{{+1}}Sparkle caddis pupa{{-1}}

You can tell when trout are feeding on emerging caddis because you often see them porpoising out of the water in pursuit of the hatching insect. This sparkle caddis pupa is a good representation of that stage just before the insect sheds its shuck. The concept of the air bag is accredited to Gary LaFontaine and it is a great trigger point for emerging caddis.

Materials

Hook	Body Thread	Weight (optional)	Trailing shuck and air bubble	Wing	Thorax thread	Thorax
Tiemco 260Bl or Hanak Grub	Lime floss	Lead wire	Pearl UV dubbing	Olive	Rabbit guard hair	Herl dubbing

Process

A	Starting at the 95% position wind the floss half way round the bend of the hook. Understanding hooks

B	Tie in a clump of UV dubbing with some fibres behind the fly to represent a trailing shuck.

C	Pull the bulk of the UV dubbing back over where the trailing shuck is tied in and bind over that tie and just a couple of turns further round the bend of the hook. Take the floss forward 2/3 of the distance toward the eye of the hook.

D	Pull the UV dubbing forward but not tightly so that it can represent a bubble forming around the body of the caddis pupa. Tie the floss off with the olive thread and trim the excess floss.