Looking a good cdc caddis dry fly

afishinado said:
The CDC & Elk is the best CDC caddis fly I know of >
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I agree. I have a love/hate relationship with CDC, once it gets water logged, I find it hard to re-float. With the CDC and Elk, though, you can use paste floatant on just the elk, and it keeps floating even after the CDC is well wetted. It's easy to tie, an I've caught a lot of fish on it.

I don't know if anybody else caught it, but this week's tie-off between Tim Flagler and Tom Rosenbauer was a CDC and Elk.


If you're looking for a really simple fly, the F-Fly works perfectly well as a caddis.

 
If you have the materials try the Iris caddis. Very easy to tie and catches fish. Also the X-caddis is simple and does very well. Change color and sizes.
 
The only dry caddis fly I have in my box is the CDC & Elk. By the way, it's tied with deer hair not elk. Only two materials required, can't get any simpler than that. I've tied them as large as size 10 down to size 18. I use the TMC 2488 to tie them. It gets tough, at least for me, to tie them smaller than size 18 even with using the 2488. For Micro-caddis, I switch out the deer hair wing for a CDC wing
 
For glass water I tie a Double Duck Caddis. Floats well. Lands gently. Picky fish will eat it.

For a high floating Caddis I am partial to blooms parachute Caddis.
 
I came across this pattern this week. i tied a few up to add to my experimentation box,

 
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