TDLW Caddis

[uffepuffe 0]

I really like the CDC loops you can use for emergers and such, but I haven't really found a good way to use it for wings on caddis because the loop becomes to round and open. Yesterday while playing around with a new material for the abdomen I started experimenting with the loop again. I found that if I took a dubbing needle and heated it slightly and bended the CDC around this I got a much more narrow loop, looking like a tear drop almost!

 

 

The really cool stuff with the fly (if I may say so myself) is when you see how it sits on the surface and the way the abdomen sits under the surface, like a egg laying caddis!

 

Sitting on the surface

 

"Trout view"

[chrismartin 0]

Great looking fly... is the abdomen silk?

[uffepuffe 0]

No it's a strech material called "Dream stretch" which I have been asked to evaluate, it's rather nice, thin and super stretchy, I think it will be out for sale early next year.

 

Ulf

[Lapland flyfisher 0]

Was it simple to tie? Anyway the flie looks very nice, i believe it will work great for some whitefish.

[uffepuffe 0]

Thanks Lapland... yeah I guess it was rather simple, depends on what you compare it with. Whitefish you say... well, I probably won't ever fish any whitefish with it, I am more hoping that the trout and grayling likes it.

[Claudia 0]

jup, that works for me sweet flie and great tie Uffe.

 

Claudia

[uffepuffe 0]

Thanks Claudia!!!

[Service Tech 0]

Another fine fly Ulf. Great use of the CDC.

[utyer 0]

Again a really nice fly, great trick with the heated dubbing needle. Thanks for sharing.

[Lapland flyfisher 0]

Thanks Lapland... yeah I guess it was rather simple, depends on what you compare it with. Whitefish you say... well, I probably won't ever fish any whitefish with it, I am more hoping that the trout and grayling likes it.

Yeah, sure they do. But what I did mean was that the whitefish is mostly of the time very fastidious. Do you understand?

 

Äesh, vi tar det på ren svenska. Jag syftade på att den där flugan lär nog funka prima trots att siken är rankad som en av de svåraste fiskar och fiska efter, då den är otroligt kräsen. Men den där tror jag, skulle kunna leverera...

[uffepuffe 0]

Oh, then I understand perfectly! No problem!

 

(Whitefish tänkte jag att du syftade på vilken vitfisk som helst ju )

[Brian Brown75 0]

I might have to try this pattern