Older Caddis Patterns

I don't know, if others like to do such "weird things" as I like to do, but one thing I really enjoy when tying standard patterns gets "a bit boring", is to sift through old books and magazines, I have lying around, (about 5 feet deep in most places at least measurement), and try and tie some pattern I've never seen before, or, a pattern I've seen but forgotten about.

So, yesterday, while trying to navigate my tying room, the lamp on my spelunker's hat, burned out and in the dark I tripped over an issue of "Fly Fishing" from 1984.

After reviving the parakeet and getting the lights on again, I sat down and tied up the below pictured caddis pattern, from the magazine.
The article labels it; "The Perfect October Caddis".
Maybe, this particular caddis pattern is still popular and being tied, still, today but I sure haven't seen it, in many years.
Anyway, I happen to believe that "A fly is only as good as the fish it catches", so taking a few of these out on the Necanicum today..... I returned home a happy duck after netting 11 fish, using this one fly.

If you'd care to tie it, the secret formula is:
Hook: Mustad 94840 #6
Thread: Uni-8/0 black
Tail: None
Body: Spun and clipped-orange deer hair-(very fine, what we call
"Coastal Deer Hair").
Palmered Through body: Ginger Rooster Neck.
Wing: Elk Hair, Stacked & Even.
Hackle Collar: Black Rooster Neck
Head: Spun & Shaped Deer Hair, same as body, natural.
Antenna: Moose Mane- 3 to 3.5" long.

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...lies/DHC-A.jpg

Thanx so much for the pattern, did you colour the deer yourself or was it already red?

Will try that out when i get better at tying deer hair.

Jeanne

Paul,
Your a wizard at finding interesting flies! Try tying an old Bucktail Caddis! (orange body)
The BC got put in the closet by the Elk Hair and Stimulator.
Doug

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Originally Posted by jmeyerc

Thanx so much for the pattern, did you colour the deer yourself or was it already red?

Will try that out when i get better at tying deer hair.

Jeanne

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You're welcome!
The deer hair is ORANGE, tho', not really red! I'm just a really bad photographer!!
The deer hair was purchased, already died orange.
And, actually, if you wish to practice tying with deer, this fly is really very good for that purpose, too. The body is spun on a bare hook shank of course but being long and "just round", with no tapering or anything fancy involved in shaping it, it's very easy to tie and trim.
The head, is also a very easy deer hair practice area. Because the head is simply a small, round, ball of spun hair!

Doug.............. thanks, but as my bride always tells me........... "Strange and different, attracts, strange and different"! Of course, when she told me that, I told her "You're RIGHT! It's why my friends on FAOL are the ones they are!!" THEN, she understood!
If ya' like "old and odd and unusual patterns" too, I just tied up some "Partridge wing Hornbergs", tonight from a VERY OLD book I've got. I could post, one of those, as soon as I reload my digital with more film!?!

Paul,
I can't wait to see the new/old stuff!
"If ya' like "old and odd and unusual patterns" (That's what we are!)
Also, look at this map and does it show where you were fishing? http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
Thanks,
Doug

Very nice and interesting fly! Thanks for sharing.

Skip

theres an 'archive of old flies' on this website also!!

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Originally Posted by DShock

Paul,
I can't wait to see the new/old stuff!
"If ya' like "old and odd and unusual patterns" (That's what we are!)
Also, look at this map and does it show where you were fishing? http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
Thanks,
Doug

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Dougy, I clicked on your provided link and it brought up a google map of the entire Untied States!??! So, yes, it "does show, where I was fishing"...... IN the United States!

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Originally Posted by flybinder

Dougy, I clicked on your provided link and it brought up a google map of the entire Untied States!??! So, yes, it "does show, where I was fishing"...... IN the United States!

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Paul,
That proves I have quite a rep for finding links!! LOL! Holy Cow! I found the U nited States!! I am goooood!
Happy New Year!!
Doug

Doug-Please Pass The SPAM-DShock:
HAPPPPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!, to YOU as well, my good friend!!
I'm actually GLAD that you sent me that link, on the US! It reminded me of a Link, I saw near the water, over at Rocky Ford Creek, this past summer! I hadn't seen a "Link, in the wild", for some time so that one was a real treat to see!

I saw another, Link .... while scouting Elk this fall. It always amazes me, when I see a Link, because for such a fairly large, wild member of the feline family, it's really interesting that their tails are always so short!??!

Anyhooooo.... you asked, ( I think?), for another "oldie moldy" fly, from years gone by and since I'm trying to tie up as much as I can, right now, before my tying days come to a screeching halt............I looked thru more of my "very VALUABLE, old files",(or, what my lovely bride refers to, as: "That disgusting pile of rat nest material, covered by 4" of dust, that's the ONLY THING, in your room,filthier than your fishing hat!"
Well, you're single Doug, so you may not quite understand that my wife's, SEEMINGLY rude, comments........are merely just JEALOUS comments, because I own such interesting artifacts and SHE doesn't!
Anyway, the first is that "Partridge Hornburg", I'd mentioned, earlier. (It's an old pattern, but actually was recently featured in "Fly Tyer" this past Spring)

The second, is an old "Elk Hair Steelhead Skater" pattern that we actually still get results with, here at the coast, when water's low and very clear.(From: Fly Fishing Mag.1996)

Sorry, for the poor photography,especially on the underbelly shot,(TRYING to show you, the orange dubbed bodies), on both, but I'm currently training my new "fish'in partner" and at only 13 weeks old, she's at the age where she feels "She HAS to HELP me, do everything"!

Anyhooooo, 'here 'Tis.............

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...HORNBURG-A.jpg

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...HORNBURG-B.jpg

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...s/SKATER-A.jpg
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...s/SKATER-B.jpg

Paul,
About the "Disgusting pile of rat's nest materials!" That's only in my nightmares, because I'm obsessed with being organized, so there are no days like "OH! NO! Where R my KEYS!!!!!!!" HMMMMMM!!!! Breathe!!! After being married my whole life, being single is like going on vacation and staying there!
The Partridge Hornberg is an interesting fly!! You did a good job tying it!
The Elk Hair Steelhead Skater is cool! It would be great fun to fish with it!
What breed of Dog is your new fishin' partner?

I have a couple flies I would like you to consider for future posts.
1. Bird's Stonefly
2. Bucktail Caddis (orange or yellow)
3. Adams Irresistible.
4. Gray Wulff.
5. No-Color Sidewinder
Source; Tying and Fishing the West's Best Dry Flies- Bob Wilson & Richard Parks. 1978
Only 20 min till Happy New year!!
Doug

D-Doug;
Don't know, truthfully, if I have that much "tying" left in me!! Geesh!
The two, I posted, especially the Elk Skater, took me 2 morphine doses and an hour and half to get completed. I'll try, all I can promise!
My new "fish'in bud", is a Cairn Terrier, the breed of dog that Linda and I breed and sell.
She was just one of those "special pups, from a random litter, that caught my eye, for some reason", which sure doesn't happen very often with the litters we have!! Just "Sum'pin 'bout her"!?! The day I returned from getting my final test results, (12/23), she was the first pup to run up to me, even before the other, 3 "in-house dogs", we already have, so................. can't 'Splain it, just happened"!!??!
Anyway, this is her, (Sophie), in all her glory. One a face shot, the other a pic of what she does BEST........ when not hanging on my heels, or wanting to "help me" take pics and tie flies!
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...s/SOPHIE-A.jpg
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...s/SOPHIE-B.jpg

What a precious little Dog!! I should buy one from you! But my Dog days are past.
Thanks,
Doug

Doug I can only strongly agree on that comment - she looks like a precious dog indeed that you have Flybinder.

I have always been told that if an animal singles you out - then that animal will always be the most faithful of companions in the world.

Flybinder: -
I like OLD fly tying books as well as new ones - my sister bought me a book from a guy here who sells old books and it's from 1952; called 'Fly Dressers' Guide' by John Veniard and it has some fantastic old flies in it. who wrote your one? and what is it called? and how old is it? I'm salivating just thinking abou it. *dribble, dribble - hehehe*

Jeanne

Hi, Jmeyerc!
Thanks; "Sophie" IS a great, little dog so far but still in the puppy training stage, at this point. She'll come around, in time, all Cairn Terriers do, they're extrememly smart dogs.
Linda and I have been breeding them for over 16 years now and this little girl just suddenly "caught my eye", out of a normal littler of 5 pups, so I decided to keep her for myself.
Anyway............ the flies I've tied and pictured above, aren't from books. They're from earlier issues fly tying and fly fishing magazine articles. (The Patridge Hornburg, is actually an old fly, but the tie I did is one I got from a spring 2007 issue of Fly Tyer Mag. I think it was.
Your Viniard book, is a real classic, hold onto to it!! You don't see it all that often, any more. John Viniard was also the man that co-invented the still available lines of "Viniard's Cellire Varnishes" and materials dyes, some of the best in the industry.