Pötkylä | Fishmadman.com http://www.fishmadman.com Dry fly fishing for salmon and steelhead with Bomber dry flies - Riffling Hitch and wake fly techniques Mon, 15 May 2023 07:42:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 34674374 The Pötkylä caddis tying Instructions http://www.fishmadman.com/archives/21979 http://www.fishmadman.com/archives/21979#_comments Fri, 29 Nov 2019 15:43:48 +0000 http://www.fishmadman.com/?p=21979 From Finland, comes this fantastic fly by Janne Kuosmanen Body length is 35-40mm and the body is made from a foam cylinder - See how it is done.

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1. Tie in the hook guard.

2. Push the needle from back to front into the foam bar.

3. Take a piece of 0.30 mono and tie a simple knot to another end. Insert the line into the tubing and insert another end to the eye of the needle.

 

4. Pull the needle with the line through the foam bar. Start pushing the tubing into the foam bar and simultaneously pull the line. Gently rotate the tubing as it goes into the foam bar. Be careful not to damage the foam bar. The job can be eased by making a cone shape to the end of the tubing with a razor blade. Stop inserting tubing when it comes out of the foam bar. Apply super glue to the tubing and push the tubing into the foam bar.

5. Insert tubing onto the tying needle and shape the foam bar with scissors to a caddis-like shape.

 

6. Color the foam bar with a permanent marker. The fly can be coloured entirely with one colour, or you can colour the “body” section with, for example, green. Only imagination is the limit

 

7. Tie hackle, antennas etc., to your taste. Fly finished! Any foam bar colour can be used. White-coloured foam is quite nice because it looks hollow when coloured with a permanent marker. I’ve also used brown and yellow foam bars.

 

Janne Kuosmanen

 

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