Bead head stick caddis

 

This is the lava of a Caddis fly (or Sedge) and is common from September through to December particularly in the flooded margins of lakes. The bead head version has been designed to be fished as an anchor fly when loch style fly fishing or as an anchor fly when fishing rivers.

Materials

Hook Bead Thread Head Legs Rib Body
Size 10 to 14 2X long shank Black tungsten bead 3.0 mm suits #10 hook Brown Yellow closed cell foam
or poly yarn		 Brown Grizzly hackle Fine copper wire Peacock herl or dubbing

Process

A
  1. Using closed cell foam for the grub head

B

  1. Slide the bead onto the hook smaller opening first all the way to the eye of the hook.
  2. Wind the thread in touching turns from the bend of the hook.
  3. Tie in a length of poly yarn projecting like a small tail about half as long as the gape of the hook.
  4. Trim the poly yarn at an angle to the hook shank so as to not form any ridges along the body.
  5. Paint the tips of the poly yarn with black head cement to represent the eyes of the protruding cased caddis grub.

C
  1. Tie in a hackle at the bend of the hook and take three wraps of the hackle.
  2. Tie the hackle off and trim the excess.

D
  1. Push the hackle back with your fingers or an empty biro tube and take a couple of wraps of thread to hold them facing slightly backwards.

E
  1. Either dub on a thin body of good quality dubbing material or build up a peacock herl rope body all the way to the eye of the hook.

    2.

F
  1. Whip finish just behind the eye of the hook, trim and varnish the thread.



Last Updated: March 6, 2011
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Categories: Bead head nymphs, Flies, Foam and poly flies
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