Peeking caddis pattern, deadly.

[Johnny Utah]

I use this fly quite often, and it it produces great and some days it just kills. Dont mind my rambling at the end

[skeets]

We tie 'em here using lime green, and a blend of brown and SLF prism dubbing to give a tan brown case with highlights (with partridge for the legs also). With a copper bead as well as the black. Since the naturals are a pale translucent green and use a dark brown case made of sticks, this is nothing like the naturals. But deadly in the lakes and some streams on this side of the world also.
craig

[skeets]

The green you're using in the video is darker than what we use in my country, but more like the colours I see everyone using for tieing caddis nymphs in northern america, so not a surprise. lime green seems to work better in Australia's tannin stained waters, probably looks close to yellow and both probably pale out under 3 feet. as mentioned, neither colour looks like the natural in the air in my seine net, but yellow and lime green sure do work.

Tips:

If you cannot find wool for the peeping caddis "worm" in the right colour, you can make the worm out of longer strands of dubbing of a suitable texture and colour - even mixing up your own. You will need dubbing strands about an inch long - pull some out, align the strands and roll into a cylinder - separate until desired diameter.

For some reason, the use of some ice dub like you mentioned or uv slf prism in the casing adds a lot to the effectiveness. possibly just makes it easier to detect? works though.

A quick way to trim up all the loose ends on the casing - depending on the dubbing mix you use and how much synthetic material is in it, if the mix is suitable, you can use a cig lighter flame to trim up all the loose ends. Hold the fly by the worm and partidge legs end so these are protected from the flame/heat, and waves a small flame to neaten up.
craig

[troutnut]

Nice fly. I like the instructions about loose wraps and not twisting the legs. Now I know why mine were twisting.

[Johnny Utah]

Skeets, I do them with a lime green, white, cream, and dark green. All of the colors are pretty effective at there own time as we do have many caddis, that are in wide range of green colors. In my samplings i have found ones as dark as a deep forest green, almost black to light almost neon lime green. Cream colored ones are pretty prevalent in the streams around here as well. Oh i also twist them up with a orange yarn as well. Nice tips as well, thank you for sharing. I have burned the hair down in the past but man does it stink. Also i like the way the case looks in water when its trimmed down. But im sure the fish dont care much. I think the addition of flash in case, just gets the fishes attention. Catches there eye so to say.

Troutnut- Glad you liked it and you learned something. I try to give as much instruction in videos as possible, because its little details like that make the HUGE difference.

[skeets]

dark green sounds remarkable, but orange! (shakes his head) - just what were those fish thinking when they took that!....

[biloutback]

Johnny - like your step by step instructions, been tying a very long time, and yet still always pick up something new or different. i like this reversed tied caddis going to make a few later today.

[littlej81]

dark green sounds remarkable, but orange! (shakes his head) - just what were those fish thinking when they took that!....

trout eat cigarette butts too

[Johnny Utah]

dark green sounds remarkable, but orange! (shakes his head) - just what were those fish thinking when they took that!....

Here in the states we do have species of caddis that the larvae are orange. And at times the orange ones make it catching and not fishing.

[Johnny Utah]

Johnny - like your step by step instructions, been tying a very long time, and yet still always pick up something new or different. i like this reversed tied caddis going to make a few later today.

Thank you, Fly tying is the same as fly fishing, always something new to learn and to master. Have fun tying them, they will catch fish.