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Foamhead CDC & Elk

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Go to "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

Go to "Mart´s Bibio"

Mart´s Bibio

Foam wing: A nice thing about this Bibio is that it's versatile. Play with it, use lighter of heavier hooks, fish it with or without floatant, wrap a thinner or denser hackle, and so on. But make sure you have some Bibios in your flybox spring suddenly is here.
See Martin Westbeek's pattern here

Find "Rackelhanen" on this page

Rackelhanen

One material caddis: It will form legs, wing, body and the perfect silhouette of a caddis. It's a great floater and superb for fast water or as an indicator tied on above a seductive nymph.
See how this old but still-going-strong Scandinavian dry fly is tied.

Read more on "Chuck's FlutterStone"

Chuck's FlutterStone

Buggyness : Fly fishing guide Charles Robinton has put some serious trial and error into the design of his Chuck's FlutterStone. He thinks the result has the ideal amount of action, buggyness and overall attractiveness packed into the perfect stonefly profile.
Tie along here

Article(s)

This link takes you 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

Foamhead CDC & Elk

Type Dry fly

Originator
Martin Joergensen (owing a lot to Hans Weilenmann)

Difficulty
Easy

Materials

Hook Dry fly, down eye, size 12-16
Thread Tan 8/8
Body CDC-feather
Head Yellow foam over elk hair butts
Wing Fine elk hair

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