DHA Tape Wing Caddis

DHA Tape Wing Caddis

This is a pattern which came from the idea of DHA Sedge

Material:

Abdomen - Deer hair and Turkey Biot

Wings - CDC and Tape Wing

Legs - Deer Hair Fiber 

Antenna - Deer Hair Fiber

Dubbing

Step by step tying instructions:

Prepare the lining on the hook

Tie down the deer hair and keep about 10mm fiber tips 1/4 from hook eye

Apply same technique like DHA Sedge, roll the deer hair to the hook to create the abdomen. tie down and trim the extra

Tie in a Turkey biot and roll the biot to continue the abdomen

Tie in the CDC

Apply the dubbing

Fold back the deer hair fiber as legs but keep 2 fiber as the antenna

Tie in the tape wing

Whip finish and the fly is ready

View from below...

A Very important tips for tying the DHA series of flies... always apply some flexement to the deer hair abdomen to sealed the air in the 'Bamboo' structure of the hair... this will make the deer hair float better and also more water resistant... 

DHA ( Deer Hair Abdomen ) Sedge

DHA ( Deer Hair Abdomen ) Sedge

Materials:

Hook - TMC 100 Dry Fly size 10-12

Abdomen - Rolled Deer Hair fibers

Thorax / body - Ostrich Palm fiber

Wings - Elk Hair

Legs - Dry fly heckle

Step by step tying instructions

Place your dry fly hook and build the backing

Spin in some dubbing ( Optional )

Tie in the deer hair

Roll the deer hair to your thread

Build the abdomen with the rolled deer hair, tie down at 1/4 from the hook eye and trim the deer hair

Tie in a pcs of Ostrich Palm fiber

Spin the fiber and trim, tie down tight

Tie down the Elk Hair as wings, trim the extra

Tie in the dry hair heckle

Spin the heckle and tie down, trim the hackle and whip finish

Completed DHA Sedge

View from below

Cheers and happy tying

A Very important tips of tying the DHA series of flies... always apply some flexement to the deer hair abdomen to sealed the air in the 'Bamboo' structure of the hair... this will make the deer hair float better and also more water resistant... 

Fishable Semi Realistic Adult Stonefly / Salmonfly

Adult Stonefly / Salmonfly

This is a simplified version of the foam Semi Realistic Adult Stonefly pattern that I tie last year. I have replace the Wing material with Vinyl Rafia material and replaced the legs with rubber legs.

Materials:

Hook - Gamakatsu S11-4L size 10-8

Tails - Grizzly hackle stem

Abdomen and body - 2mm thick close cell foam

Thorax - 1mm thick close cell foam

Belly - Dubbing

Legs - Rubber legs

Antenna - Pheasant tail fibers

Wings - Vinyl Rafia with head cement

Head and Eyes - Foam eye profile with Loon Hard head

The step by step tying instructions

Bend the hook slightly and hook through a 5-6mm width 2mm thick close cell foam

Tie down the belly portion of foam in segment

Tie in a pair of hackle stem

Tie down the top portion of the foam, follow the segment

Apply the desire colour to the abdomen with a permanent marker

Fold the foam over, tie the eye profile in figure 8 and insert a pair of Pheasant tail fiber with needle

Tie in the rubber legs and split them with dubbing

Cut a pcs of Vinyl Rafia, soak it with heavy head cement, cut to shape and tie in.

Tie in another pcs of 1mm thick foam for thorax

Fold the foam over, tie down and trim the foam, spin some dubbing on the neck. Whip finish

Colour the thorax with marker and drop a small drop of Loon Hard head as eye. 

The fly is completed

Fish see this...

Cheers..... Happy tying


The Semi realistic Stonefly pattern with biot legs and tape wing

The Semi realistic Stonefly pattern with knobed fiber legs and tape wing

If you replace the tape wing with Elk hair... you get spent wing Stonefly

Salmonfly

Semi Realistic Dragonfly Nymph

Semi Realistic Dragonfly Nymph

This is a fishable Semi Realistic Dragonfly nymph that I developed in 2009... the nymph was tied with a commercial transparent acrylic doubled side tape.

Materials:

Hook - Gamakatsu S11-4L size 8

Inner body - lead wire, foam and 3M surgery tape

Tail - Biot

Abdomen and body - Transparent Acrylic double sided tape, dubbing

Legs - Turkey wing fibers

Wing case - Tape wing

Thorax - Transparent Acrylic double sided tape

Eye profile - Transparent Acrylic double sided tape

Colour - Promarker

The step by step tying instructions

Tie in lead wire at both side of the hook, secure with thread and tape it with surgery tape

Lay another pair of lead wire and add a short slim psc of foam at both side to create a taper body

Cover the lining with surgery tape again, tie down and apply colour to the tape ( the tape act as a good base for colouring )

Tie in th tail. Cut 2 pcs of double sided tape, apply some dubbing so the tape won't be too sticky and easier to handle

Lay the double sided tape, press it firmly, tie it down in segment

Tie down the abdomen about 3/4 of the hook length and trim the double sided tape. Colour with marker

Tie in 3 pairs of knobed fiber legs and split the legs with dubbing

Tie in the wing case ( Tape wing )

Tie in another pcs of dubed double sided tape as thorax

Fold the tape and tie down about 3mm away from the hook eye.

Fold the tape over tie down to create the head

Tie in figure 8 to create the eye profile

Dub the neck and whip finish. Apply colour to the thorax and head

Drop 2 small drop of Loon Hard head as eyes or you may even coloured it with marker.

Cheers and have fun tying