Hemingway’s Caddis Special – Fly Tying with Jim Misiura

Check out Jim Misiura’s next fly tying video tutorial – a Hemingway’s Caddis Special using Hemingway’s Realistic Caddis Wings. Thank you Jim for sharing this great video with us.

Ingredients

• Hook: Standard Dry #12 – #18, great choice would be Maruto d04 Hooks
• Thread: Hemingway’s 8/0 Thread in Black
• Body Hackle: Grizzly
• Body: Beaver Dubbing in Olive
• Antennae: Mallard Barred Feathers in Natural
• Wing: Hemingway’s Caddis Wings
• Hackle: CDC Feathers in Brown

Steps

• Put the base of thread down where it would hang at the barb of the hook.
• Tie in the Grizzly Hackle.
• Wrap the Olive Dubbing to the one eye length from the eye of the hook.
• Bring the hackle forward making nice and even spaces and tie it in.
• Trim the hackle from the top.
• Take about four barbells of Mallard Flank and tie them in at the front of the hook.
• Fold Hemingway’s Caddis Wings with dull side down and tie them in.
• Take the Brown Hackle and tie it in at the head and wrap it few times. Tie it off.
• Whip finish it and put the head cement.

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