Mink Caddis?

[teachmarkey]

Hi all,

A friend of mine was nice enough to give me a mink tail that was part of a yard sale find. He told me that it could become an easy caddis tie, using the guard hairs for the tail and the fur for dubbing. But I'm not familiar enough with fly tying to just improvise the tying. Can anyone point me in a direction for using it?

Thanks in advance,
Hugh

[EdD]

Here are a couple links from Google...
I also saw a warning that the Virtual Flybox website had been cracked and taken over. It was offline when I tried to reach it.

_http://flytyingworld.com/fly-detail-491-ZelonMinkCaddis.html

_http://www.danica.com/flytier/hklinken/caseless_caddis.htm

Ed

[planettrout]

A tutorial for the "MINK THING", a caddis pattern I discovered in...1975...

http://planettrout.wordpress.com/201...ing-attractor/

PT/TB

[ScottP]

How about Len Wright's Skittering Caddis; uses the mink tail fibers as the wing:

http://tu225.org/Long_Cast/2009-2010...r.for.site.pdf

Regards,
Scott