When it’s getting dark on the river, the caddis often become very active. It’s really fun to fish a big caddis fly surfing over the surface. Sometimes the trouts go mad and take the fly very aggressively.
I don`t want to check all the time, if the fly is floating well. The fly should float like a piece of cork all night long. That`s why I like to use materials like CDC and foam for those kind of flies. If you want to treat the fly with fly floatant, you should use a highly fluid floatant like Water Shed. Very important, Water Shed must be completely dried before fishing.
Materials:
- Hook: Maruto C47BL # 12
- Extended Body: Foam
- Wing: CDC and Moose Hock
- Top: Pheasant
- Body and Legs: CDC
- Antennae: Moos Hock
![Extended Body CDC Caddis](https://theonefly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Extended-Body-CDC-Caddis14.jpg)
Put a needle in your vise and tie a layer of thread. Very important: Use NOT a waxed thread. If you do, you may get problems pushing the finished body from the needle.
![Extended Body CDC Caddis (2)](https://theonefly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Extended-Body-CDC-Caddis-214.jpg)
Put a 3 mm wide strip of foam on the needle.
![Extended Body CDC Caddis (3)](https://theonefly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Extended-Body-CDC-Caddis-314.jpg)
Create some nice segements with your thread. If you got problems creating the body, just google „extended foam body“. There you find some nice videos.
![Extended Body CDC Caddis (4)](https://theonefly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Extended-Body-CDC-Caddis-414.jpg)
Finish the body behind the last segment with a whip finish.
![Extended Body CDC Caddis (5)](https://theonefly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Extended-Body-CDC-Caddis-514.jpg)
Pull the extended body from the needle and tie it in.
![Extended Body CDC Caddis (6)](https://theonefly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Extended-Body-CDC-Caddis-614.jpg)
With a permanent marker you can give the body a nice colour.
![Extended Body CDC Caddis (7)](https://theonefly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Extended-Body-CDC-Caddis-714.jpg)
As a wing, tie in three CDC feathers. They should be longer than the body.
![Extended Body CDC Caddis (8)](https://theonefly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Extended-Body-CDC-Caddis-814.jpg)
Over the CDC wing, you should tie in some moos hock hair in the same length like the CDC. It push the CDC down, so the wing is always flat over the body and it increases the floatability. Then tie in some fibres from a pheasant tail. Split the thread, put in some CDC and twist the the thread by rotating the bobbin. I like to work with the Petitjean Magic Tool when preparing the CDC.
![Extended Body CDC Caddis (9)](https://theonefly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Extended-Body-CDC-Caddis-914.jpg)
![Extended Body CDC Caddis (10)](https://theonefly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Extended-Body-CDC-Caddis-1014.jpg)
If necessary, repeat spinning the CDC and wind it around a second time.
![Extended Body CDC Caddis (11)](https://theonefly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Extended-Body-CDC-Caddis-1114.jpg)
Fot the antennae I used two hair of moose hock.
![Extended Body CDC Caddis (12)](https://theonefly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Extended-Body-CDC-Caddis-1214.jpg)
Pull the pheasant fibres foreward and catch it with the thread.
![Extended Body CDC Caddis (13)](https://theonefly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Extended-Body-CDC-Caddis-1314.jpg)
Spinn some CDC as dubbing around the thread and create a little head, then fold the pheasant fibres back, cut it and whip finish the fly.
![Extended Body CDC Caddis (14)](https://theonefly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Extended-Body-CDC-Caddis-1414.jpg)
To secure the thread and the pheasant use a bit of varnish or really thin uv-resin, which makes the fly very durable.
![Extended Body CDC Caddis (15)](https://theonefly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Extended-Body-CDC-Caddis-154.jpg)
Finished fly from underneath, or „the fish view“. ;-)
tight lines
Holger Lachmann