Making a Cased Caddisfly

Case is made using a tip from turkey feather quill, burnt with a flame

 

A heated bodkin is used to burn a hole for the fish hook

 

The hook is bent into shape

 

Thin strips of fly tying foam are secured onto the hook

 

Segmenting the foam to create the abdomen

 

The legs on this fly are plastic coated micro-stainless steel wire used in the bead jewelry trade. I'll try anything once.

 

Caddis pupa body is completed

 

A lighter flame was quickly touched on the tips of the legs to melt the plastic away from the wire core, and coloring was applied to the foam

 

A few layers of tinted flexible acrylic varnish and colored markers,
and the pupa is inserted into the turkey quill

 

He looks feisty to me, and tasty to trout

 

And another one

 

A nice little collection of bugs

 

I enjoyed making these bugs

I used rolled papaya bark paper for the case on this caddis,
as well as micro-turf from a model railroad supply shop

 

A cool looking realistic cased caddis fly

 

Another realistic cased caddis, luckily they don't take long to make

 

I deliberately created a window on the side of the case allowing a view inside

Realistic Flies
Fishing Flies

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