Yellow Sally CDC&Elk

[KevCompton 0]

Yellow Sally CDC&Elk:

 

[Harold Ray 0]

And, another beauty!

[mwtroubum 0]

That is awesome....

[madkasel 0]

I don't like that pattern.

 

I LOVE that pattern.

 

That's a truly exceptional photograph.

 

Can you give a little runthrough of how you tied that?

[KevCompton 0]

madkasel,

 

Yellow Sally CDC&Elk

 

Hook: Grip Barbless Hook 11011BL #16-20.

Thread: Yellow Hends Products Synton Thread.

Tag/Egg Sac: Red Glow-Brite Fluorescent Floss (Datam Products, UK).

Body: Yellow CDC Feather, Type #1 or #2.

Wing: Short Coarse Early Season Yearling Elk.*

 

There is an excellent instructional sequence for tying Hans Weilenmann's CDC&Elk on his site, Fly Tier's Page (http://www.danica.com/flytier/), which inspired this simple pattern:

 

http://www.danica.com/flytier/steps/cdcelk/cdcelk.htm

 

*The original CDC&Elk wing was tied, somewhat misleadingly, with Short Coarse Early Season Mule Deer Hair.

[Jon Boy 0]

kev

 

you have a lot of europen infulence going on there

 

you must have some experience of competition fishing?

 

all the best

john

[Philly 0]

That's pretty much the only caddis pattern I carry. I figure it's accounted for 50-60% of the trout I've caught over the last 10 years. Like Hans, I use deer hair to tie mine. About the same time I learned the CDC and Elk, the owner of a local fly shop suggested that if I planned to tie a lot a lot of caddis I should invest in a deer's mask. The main reason being that the various hair colors on the mask would cover the wing colors of most of the caddis hatches here in the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast, and he was right. The only caddis I can't match is the little black caddis. He sold me my first one, and I brought another one after that first one wore out. If you're tying a lot of caddis patterns using deer hair, think about buying one. The last one I brought cost me $15 and that was 6 years ago.

It's a very versitile pattern, and works equally well as a sub-surface fly.

[Crotalus 0]

Great fly, looks like i have to add another to the "to tie" list

[chrisfish 0]

I agree that an elk hair caddis is my go to fly most of the time. So does the cdc make it even better? I have to say it looks better than mine

That is a very buggy lookin fly. nice tie Kev

[KevCompton 0]

Jon Boy,

 

Please see PM.

[Soft-hackle 0]

An interesting variation! Nice work.

 

Mark

[willowhead 0]

Hans is a Pal-O-Mine and a very fine gentleman.........his pattern works as well as ANY Caddis pattern EVER invented. It is SUPER easy to tye, a VERY fast tye, and like the man said.....EXTREMELY versitile. It DOES even catch fish under water. mark.....