Starling Caddis Soft Hackle

[Roadkill]

Thinking of Mother's Day...

Hook-Wholesale Fly Company M11 #14
Thread-UTC 70 Fl Chartreuse
Body- Clear .4mm Stretchy Powercord
Hackle-Starling
Bead-3/32 Black Brass

RIMG1025 by William Lovelace, on Flickr

[letumgo]

Dynamite!

[DUBBN]

Gorgeous!!

[FlyFisherMann1955]

Oh boy--so cleanly executed!

A few questions:

Did you wrap the hackle forward and tie it down behind the bead or wrap it backwards and tie it down behind the hackle? Either way, there is no trace of your thread.

Is there a wrap of the clear Powercord over bare hook at the very back of the fly to create that "hotspot" or is that just an optical illusion?

Thanks- Ken

[Roadkill]

Did you wrap the hackle forward and tie it down behind the bead or wrap it backwards and tie it down behind the hackle? Either way, there is no trace of your thread.

Is there a wrap of the clear Powercord over bare hook at the very back of the fly to create that "hotspot" or is that just an optical illusion?

Thanks- Ken

I wrapped the hackle forward and tied it down behind the bead and did a whip finish.

There is a wrap of Powercord over the bare hook to start the wraps over the back, the hotspot is an illusion created by light coming from the Powercord over the tying thread.

[ronr]

Bill will that chart. body look green when wet?

[Roadkill]

Looks Chartreuse to the naked eye all the time except to my camera under my photo studio LED light. Water and daylight keep it a nice MDC green.