Ben,

I hope to have my flies out soon. We are predicted a windstorm tonight. Not good for a rural power co-op that just had trees weakened by an ice storm and ground saturated by the melting snow and ice. Hopefully we won't have the outages like last week!!

I don't have an official name for my flies but they're effective on one of the few trout streams here in Ohio. It is chock full of caddis and this pattern seems to work the best for me. It's embarrassingly simple especially for a swap but it works. I know I can't be the first to tie this fly so if anyone knows of the official name I'd be happy to know. I tie it on a TMC 72. The swap flies are #8 because that?s the only size I had but I usually tie them on a #10. The body is simply fluorescent green micro chenille palmered up and the head is peacock herl. That?s it. Stupid simple but effective.

Jay