Good point, Buddy. I haven't considered that. I usually fish it like a dry fly. Don't twitch it much, just let it sit on the water and the LMB does the rest .

The Deer Hair (Trude) Caddis is just a dubbed light olive body with a natural deer hair wing parallel with and on top of the hook shank, and tied with a full dry fly ginger hackle collar. I use a size 8 Aberdeen hook with good results.

Hans at Danica has one here: [url=http://www.danica.com/flytier/pfrailey/deer_hair_caddis.htm:1c0c8]http://www.danica.com/flytier/pfrailey/deer_hair_caddis.htm[/url:1c0c8]

Here's another one of the same thing: [url=http://www.wellingtonflyfishers.org.nz/html/dry.html:1c0c8]http://www.wellingtonflyfishers.org.nz/html/dry.html[/url:1c0c8]

These don't have the light olive body though and are tied in much smaller sizes. Thanks for the input .


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Robert B. McCorquodale
Sebring, FL

"Flip a fly"

[This message has been edited by dixieangler (edited 06 February 2005).]