

Hook: Kamasan B401 #12
Body: black mole in splitted thread
Hackle: Grey Partridge
Head: Peacock
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Mole is a very fine short soft fiber much more so than any of the ones you mentioned. It dubs very finely and can be just dusted on the waxed silk.CreationBear wrote:Very nice...I was just doing inventory on my flybox and noting that I'm really short good caddis patterns.I'm curious about your choice of mole, though: what properties does it have that make it better than, say, hare's ear or muskrat?
If you put mole in a splitted thread it keeps a kind of halo around the shank of the hook. In this fly the total body has to be of mole and peacock because the Mother's Day Caddis has peacock and mole in it: see the swap thread #15B inthe cabin chapter on this forum.CreationBear wrote:Very nice...I was just doing inventory on my flybox and noting that I'm really short good caddis patterns.I'm curious about your choice of mole, though: what properties does it have that make it better than, say, hare's ear or muskrat?