Cased Caddis

[George387]

Got my fingers off the float making & back onto the fly tying vice over the holidays, making some cased caddis for when the rivers eventually recede and I can get back out with the fly rod.







& a couple without cases.

[Hovis]

Wow those are amazing! Can I ask what you use for the casing?

[Robbi]

saw these over on FFF, they really are very good

[George387]

The casings are made from river gravel collected from the river I'm planning to fish them on, that way they will look similar to the casings on the real cased caddis flies.

[Hovis]

Do you just glue these onto a sleeve round the caddis then? Sorry for all the questions but I have been quite captivated by casting a fly.

[George387]

Do you just glue these onto a sleeve round the caddis then? Sorry for all the questions but I have been quite captivated by casting a fly.

No mate, you need to tie in the body first, in this case chamois leather, then you smear the hook in glue and coat with river gravel, as the glue dries you roll between your fingers to get a basic shape and leave to dry, Once dry you then put it back into the vice and tie in the hackle to finish off, I'm currently working on some with legs instead of hackle feathers, a bit tricky and its been a while since I done them last.

[Scott]

Superb George! Very clever!

[Hovis]

Do you just glue these onto a sleeve round the caddis then? Sorry for all the questions but I have been quite captivated by casting a fly.

No mate, you need to tie in the body first, in this case chamois leather, then you smear the hook in glue and coat with river gravel, as the glue dries you roll between your fingers to get a basic shape and leave to dry, Once dry you then put it back into the vice and tie in the hackle to finish off, I'm currently working on some with legs instead of hackle feathers, a bit tricky and its been a while since I done them last.

thank you for that George I know what you mean but think they will be beyond me. Bet the grayling love them though!

[Loop Erimder]

They look good enough to eat

[Woolly Bear]

Excellent . Kindest regs . Woolly Bear .