Tying a Small Chunky Caddis Pupa by Davie McPhail.

Tying a Small Chunky Caddis Pupa by Davie McPhail.

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Sports

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• Fly
• Fishing
• FlyTying
• Small
• Chunky
• Caddis
• Pupa
• Nymph
• Davie
• McPhail.

[krallmi48]

Hello Davie, I'm wondering if you tie these in other colors?

Mike

[DavieMcPhail]

Hi krallmi48,

There's a few colours that you could tye this fly, here is a list of some of the most useful; cream, yellow, golden olive, light olive , medium olive, dark olive, brown olive, beige, tan, light brown, fiery brown, dark brown, amber, claret and even black.I like to use the lightest colour for the body then a darker colour for the thorax...I hope this is of some help to you...

All the best Davie

[derek38fishing]

Hi Davie. I'm in a flyfishing club in Ireland (Southeast), and for the winter months a group of us meet every Monday evening to tie some flies. After a summer kick-sampling event we were amazed at how lifelike this pattern is when compared to caddis pupae found on one of our rivers. We intend to tie up some of these patterns along with the pheasant tail caddis pupa pattern, but we cannot obtain the bleached and dyed peacock hearl. We tried ebay but without success. Can you send link to supplier?

[DavieMcPhail]

Hi derek38fishing,

I have sent you a couple of links to sites that sell bleached and dyed herl, I hope this helps you and your friends...

All the best Davie

[bkasten9]

Awesome fly! Can someone please forward me the link to the lead tape as well?

[DavieMcPhail]

Hi bkasten9,

I have sent you a link to the Scotch Tape 420...ATB Davie

[krallmi48]

@DavieMcPhail

It is helpful, Davie. It reminds me I'm supposed to know more than I do about the bugs in my water. I'm slam up against the base of the east side of the Rocky Mountains... not flat, not mountain. The water is not small but it crashes pretty good. There are all sorts of bugs we don't have (smaller number of the varieties). I'll have to see if I can find some applicable references.

Thanks for your help, Davie... I appreciate it.

Mike

[particlepete1]

Amazing , keep expecting it to twitch its that realistic.

[derek38fishing]

@derek38fishing Thanks Davie, I've ordered some, and some other stuff! Many thanks.

[renaizzance]

Amazing work! Thanks for taking the time to share!