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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

"Shark's Wasp" is found here

Shark's Wasp

The sting: Bulgarian fly tyer and fly angler Radoslav Kiskinov takes another stab at imitating a terrestrial insect - this time the wasp - and with usual skill he manages to produce a very life-like fly. Bulgarian anglers and Bulgarian fish love it.
Get stung here.

More about "The Action Emerging Caddis"

Action Emerging Caddis

And... action!: This fly is similar in outline to many existing caddis patterns, but has features unlike any caddis emerger pattern the originator has seen. It's based not so much on looking exactly like the real thing, but trying to get a fly to act like it.
Tie a fly with action here

Click to see "Mart's Parachute Ant"

Mart's Parachute Ant

Terrestrial: During the warmer months of the year, they are just about anywhere... Ants. Martin Westbeek shows an easy way to tie a good ant imitation that will sit well on the surface and hopefully lure trout or grayling.
See his prescription here.

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The Simplest Fly

Corked: "What is this"
"A fly!"
"What kind of fly"
"Well, this is a fly that imitates a beetle"
The fly that he showed me then was really huge one, may be about 2 - 2,5 centimeters or almost and inch in diameter.
"Wow, why is it so big?"
"Because I am an old man, I can not see well"
Go simple here

The Simplest Fly

Type Dry fly

Originator
Unknown

Difficulty
Very easy

Target species
Brown trout
Chub

Materials

Body Cork, like from a wine bottle
Hook Treble, appropraite size

Tying instructions
See the images below

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