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Foamhead CDC & Elk

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Find "HiVis CDC Midge" here

HiVis CDC Midge

Small hatch: A high-visibility orange post and CDC makes this small dry perfect for your 7X tippet. Easy to tie, easy to follow on the water and a perfect choice when the fish are picky. Darryl Lampert from South Africa shows us one of his effective patterns.
See the step by step tying instructions here

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

Go to the article "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

Go to "A New Look at the Grannom"

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".
See more here

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Read more on "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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