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Join Bennett-Watt and learn how to make new twists on old fishing fly patterns, with focus on the Swimming Diving Caddis.

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New Twists on Old Fishing Fly Patterns - Swimming Diving Caddis The next fly we’re going to tie is the Swimming Diving Caddis again we’re going to use the traditional Caddis Scud hook that is secured it in the vise and again with this curved hooks if you pour your thread off to the side and then up and made your few starting wraps it will be a lot easier to get your threads started rather than it sliding around on you. Now for an adult swimming diving caddis we’re going to dub the body and make a little thread base there for a dubbing and try a little dubbing wax to tack up the thread and again I’m using hairs here just like our caddis pupa. Tarsier dubbing because again I don’t really think that color is does important as if you would be matching the size to the caddis that you’re seeing on the water. Get our bobbing on and we’re going to start it about really about our third of the front of the hook to tie in our wing and form our head so that the last 2/3 of the fly is going to be our body and we’re going to wrap dubbing back again about just down to the bend of the hook and we’re going to use the thread actually make our rib and to help secure the dubbing as we come back forward. And for the wing we have to a little excess dubbing sticking out and you can always just click it off with your scissors. For the wing of this fly since it is an adult we’re going to use a material called medallion sheeting. It’s a little bit like rough but it has a little bit more sheen to it. I like if you’re going to buy a thread or expensive so if you’re just going to buy one color I think the model the gray is going to cover pretty much everything you need color wise. So we’re going to cut the caddis swing of this and the easiest way to do it is to fold it in half and then cut the traditional triangle shape we’ll just cut it off square at the back and take one in a little final piece hanging on there and there we go and then open it back up. We’re going to set this right on top of the fly with the full to the top to use wraps to secure it and then wrap it down. Now we’re going to trim it to size, cut a swing usually comes to a little bit of a point in the back, that’s about all we need to do and again we’re not trying to dead on imitate anything or implying that the wing is folded back so when the caddis dives into the water of take a swim to the bottom of the a posit who lays its eggs, it appears that there’s a wing attached to the bug and then again on this fly we’re going to use a brown hen hackle and gives a fly a little bit more life and kind of imitates legs so we’re going to kind of pull back to the point where we have the link that we want to work with and I always like to start it out where my hackle is about 2/3 or ¾ of a length of my wing. We’re going to tie in our soft hackle, pull up the end an trim it off, and pull the material back again with your finger tips and make a couple of wraps forward, secure your material down with your thread and come off the excess. Now again since this is a caddis they have a pretty prominent antenna so we’re going to go back to the same material that we use on the pupa about a little thread there to kind of start the head, trim off the two over pheasant tail barbs and again we’re going to exaggerate the length of our antenna to about double the length of the wing. I really do believe and through experimentation over the years that this somewhat of a trigger factor they sieve the caddis moving quickly through the water that antenna kind of looks and it’s caddis and they eat the fly. When caddis are real active on the water or when they’re swimming diving of depositing, the trout seem to get a little bit more worked up and they do a little over bugs because I think primarily it’s the fact that the cadis are such fabulous swimmers and rather quick in the water that the fish get a little bit reckless because they know if they hesitate there meal will be going in a flash. So, caddis hatches and crease of time were cadis are of depositing on the bottom. A kind of fun times you can catch a lot of fish and a short amount of time if you have a good pattern and we’re going to finish off with half hitches and again heads on that is your choice weather or not you use it. Trim our thread, straighten up our antenna a little bit and there we have the swimming diving caddis.