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CDC & Elk video
CDC & Elk Brilliant pattern by Hans Weilenmann. CDC & Elk is one that should be found in all boxes when you are going to fish in places with caddisflies. Fast to tie, floats well and has a good low floating caddis profile. Add to that another high floating pattern and you’re good to go…
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Quill Gordon
This fly named after the legendary Catskill fisherman Theodore Gordon is still one of the most well known dry flies around the world. Inspired by the British dry flies of the period the pattern uses the same components but adds a segmented body made from stripped peacock quill and wings from wood duck feathers as…
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Dette Coffin Fly
Catskill region in America has a unique history when it comes to dry flies. Many famous patterns and tyers originate from the river banks of the Catskill rivers and some of the best known belong to the Dette family.
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Superpupa
Superpupa Developed by the Swedish fly tyer Lennart Bergqvist in the late 1970’s Superpuppan has become a worldwide phenomenon and one of the best known flies in Scandinavia. This fly is supposed to imitate a caddis pupa swimming in the surface at dark and to make a similar pattern to the water surface. But it…
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Semi-realistic Golden Stonefly Dry Fly
Semirealistic Foam Golden Stonefly dry fly I was fortunate enough to get to fish the Deschutes river this spring when the big salmonflies and golden stones were hatching and tied quite a lot of different kind of large stoneflies for the trip. We don’t have as large stoneflies here in Finland and good stonefly hatches…
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Goddard Caddis Parachute
Caddis Probably the most used dry fly in Finland at the moment. It is so popular that it’s usually referred to just with the name Caddis. Basically it’s a parachute variation of the Goddard Caddis developed by John Goddard and Cliff Henry (Originally G&H Sedge). Here in Finland the fly(parachute variation) is usually contributed to…
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February Red Stonefly Dry Fly
The February Red stonefly When the temperature rises for the first times above zero and the sun starts shining it means that the spring is finally here in Finland. It also means that we are going to get the first stonefly hatch of the season on our rivers. The February Red Taeniopteryx Nebulosa hatches are…