favorite caddis dry fly pattern

[Johnny Utah]

Davy, Is that wing folded? What benefit does this offer?

[Planettrout]

Raison d'être for the bullet head:

A FLY TYING JOURNAL: Bullet-head Emergers

...and another bullet head Caddis pattern that smacks 'em on big Western rivers:

Butch Caddis – Kelly Galloup « The Daily Fly Paper Blog

PT/TB

[wwelz]

Hey Planettrout - Thanks for the links > They were very informative

[Silver Creek]

Here's another variation on a folded wing caddis using the hackle stacker technique.

[Davyfly]

Johnney.
yes it it s folded wing, the fly above is not same.
The story of the flies origin is this. Many years ago l was fishing in Chile, while there fishing the lakes great hatches of caddis took place, they did not fly off the surface but ran across it to the shore. I wanted a fly that l could work on the surface without it sinking, this was the result. A Elk hair standard would sink below
It is a elk hair wing which is folded back at the rear end, thus more buoyancy
After that l developed two more skating caddis patterns, which are way better than the Davy caddis so far as a skating fly pattern there were featured in American Angler in the late 80s.
I will have the pics posted here of those later.
The DW caddis is about my favorite regular caddis when river fishing, and in larger sizes for stillwaters.

DW


DW

[Johnny Utah]

Davy,
Thank you very much for the story. Fly origins are always interesting to me. Cant wait to see the other patterns, as im not quite sure what they are.

Johnny.

[Johnny Utah]

Galloups Ultra Caddis is a great fly that floats like cork.

[upstatetrout]

You may also want to try a caddis with no hackle only a dubbed body and Snow shoe rabbit for the wing.I have been using them for years and have a had a lot of success with it.As you know from our discussions in the past behavior ,,drift,,presentation trumps all flies.Color of the dubbing is not all that important either but if it is a caddis it may just as well be brownish green.


Tom

[ashley]

My favorite Caddis is a CDC pattern which I found in Fly Tyer magazine a few years ago. It works very well all season long.

Hook-14,16
Body-CDC twisted and wound along the hook
Wing-2 CDC feathers
Head-Peacock but recently changed it to Mr.Peacock dubbing

[Archer 414]

I know this thread is old, but I just joined and wanted to share anyway... My favorite is a VT Caddis