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The Pötkylä caddis tying Instructions
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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