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Pebble Cased Caddis Pupa
Tied by Steve Beedle |
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Hook: #14-#6 med to long shank hook
Case: Coarse sand
Body: Dazzle link or fur with pheasent tail feathers to imatate the legs
(optional)
Underbody: Yarn or cheniele (optional)
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| Tying Instructions |
| To build the case you can either saturate the underbody with epoxy, or
in my case I just put epoxy right on the hook, with out tieing in an
underbody. And the bury it in sand till the epoxy has set. Then I tie in
Dazzle link for the body, and comb it out a bit with some velcro. You
can also tie in Pheasent tail fibres to simulate legs. |
| Fishing Tips |
I first tied this fly right on the river bank. I had seen a simular
pattern in a book, and one slow day I had seen the cased caddis's crawling
on the bottem of the river. So I took a hook and some 2 part 5 min
epoxy, and buryed it in the sand , put a body on it, and I caught alot
of fish that day. Because of the epoxy body, this fly is very durable.
I normally tie this fly with a #8 or 6 med - long shank hook. But with previos swaps with tiers from the states I have made it smaller. I am sending an actual case from a Caddis that I collected from the river I generally fish (Blackwater
river) and you will understand why I tie them big. Last year in a
Cronimid swap I sent my normal size that I use here. I think a #10 or
12. And when I got the flies from the other swappers , mine looked like
a Salmon fly compared to the rest.
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