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Zap Caddis
Tied by Matt Meservey |
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Hook: Mustad caddis or nymph hook. 12-18
Head: Peacock herl
Body: Rabbit hair dubbing and thread
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| Tying Instructions |
Wrap thread on hook. Wrap over lead wire if you want a weighted fly.
Wrap to rear of hook. Dub rabbit hair on thread and wrap on body.
Tapering up as you wrap. Match your local colors but take into account
you will darken the fly later on. About 1/3 of the way back from the
hook eye wrap in 1 or 2 strands of peacock hurl. Wrap forward to eye.
Whip finish and glue head. Take a drop or two of Zap-a-Dap thin
cyanoacrylate (superglue) and run over the whole body. This does a
couple of things, It fixes the dubbing, it darkens it, and hardens it
so the fly is very tough. They also feel more like a cased caddis. The
caddis I have gotten off rocks have a hard little shell built around
them and these feel like those caddis from the stream. I started doing
this after I tested some of these flies on some small cutthroats and
they got all chewed up. After gluing, they hardly show any wear
at all after fishing. No more chewed up scraggly flies!
Be careful in the gluing stage, make sure you aren't holding onto the
hook with your fingers, the glue wicks down the hook and will instantly
bond the hook to your fingers. Then you have to tear the hook off your
hand along with a piece of flesh. Some of the early flies I tied this
way had enough of my hide left on them that they probably wouldn't
qualify on an artificials only stretch of river. So look closely, if
your fly looks like it might have some pork rind impaled on the hook,
don't fish an artificials only stretch, go catch some bass instead.
Good luck with them, I hope you catch a million with them. |
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