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Good-looking fly Alan. I'm not sure how you tied it.
Care to give a short bullet list of steps?

RE> "Byron's top-mounted-parachute caddis, above"

Well sure. Absolutely. Put those legs below the wing, rather than on top, and you're almost there. How much all of this matters to the fish is...

RE> Byron

Yes. That's a nice fly. The clipped hackle accomplishes much the same thing (a flat and low to the water profile).
If you study the morphology of the natural, in the first photo at the...

Hi Alan:

OK. So there is a hard-learned trick to tying down-wing parachutes. Mount the hackle stem. Tie on the down wing. Wind the hackle around the wing's tie-down point. Couldn't get any...

Mother's day caddis are hatching in SW Montana...perhaps as much as two weeks early.
Been hatching for a week already. Saw a humming bird today. 37 years in Montana and that was a first too.

The...