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The CDC & Elk family

Improving the best: Hans Weilenmann's CDC & Elk is a fly as good as they come. Still a lot of people - including Hans himself and the author - have made variations. This article covers a whole bunch of CDC & Elk variations.
Meet the family here

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The Polar Conehead

Muddler: This is a muddler design type of fly that is more or less a derived idea based on something that has been copied many times, but never the less an efficient fly that has caught the author many fish.
See the pattern here

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Merry Christmas

Holiday: The Global FlyFisher staff wishes everybody a very merry Christmas - and a happy New Year if we don't see you before then. A Christmas Fly saw its way into Martin's fill-the-box-project. A slightly more colorful variation of his usual drab and dull flies.
See a bit more about it here.

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The Ronker

Zonker: Rubber legs and a zonker... in orange. The Ronker is a fly for deep dwelling trout, featuring some weight bright colors, mobile materials and not least rubber legs.
See the pattern here

More on tying with hen hackles

Note the use of a soft webby hen hackle for the wing in place of the more traditional pair of duck quill slips.

Light Caddis

Type Wet fly

Originator
Helen Shaw

Tied by
Bob Petti

Difficulty
Medium

Target species
Brown trout

Materials

Hook Standard Wet Fly, 10-14
Thread Black
Tag Flat Gold Tinsel
Tail Golden Pheasant Tippet
Ribbing Orange Floss
Body Peacock Herl
Hackle Brown Hen
Wing Webby Dun Hen Hackle

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