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F&K Caddis
This caddis pattern has a great profile and an hot spot that can attract fish. It's been very successful for the originator, South African Korrie Broos.
Here is a pattern that I developed a couple of years ago, that have caught many fish for me.
This has become my number one caddis fly. If you look at the fly in the water, reflection in the surface film makes me believe this is one of the reasons why the fly is so successful.
It gives double the normal "profile" for the fish to zoom in, plus you have the added advantage of the hotspot, which is a great attractor for the fish. The F&K Caddis can imitate an emerging, hatching, trapped caddis, with the submerged abdomen.
F&K Caddis
Emerger
Korrie Broos
brook trout
rainbow trout (landlocked)
Hook
Dry fly bent to grub style or just a plain grub hook in the sizes 12 to 18
Hot spaot/tag
Fluro orange or Fluro green thread
Thread
Dark brown
Body
2 to 3 peacock herl and grizzly to red hackle. Stroke hackle back, so that the hackle fibers are perpendicular to stalk. Thin copper wire (optional)
Wing
4 CDC feathers tip tops lined up. (colours from light tan to almost black)
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