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Old Hat got me to thinking about diving caddis with his comment on my Cottontail Flymph. I usually have fished a Leadwing Coachman or my own hair wing egg laying caddis dry that can be popped under the surface to simulate the diving adult. Here is my MDC Diving Flymph to add to my flymph boxes.

Hook- Dai Riki 070 #14
Thread- UTC 70 Rusty Brown
Egg Sac-Dark Olive Antron/Hare Dubbing
Body- Dark Hare's Ear Antron/Hare dubbing
Hackle- Whiting Dark Natural Dun Hen Saddle

Bill - I sat here studying the photo for several minutes, before I read your material list. I was sure the hackle was waterhen, before I read your recipe. Very well thought out pattern, as always. I find your flies to be inspiring. Thanks for sharing.

Roadkill, Howdy;

Bill, Looking like a killer fly.
Question, ... What /how did you create the rib effect in the Body section
when the ingredients listed are solely " Dark Hare's Ear Antron/Hare dubbing" ?

hank

I like this & the Cottontail. Bet both would work for spotted sedge in your neighborhood.

Hank,

There is no rib but I think there were some guard hairs that wound in to the dubbing to produce the lines that appear around the body. When wet the rusty brown thread may show through the body in places as well especially in the narrower body section.

Thanks for all the comments guys!

Bill

Roadkill, Howdy;

Roadkill wrote:Hank,

There is no rib but I think there were some guard hairs that wound in to the dubbing to produce the lines that appear around the body. When wet the rusty brown thread may show through the body in places as well especially in the narrower body section.

Thanks for all the comments guys!

Bill

Bill, thanks for the answer.

hank

Bill, my comment is missing on this, but I'll repeat it. I really love the lanky hackle and body composition to imitate the diving caddis. Especially with a darker underbody I bet this will do very well.

Here's my version of a Diving Caddis using all natural materials The seed. Bead is mounted on gut with Veniards head cement.

Glass is basically melted silicon, which is a naturally occurring element, so I guess you are technically accurate. I'm assuming the thread is silk. .

Being serious now, that bead probably looks more like an egg sac in the water than just about anything I can recall seeing before. Very creative.

tie2fish wrote:Glass is basically melted silicon, which is a naturally occurring element, so I guess you are technically accurate. I'm assuming the thread is silk. .

Being serious now, that bead probably looks more like an egg sac in the water than just about anything I can recall seeing before. Very creative.

The glass bead is identical to the "trade beads" used by the early settlers to pay the native Americans for the land and hides they stole! Otherwise known as "seed beads". I've actually found some of these in California at old sites.
Yes, I used silk for the thread and gut to mount the bead. The overwing is Swiss Straw or Raffia. Using beads like this is not a new idea, I've copied it, more or less, from patterns by fellow guide Jim Pettus. But this particular pattern is something that I just came up with so it's not really a classic patterns, just classic materials, but it's something that could have been tied a hundred years ago since all the materials were available then. I'm going to tie a few and see if it ends up being a working guide pattern. I'll use mono and a eyed hook! I've seen many of these egg sac's attached to rocks over the years in the margins of the river.
It snowed today here in Redding California, a rare event!
Just a sidebar, fish and game just released 600,000 juvenile Steelhead in the Lower Sac, boy, the fishing should be good in a year!