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Green Caddis Larva Soft Hackle
Hook - Mustad C49S/Size 10
Thread - 6/0 UNI-Thread (Black)
Back - Four Strands of Peacock Herl
Abdomen - Antron Lumena Yarn ("Iguana" 650/L525A)
Rib - Tying Thread (Wrapped forward in open turns to secure the the peacock herl over the back of the abdomen)
Thorax - Peacoch Herl (reinforced in thread dubbing loop)
Hackle - Ruffed Grouse (tip tyed)

Here is the insect this soft hackle is supposed to imitate:

William - I thought of this pattern as soon as I saw the "Iguana" colored yarn you sent. I took a picture of the caddis larva on one of my trips to the Adirondacks (West Branch of the Ausable River). The local rock worms have a dramatic color difference between the belly (vivid green) and back (very dark olive). I'm hopeful that this pattern will pierce some lips...smiley face/fingers crossed.

Very cool tye Ray.....i was just tying some of these the other day, but not as intricate or fancy. i just used 3 or 4 strands of bleeched and dyed (insect green), peacock herl with a gold wire rib for the bodies, and for the head stickin' out, regular peacock herl. They came out great.....i took the bodies way down past the bend. i'd put a pic up, but i can't waste what few pics spaces i have left.
btw, i thought you said you had run outta pics spaces as well............wha'd you do?

I have been uploading photos to a photosharing site (Google's free Picasa website) and linking to the images. It took some getting used to, but seems to work nicely once you get the hang of it.

Okay, now you're just showing off.

That's a seriously inventive fly--in these parts we call such larvae "stickbait," though ours are more whitish-"yaller" than green for the most part.

Wonderful, Ray. Need to tie a few of these, but tying time right now is slim. Busy, Busy ! Will show you all soon.

Mark

ok, that all sounds good.....but "HOW" do you get the pics to open automatically here..........??????? "Linking" usually means you have to send others to another place to see your pics................. Which is a hell-of-a-lot more time consumming having to make two post to accomplish what one should do.

Mark (willowhead) - All I have to do is to open the photo sharing site and click on the link that is automatically generated one the photo size has been picked (800 pixels in this case). Once I click on the link, I click Control-C (copy) and then open the editor to this site. Now click on the button called Img (which stands for image link). Now hit Control-V (paste), which enters the link to the photo. Once it is done, the photo opens automatically when the thread is opened (no second step). There are other photo sharing sites, which probably work the same way.

That does sound pretty cool.....(yet VERY time consumming).....what you've in essence done is.....create another you, (cloned yourself), with a new limit to fill, and which WILL be reached sooner or later just as the real (original), you limit was reached at a certain point.....AND added a certain amount of work time (consumming), to the entire process. THAT'S exactly what i am trying to avoid.
So, once my limit is reached.....i'll just post to my site and let ya'll know, "GO!" And even that is extra work making the second post here to let ya know..........but, under the circumstances (having to have a limit in the first place), i guess it's the best way for me to kill two birds (get it to my site and let the word out here), with one stone. i think i may just do a single post letting everyone know that if they care to, just check my site very now and then.......... and then bump it once a week..... Because having to post a notice here every time i put a fly on my site is gonna be a pain in the butt.
What's gonna be weird is when everyone here has reach his or her limit............. The worst part is having to have someone go from here to another site just to see a pic.....but your new process is avoiding that at least. How come i not surprised your doing all the work, so others don't have to.

Mark,
There is no limit to the number of photos you can post to the forum as Ray has suggested. I tried to explain this to you before. You take up less space, here, in this forum and your photos still appear, here. The image link, embeds the image in the post here, but the image is stored somewhere else.(Photobucket or the like). I put my photos in a folder of my website titled "Images". By posting the image information in the image link, I can post the same photo on a number of different forums without using up any space on the forum's server. If you post images as you have been doing, by directly uploading them to the forum, there is a limit as to how many you can do this way. There has to be, because, otherwise, everyone would be posting photos by direct upload, and taking up space on/in the forum.

Mark