Caddis Pupa
Special guest of the Fly Tying Experience: Håkan Karsnäser with its Caddis Pupa!
What you need:
- Wet fly hook size 10-16
- Partridge hackle
- Olive Hare’s dubbing
- Oval silver tinsel
- Hare’s ear dubbing
STeps:
- Choose a partridge hackle, fibres same length as hook shank. Tie it in behind the eye, inclina forward and backside up
- cut off a piece of silver tinsel and tie in along the shank, down the bend
- put some olive dubbing on the thread and make a slendon body. Make it 2/3 of the shank, tapered in both end.
- Wind the tinsel as a ribbing 3-4 turns counter wise and tie in.
- Take some hare’s ear dubbing and make a thin and slender thorax.
- Use a hackle pliers and make 1-2 turns with the hackle, back again the thorax. Tie in with the thread.
- Go with the thread through the hackle, the secure
- Make a small head and finish with the whip finish.
