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Hemingway
Tied by David Barron |
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Thread: 6/0 olive
Overwing: Mallard duck wing feather
Hackle: Med to dark dun neck feather
Body Hackle: Med to dark dun neck feather
Body: Olive fine poly dubbing
Thorax: Peacock herl 3-4 strands
Hook: Tiemco 100, 102Y, Dai-Riki 305 or equivalent, sizes 12-20
Underwing: Wood duck flank feather
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| Tying Instructions |
Many people are aware that the Hemingway Caddis is named after Jack
Hemingway, but few know the rest of the story behind this deadly adult
caddis pattern.
Back in the early 70's, Jack would take a May trip over to the Henry's Fork
to fish about the time of the Mother's Day caddis hatch. Before coming he
would get in touch with Rene' Harrop and order a medium dun or gray colored
caddis pattern similar to a Henryville Special. Rene' would tie up a bunch
of the flies for Jack, who would be satisfied and go off fishing.
At this same time Mike Lawson was teaching school and his wife; Sheralee
and Mike were doing a lot of commercial tying on the side. Doug Swisher had
put them in touch with a fellow named Cal Gates on Michigan's famous
Ausable River. They would tie about 3,000 dozen flies a year for Cal. He
would call up and describe
the different caddis on the Ausable and they would tie variations of the
Henryville Special in different colors to fill his orders.
In 1977 when Rene' and Mike were opening the Henry's Fork Angler Fly Shop
in Last Chance, Idaho, they sat down and figured out which dry caddis
patterns they should feature. Mike and Rene' filled the spent egg laying
adult niche with a pattern Sheralee invented called the Spent Partridge
Caddis. To cover the adult niche they decided on a pattern similar to the
ones Rene' tied for Jack, which wasn't much different than what Mike and
Sheralee had done for Cal.
Jack's early season flies were much lighter in shade than their fly, which
over the years has become even darker. For lack of a name for the fly, Mike
called it a Hemingway Caddis. He never got around to asking Jack if it was
all right to use his name, but one day he came into the shop and bought a
whole bunch of them, so they took that as a sign of his approval.
Mike has received great reports on the success of the Hemingway Caddis from
the Bighorn and Yellowstone Rivers. It should work anywhere you see dark
caddis. If you stock only two dry caddis patterns in your fly box, make
sure the Hemingway Caddis is one of them, and the Spent Partridge Caddis is
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| Fishing Tips |
| The Hemingway caddis is a fly that is hard to fish wrong. With it's full
hackled body it can be fished dead drift or can be fished with a active
retrive making it look like a caddis skidering across the water. I have
found that if the fly does not work dead drift that by adding movement to
the fly it will induce strikes. |
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