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Hot Spot Sedgehog

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Published on Dec 3. 2019 - 5 years ago
Updated or edited 5 years ago

Caddis

Dry flies

Deer hair

One of the best little caddis patterns around. With an additional Glo Brite hot spot, when pulled through the surface film, this will bring fish up, just about all year round.

Originator

The feather bender

Originator's web site

https://thefeatherbender.com

Elk Hair Caddis - EHC

Caddis are a very important food-item for trout and grayling, and there are in fact many more species of caddis than there are mayflies.

Aug 5. 2023

Nyblom Caddis

This popular Finnish pattern, is a Goddard variant with a parachute hackle.

Jul 31. 2023

Generic Caddis

Curved elk or deer hair annoys you?
In this video i will share super easy way to align the hair so all curved hair is aligned (both tips and curvature)
Cheers
Vladimir

Mar 22. 2015

Taming the Humpy

The Humpy might be the greatest surface fly ever devised, but it also has a reputation of being difficult to tie. Learn to tame it here.

Jul 17. 2011

The CDC & Elk family

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.

Jan 1. 1996

CDC&Elk

Hans Weilenmann's classical contemporary sedge fly.

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