{"id":1351,"date":"2017-05-05T13:38:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T02:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/fly-tying-24-may-the-simple-elk-hair-caddis\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T19:56:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:56:05","slug":"fly-tying-24-may-the-simple-elk-hair-caddis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/fly-tying-24-may-the-simple-elk-hair-caddis\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Elk Hair Caddis Fly Tying 24 May 2017 –"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Notes from our instructor \u00a0(Lyall)<\/i><\/p>\r\n

This month, we kicked off at 7:00 pm with a few basic techniques for beginning fly tiers then at 7:30 we began tying a simple Elk Hair Caddis. \u00a0No matter what style of fly fishing I am doing in Canberra or it’s surrounds, I always have an Elk Hair Caddis in my fly box.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Materials list:<\/p>\r\n

Hook: size 10 ,\u00a02 x long, light weight hook (doesn’t have to be dry fly but must not be heavy)<\/p>\r\n

Thread: tan 8\/0 or 6\/0<\/p>\r\n

Body: polyester yarn (hard to find in fly shops). Substitute Sullivan’s Nylon Knitting Ribbon available at Lincraft sewing shops. \u00a0I paid $5 for ninety metres so have enough to tie 1,800 Caddis so everyone is welcome to a metre!!!<\/p>\r\n

Hackle: palmered brown and\/or black hackle (preferably cock hackle which will retain its structure rather than hen which will pulse while stripping)<\/p>\r\n

Wing: elk body hair, natural brown colour<\/p>\r\n

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keyword dryfly<\/p>\r\n

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Notes from our instructor \u00a0(Lyall) This month, we kicked off at 7:00 pm with a few basic techniques for beginning fly tiers then at 7:30 we began tying a simple Elk Hair Caddis. \u00a0No matter what style of fly fishing I am doing in Canberra or it’s surrounds, I always have an Elk Hair Caddis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fly_tying"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7aQnH-lN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5907,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/5907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}