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Lost Lake Caddis #2

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Find "A New Look at the Grannom" on this page

A New Look at the Grannom

Early: The Grannom is a small sedge (caddis to those in USA), which hatches in large quantities in April and is regarded as the first fly to prompt trout to "look up".
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Go to "The CDC & Elk family"

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

Find "Tying with CDC" here

Tying with CDC

Duck's arse: Dutch Hans Weilenmann tells the history of the use of CDC feathers in fly tying, covers the different types of feathers and their use and lists both CDC tying tips and a bunch of CDC patterns.
Take a CDC lesson here

Read more on "Brown Spinner"

Brown Spinner

A spider style dry: An old, no-fashion dry fly. The one, that GFF partner Kasper tied right after having learned to tie the Red Tag Palmer and the one, that gave him many of his first dry fly experiences some twenty years ago, when it all started for him together with his grandfather.
Spin on here

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Proceed to "The Action Emerging Caddis" here

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

Lost Lake Caddis #2

Type Dry fly

Originator
Andrew Marshall

Difficulty
Medium

Materials

Hook Mustad 94831 size 10
Thread 8/0 rusty dun
Body Rear 2/3, blend 2/3 olive, 1/3 chartreuse hareâ€™s blend front 1/3 olive gray rabbit
Body hackle Light grey
Front hackle Grizzly
Wing Two Canada goose CDC plumes, dark coastal deer
Rib Yellow thread

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