little green caddis

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just a few patterns to start the new year off.

Thin Skin Body

Hook: Your Favorite
Body: Green Thin Skin or Equivalent
Thorax: Black or peacock colored dubbing

Fly Line Backing Body

Hook: Your Favorite
Body: 20# fly line backing colored with permanent marker
Thorax: Black or peacock colored dubbing

Dubbed Body

Hook: Your Favorite
Rib: Wire or oval tinsel
Body: Green Dubbing
Thorax: Black or peacock colored dubbing

Bracelet Body

Hook: Your Favorite
Body: Silicon bracelet that kids are wearing
Thorax: Black or peacock colored dubbing

Bead Body

Hook: Your Favorite
Body: Green & black beads

Thread Body

Hook: Your Favorite
Rib: Black Thread or wire
Body: Built up thread into a taper
Overcoat: Clear Cure Goo & Sally Hansens Hard as Nails
Thorax: Black or peacock colored dubbing

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That bead body has worked for me in blue over the years - can’t imagine why.

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Nice flies, Normand. Thanks for the pics.

Bob Jacklin used a green caddis to catch this beast of a brown:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Z_G1skm6A

Regards,
Scott

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I really like the Thread Body version. Looks translucent.

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I love the tyes , I just have not had any luck with caddis green patterns here in the west. I have friends that swear by them. I use cream colored caddis and they use green. They cant catch em on my patterns and I cant catch em on theirs. The Thin Skin pattern gave me a couple ideas for some Golden Stone Thin Skin I have.

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Nice ties Normand - thanks for sharing!

Cliff

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Normand beautiful flies–what is &amp . just can’t figure what it is. freddyg

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Ampersand, I’d guess.

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I’m guessing a typo? Should have been " Green and black beads" perhaps.

I do know when you cut and paste text from anything other than a basic text editor (i.e. notepad) like Word or something, punctuation usually doesn’t always copy well. That’s where a lot of unwanted question marks comes from.

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gee whiz! :frowning:

the ‘amp’ is now deleted. must have been a remnant from the copy and paste. :slight_smile:

hope it didnt distract too much from the relevant information i was trying to convey! :wink:

my spelling was spot on! :smiley:

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Great photos Normand, and thank you for sharing the various patterns for the “Little Green Caddis”, this will really help lot of folks who dress their own fly patterns…~Parnelli

Anyone who wishes a PDF copy of Normand “Little Green Caddis”, email me at parnelli@comcast.net. Subject: “Little Green Caddis”

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Normand,
Be careful, if prosecuted and convicted by “the board…er police” you might be subject to a 6 month term here:


If you do the crime you gotta do the time :stuck_out_tongue:

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Those were some fantastic caddis flies, thanks for sharing.

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I like the thread body, I bet in the water that is just going to be perfect.