Scintilla Caddis Pupa

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Tied up a few of these last night. Hopefully they’ll fish well. Just put together a few ideas I had about an easier-to-tie pupa pattern that would incorporate several “positive triggers” and ended up with this:

As always, PEACH (Please Evaluate and Critique Honestly). :smiley:

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Nice fly, what did you hackle it with? I might have gone up one more size with the hackle, but that’s just my preference. Looks like it could do double-duty for some mayfly hatches, too.

Regards,
Scott

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Nice fly! :smiley:

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Hackle: 1 turn of black hen and then 1 turn of starling. :slight_smile:

I wish my photography skills were such that I could get a decent shot of the body. I first make a silver tinsel underbody, then wrapped a transluscent-ly thin later of white thread, then made a split-thread dubbing loop for the scintilla…so that the inner body has a kind of glow to it as well.

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why do you cover up the tinsel with thread?

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I’ve done a similar thing using small glass beads for the body; don’t have any of my own pics but it looks something like this:
http://www.trout-streams.com/Tied%20Fly%20pic/Caddis%20Pupa%20-%20Emerger/pupa%20with%20beeds.htm

Thanks again for the fly/info.

Regards,
Scott

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2 reasons:

  1. keep the fish teeth away from the mylar

  2. gotta get the thread back to the bend somehow, and its easier than whip finishing, trimming, and restarting the thread.

Note that with a thread like uni this wont work unless you made wide, open wraps. With the UTC 70 I was using, though, the individual strands lay flat on the mylar, allowing the shine to come through, but muting it somewhat so it doesn’t look like a robot caddis. :stuck_out_tongue: