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Simple . . . BUT DEADLY By Jeff Pierce
Tying Recipe
Tying Instructions: Step 1. Place R48 hook into vice and secure the thread to the hook up near the eye and wrap the thread back to just before the hook begins to curve.
 Step 3. Procure yourself 1 or 2 good CDC feathers. Secure the feather(s) so that they extend to just behind the bend of the hook. Try and keep the head as small as possible. The more CDC on this fly the better.
 Step 4. Tie in small clump of bleached Elk Hair. NOTE: If you have some good CDC with short hackles you can palmer the CDC the whole length of the shank instead of tying it on top. If you do this there is no need to do a dubbed body. (See Photo of CDC Caddis Variant). Yes, it's ugly but the fish really love it.
 Step 5. Find a rising fish, cast and hold on!
Fishing Instructions
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Most of the trout waters I fish here in Upstate NY are
rather placid. There is not a whole lot of whitewater
to be found here locally. Our waters are much different
than the fast moving waters that I have been so lucky to
fish out West. It was tough to keep smaller dry flies
(12-16) afloat. We were doing well on gray Caddis dries
fishing the Gallatin, Boulder and Yellowstone. So, while
tying flies at the FFF National Conclave in Livingston,
MT, Ed Alves and I simply loaded up the flies with lots
of CDC. That afternoon our dries were floating high and
getting a lot of attention from the 14-23" Browns, Cutt's
and Rainbows. This pattern has found a permanent space
in my box.
Step 2. Dub SLF dubbing onto thread. Wrap forward so whole tying
length is dubbed.
About Jeff PierceJeff Pierce, AKA Dr. Fish, is the Sales Manager of Fly-Fishing Products for O. Mustad & Son (USA), Inc and Partridge of Redditch. He is the Captain of Team Mustad USA and is a diehard angler and fly tier. He has traveled from Buffalo to Borneo in search of finned quarry to grapple with.
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