Pumpkin Caddis

The forums are very quiet

The Global FlyFisher forum has existed for almost as long as the site, and the oldest posts are more than 20 years old. Forums aren't what they used to be. Social media has taken over a lot of their roles, and the GFF forum is very quiet ... to put it mildly.
We keep everything online for the sake of history, and preserve the posts for as long as possible, but as you will see, quite a few of them aren't in a good shape, but rely on old images hosted elsewhere, which are no longer available, odd codes from old systems and much more, which can't be shown in a decent way.
But the posts are here, and you can - if you insist - start new threads and reply to old ones. But don't stay awake waiting for replies, because they are unfortunately few and far apart.
Martin

Patterns

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DaiRiki 125 scud hook 14-16 or so. Hot orange ParaPost so it runs fore and aft. Small clump of fox squirrel pointing forward. Brown duck flank feather pointing forward. Pull teh whole forward mess backwards and make a head with 2-3 whip wraps. Wind twice horizontally, from the base of the butt up to the eye and over the eye and then back again, loosely basting some brown Zelon to the bottom of the fly as you go. Trim the Zelon to length. Fuss with it to get it distributed nicely. Now glue the horizontal legs in place as a final step. Almost any glue will work. I use ZapAGap. But even head cement will do it.

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