph.

 

As for the deer hair. Its no problem at all. There is 3 layers of adhesive lead tape underneath the case. It ain't gonna be floating, that's for sure.

Basically you want it to bounce and tumble along the bottom, as if it were a real cased caddis that got swept away by the current.

 

Justin

 

[HobbesFly 0]

Awesome- thanks for the info!

[the saltydog 0]

hey now! great legs on that baby.

 

how do you get the hair to spin so evenly over the lead tape?

[JustinDavis 0]

Because your not spinning deer hair on this fly.

 

Its made with a "Deer hair dubbing brush." i made mine myself on a "Turbo Dubbing Twister" I made myself.

 

The originals are called "Oliver Edwards Caddis Legs" and they are from Siman Ltd.

 

They look like this

 

 

and they can be ordered from here: http://shop.siman.cz/index.html?pod=/_sd_cale.htm

 

Justin

[Claudia 0]

Wow, this one is realy nice .

Great job and very creativ with the deer brush. :thumbup:

 

 

 

Regards Claudia

[Soft-hackle 0]

This is excellent tying work, Justin. It looks ready to crawl away and catch plenty of fish.

 

:thumbsup:

Mark

[JustinDavis 0]

Thanks Claudia and Mark,

 

Yes, I definately like this pattern. So far its pretty much the only one of Oliver Edwards' patterns that I have been able to do really well.

 

Justin

[INS 0]

Justin- Another nice tye. :bugeyes: