CDL winged soft hackle

[ronr]

Last summer I watched Old Hat working on a new pattern that utilized a Cog de Leon wing and hackle.
I don't know what he was attempting to create and got the impression it was a work in progress.
I took a stab at it and it made me think of a couple applications.

It might be a small caddis, a midge emerger, or maybe the small winter stoneflies we get out here.

Here's my take on your fly Carl and a couple prototypes of a winter stone imitation.

[DOUGSDEN]

Ronr,
Your interpretations are beautiful! So crazy buggy looking! I'm thinking small caddis (emerger?). Carl's tying is out of this world good! I was just looking at some patterns that he sent me a while back! Wow! They are precision! Yours are the same way! Very pleasing to our eyes and also to the fishes!
Great job friend! Please keep them coming!
Dougsden!

[letumgo]

I would fish those with complete confidence. Wonderfully buggy!

[Roadkill]

I like the sparser top left fly of the trio, and might try a little larger body in brown or black for little snow flies.

http://www.troutnut.com/specimen/1029

[ronr]

Bill, what my poor camera work doesn't show is the black thread bodies on the little stones...Brown would be good for sure...

[Boarmountain]

i tie a dry fluttering caddis version

[ronr]

Boarmountain... I like that fly. The wing certainly favors the caddis whether tied as a dry or in my case a cripple caddis, or emerger, or as Craig Mathews describes one of his flies "as possibly an caddis, mayfly, or stonefly cripple or emerger" its covering most of the bases.

[letumgo]

Mike - Can you share the recipe for your fly? I need to try these.

[Boarmountain]

Hook of your choice
Tag- green silk
Body- pheasant tail fibers
wing- CDL fibers Dark pardo
hackle- speckled badger

Change color to suit

[letumgo]

Thanks Mike.