Flash Back Caddis

Materials:
Hook: #12 caddis
Weight: lead wire and orange tungsten bead
Body: mixture of olive rabbit and brown flash dubbing
Back: Mylar pearlescent flash
Thorax: black Dubbing of choice

This fly is very heavy and I use it mostly for French nymphing. It works well for yellowfish and trout.

Pellet fly

 

Materials:

Hook: #10 caddis or glo bug

Head: Tungsten bead (orange is a good option)

Thread: 6/0 brown or black

Body: Deer hair.

This fly can be an absolute killer when fishing ponds where the trout are fed on pellets. Fish it static under a strike indicator.

Soft Hackle Bunny (SHB)

Materials:
Thread: 6/0 White
Hook: #12 grip damsel
Hackle: grizzly soft hackle
Head: 3/0 flourescent pink thread
Body: olive CDC (dubbing loop)
Tail: Dark olive Zonker over olive zonker

Dikkop Caddis

Materials:

Thread: 6/0 any colour

Hook: 12-16 dry fly

Hackle: brown dry fly

Wings: dikkop saddle

Body: super fine dry fly (tan)

Chernobyl Beetle

Materials:

Hook: #14 nymph

Thread: 6/0 any colour

Body and head: bright red dubbing

Legs: brown hackle

Back: Rust brown foam

Flies that I have invented

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