Emerging Caddis

[Ian]

You being in PTA, I assume mainly use for yellows?

[Gerrit Viljoen]

You being in PTA, I assume mainly use for yellows?

No no,u can use this pattern for Trout too.This pattern originated in the states where they fish for Trout just as we do.

Depending on the specie,u will have to change the body color and or maybe a darker wing.

Stick to olive and cream for the body.That will cover most situations.

G

[poppernel]

HI Gerrit,

Yet another very good fly, see, this is what the forum missed in your absence. Keep them rolling bru.

Dave

[Gerrit Viljoen]

Very nice Gerrit, loving your contributions!
Rob

HI Gerrit,

Yet another very good fly, see, this is what the forum missed in your absence. Keep them rolling bru.

Dave

Thanks guys

G

[smallstreams.co.za]

Hi Gerrit, nice pattern - will tie a few for the season, guarenteed. Question though, why clip the wing? Would it not be better to have the tips of the hair form the wing?

[Gerrit Viljoen]

Hi Gerrit, nice pattern - will tie a few for the season, guarenteed. Question though, why clip the wing? Would it not be better to have the tips of the hair form the wing?

Quite correct Mario,I did clip them but only a bit.I kid u not,only about a 1mm.

The thing with Antelope hair is that almost the whole strand is hollow.My cutting was just to straighten them slightly.U should really check out these hairs.

But as u say,if I straightend the hair properly in the beginning,I would not have had to cut them,basicly a small tying error.It won't effect the effectiveness of the fly though.

Check out the hollow hair.Almost right to the tips.

[ShaunF]

Hi Gerrit, nice pattern - will tie a few for the season, guarenteed. Question though, why clip the wing? Would it not be better to have the tips of the hair form the wing?

Mario,

I use a lot of this antelope hair. You can get it from BearlodgeAngler. It is honestly the best hair for spinning that I have ever used.

However, the environment where this antelope comes from is very steep and rocky, and as a result, you'll find that most of the tips of the hairs are damaged. You can clearly see this in Gerrit's photo above. This makes it pretty useless for stacking, hair wings etc.

For a pattern like this one that Gerrit has tied, I think he'd be better off using another type of hair with a nice tips, that could be nicely stacked to form the wing.

[Gerrit Viljoen]

You can clearly see this in Gerrit's photo above.

Yip ur right.

Or,u can carefully select or pick out the nice ones which is quite time consuming. (Which I didn't do)

G

[ShaunF]

Yip ur right.

Or,u can carefully select or pick out the nice ones which is quite time consuming. (Which I didn't do)

G

Nee man ! That sounds like hard work. Use this stuff for spinning bodies etc, and use another hair for collars, wings etc and you'll get a much better result, I promise you !

Just an edit, I prefer hairs that don't flair too much for hair wings. Thinks like Elk, Comparadun etc work best for me.

[smallstreams.co.za]

... the environment where this antelope comes from is very steep and rocky, and as a result, you'll find that most of the tips of the hairs are damaged. You can clearly see this in Gerrit's photo above. This makes it pretty useless for stacking, hair wings etc.

Did see that, thought he was hard on his hair

For a pattern like this one that Gerrit has tied, I think he'd be better off using another type of hair with a nice tips, that could be nicely stacked to form the wing.

Why stick to deer/hair? Snowshoe, treated Z-lon etc. For many of my Adult Caddis pattern I use a treated (hydrostop) Z-Lon wing - work magic!!!

I should really bring my tying stuff to work!! Now use trying to tie at home nowadays - too busy being domesticated