William,William Anderson wrote:Blues dude, nice list, and a big welcome. Care to share a recipe or pic of your choices? I'm not familiar with the orange fish hawk and would like to hear about your cahill pattern.
My apologies been slacking on my forum visits!
I wish I could take decent pics to post but am not outfitted to do so yet. So really the cahill though not complex is likely too much description without a pic, but, the fishhawk is a piece of cake:
ORANGE FISHAWK:
#12 mustad limerick is my fav hook for this (and alot of other wets)
Orange floss body, slightly tapered back to front, with a fine gold tinsel rib, I also taper this from back to front, segments closer together then father apart as move up body, but no mor than 5-5 segments and your in.
I tie the body using orange thread, then I switch to black thread for the hackle, which is a badger hen hackle, 2-3 turns, and long enough to extend just past the body.
You can tie in the hackle first flymph style, which will enable you to get a better floss body taper, or tie it in at the end, whatever the pref.
Then finish with a 6/0 black thread head.
Damn thing has always worked for me in the spring for whatever reason. Does a good dropper too. Well, we know the orange factor is huge, and likely represents an emerging caddis, with added gold glitz. Heck even the stockers like it!
Best regards
