Do we need another caddis nymph? Oh yeah, you need this Gill Ribbed Caddis Larva!

[@charleshutcheson2506]

Matt, how about a video dedicated to your fly fishing library? What titles, what authors, which books are interesting, and which ones are foundational? Or, if you’d prefer, say you had to sell your books, which are the last ones you’d part with and why? I love fly fishing, but a close second is reading a good fly fishing book. Thanks

[@SavageFlies]

Charles- great idea! I'll put a "tying library" video in the works. In the meantime, I'll try to give you a glimpse of my bookshelf in Tuesday's video. Thanks for the note!

[@bigdaddy99929]

Yep. KISS is just what I like. 😁Have a fabulous weekend. Thx Matt.

[@SavageFlies]

Thanks Clyde! Hope you had a great weekend too. :-)

[@tubbyguyoutdoors]

Morning Matt ! Beauty tie as always sir ! Have a great day

[@jeffjackson5331]

Morning bud.

[@SavageFlies]

Appreciate it Tubby! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)

[@MyItalians]

Good morning Matt. Again, simple is better sometimes. This one is one of those. I may have to make a row of them myself.

[@SavageFlies]

Go for it Nich! I think Tuesday's pattern is going to be another simple one. I'm thinking of a terrestrial since we're only a couple months away from the ants and beetles coming out. :-)

[@billh4802]

Looks like a winner, thanks Matt!

[@SavageFlies]

Appreciate it Bill! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)

[@dankochanek8056]

My favorite hatch out here in the Rockies is the Mothers Day hatch on the Arkansas. This bug will be perfect for the morning. Thanks for sharing.

[@SavageFlies]

That sounds like a blast Dan! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)

[@RustyWillet]

Another good looking pattern Matt, 👍

[@SavageFlies]

Appreciate it Rusty! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)

[@ybarrajc]

Absolutely need this in my trout box, Thanks for sharing Matt have a blessed day my friend.

[@SavageFlies]

Appreciate it! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)

[@marshallbaldwin8960]

This is a Great and simple caddis pattern. Thank you Sir Matt. Have a great weekend. Fish On!

[@SavageFlies]

Appreciate it Marshall! Hope you had a great weekend too. :-)

[@joutdoorsmen23]

Another awesome cool fly Matt, I’m sure the price of the book just when up 💯 now lol that should catch them for sure

[@SavageFlies]

Hahaha! I might have just bought the last cheap used copy. :-)

[@albertan9386]

Thanks Matt. Eric Leiser's Complete Book Of Fly Tying and Complete Book of Fly Patterns are classics that belong on many fly tiers book shelf. I love the channel.

[@edwardchavez5627]

Good Morning Sir Matt, good looking Caddis Nymph this morning, I'm definitely going to ty some of these up. I like the peacock herl rib. Have a great weekend Matt and Thanks again Sir. 😊

[@SavageFlies]

Thank you Edward! I hope you had a great weekend too. :-)

[@edwardmlotkiewicz2343]

Great fly pattern. They simulate the ryhacophilia (green sedge caddis).I tie them using copper wire, multiple strands of peacock herl forming the body and head and green floss as a carapace shell over the top of the herl allowing the herl to show as legs. I then wrap the wire over the floss to secure it behind the head and tie off the wire, whip finish. Thanks again for another great video.

[@SavageFlies]

Great idea Ed! I like the sounds of your pattern.

[@lincolnparmer9708]

Great Pattern, Great Book. Those guys were ahead of their time!! Thanks Matt

[@SavageFlies]

Absolutely Lincoln! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)

[@jimgollach6202]

Hey Matt! I tie a pattern very similar to this one, in three different colors, believe me, the fish like them. Enjoyed watching. 👍

[@SavageFlies]

Cool to hear Jim! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)

[@diecastrejuvenation7779]

This is an excellent fly for my grandsons to start tying with. Thanks Matt!

[@SavageFlies]

Outstanding to hear Troy! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)

[@Swamp-Fox]

Great looking nymph! I am a book nerd as well. I think I will pick up a copy of that book!

[@SavageFlies]

It's definitely a good one to have! Good luck my friend. :-)

[@flyflung]

That looks like it would be productive. Thanks for the video.

[@crowdaddy8355]

Awesome caddis fly. I ordered my copy of the book today. Thanks Matt. Enjoy your weekend.

[@SavageFlies]

Great to hear Chad! I think you're going to like it. :-)

[@burtonbrocious171]

Looks like a winner matt tks 😊

[@SavageFlies]

Appreciate it Burt! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)

[@kenb4685]

Nice looking fly Matt. Thankyou.

[@SavageFlies]

Appreciate it Ken! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)

[@leemowers9395]

Great looking caddis fly larva, Thanks Matt for sharing the video, very clean, neat tie, well done my friend.

[@SavageFlies]

Well thank you Lee! I appreciate the note my friend. :-)

[@johnnylightning1491]

Another nice simple one Matt. I'm doing a little catch up I was at Talladega Speedway last Friday so I was pretty busy. Keep the good stuff coming.

[@tompeterson559]

Another excellent, simple fly. Outstanding!

[@SavageFlies]

Appreciate it Tom! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)

[@davehall2160]

Good one, Matt. Definitely see this one catching fish Thanks for the video, Matt, and I hope you have a great weekend

[@SavageFlies]

Appreciate it Dave! Hope you had a great weekend too my friend. :-)

[@bobhammond8067]

Another slick fly. I bet it is indeed a great fish getter!!!

[@SavageFlies]

I hope so Bob! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)

[@ZacharyBobbie1611]

Awesome video Matt! Thank you for sharing! I just tied my first ever fly yesterday! It was a Bead Head Larvae 🐛.

[@SavageFlies]

Outstanding to hear Zachary! And welcome to the sport my friend. You're going to love it. :-)

[@chasselynch5733]

Beautiful fly Matt!

[@SavageFlies]

Appreciate it Chasse! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)

[@laytonmarvin3790]

Awesome pattern, the peacock rib really sets this off. Thanks Matt and have a fantastic weekend.

[@SavageFlies]

Appreciate it Layton! It was a nice laid back weekend here. Horse shows down in Virginia so no fishing but that's okay, the weather was terrible. :-)

[@dano956]

I will definitely fish this nymph. Also love the music.

[@SavageFlies]

Thank you Danny! I appreciate the feedback my friend. :-)

[@barbaraemerich1921]

Great looking fly Matt! Thank you! I’m going to try this one out!!

[@SavageFlies]

Go for it Barbara! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)

[@jimholland1592]

Good morning Matt, That is amazing, I love it so simple but I am guessing a real fish catcher👍

[@SavageFlies]

I hope so Jim! I'm just looking forward to the sulphur hatch and terrestrial season. I'm tired of getting skunked around here. :-)

[@FlyTyer1948]

Excellent pattern, Matt. You can never have too many caddis options.

[@SavageFlies]

Absolutely Bob! And you know, until reading the first chapter of La Fontaine's book, I never realized that the humble caddis had been neglected so much for the last hundred years. But when I started looking back, it doesn't show up near as often in my really old books as do all sorts of mayfly patterns. I'm definitely learning a lot from both of these books.

[@FlyTyer1948]

When I first started fly fishing, the streams locally in MA had a lot of mayflies as well as caddis. However, when I started on the “fly fishing only” part of the Penobscot, I found that caddis & sometimes stoneflies were the predominant insects. Mayfly patterns worked but weren’t the most effective most of the time. That suited me just fine, since they were (to me) more fun to watch in or out of the water. :-)

[@richardjones2129]

Nice caddis pattern. Definitely looks fishy, so I reckon I'll have to have a row n my flybox. Thanks Matt for another great fly! I'm partial to the peacock hurl rib. Keep them coming! God Bless n Fish on!

[@SavageFlies]

Well thank you Richard! I appreciate the note my friend. :-)

[@hankremer6606]

Simple. Nice tie!

[@SavageFlies]

Appreciate it Hank! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)

[@fabulousrobert6607]

I can already see catching a lot of nice fish on this one 😃👍🏼 bueno

[@SavageFlies]

Appreciate it Robert! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)

[@Jd-yc3gw]

Good morning Matt. I think a row of those will be going into my box as well. Not sure how well they will stand up though. I might try putting some krazy glue down before the herl rib on some to see if it makes any difference in durability. That book looks like a good pick up. Just got hit with hopefully our last winter storm. Our yard is white again but looking ahead to next week that will be gone in short order. Looking forward to getting on the water. Take care Matt and have a great weekend.

[@SavageFlies]

Oh man, snow again?? We had some odd weather this weekend. Over 90 degrees on Friday, rainy Saturday and a kind of chilly 60 degrees today. As for the durability of this one, a couple people mentioned putting UV resin down on the body before the herl, and then seeing if it would be more secure after hardening it. You'd think it would have to be a bit more durable like this. Might be worth trying!

[@Jd-yc3gw]

@@SavageFlies I tied a half dozen. 3 with glue and 3 without. We’ll see if it makes a difference…..now hopefully I can remember which are which when I use them. 😀

[@patgentile8521]

Awesome fly Matt thanks for letting us know about the books you find these Flys in

[@SavageFlies]

You bet Pat! That's one of the most fun things with tying... digging up old patterns from obscure and often forgotten books. Thanks for the note my friend. :-)

[@whathohoratio1842]

Matt, I don’t want to tell you how to do your job, but you definitely need to read “Pocketguide to Upper Midwest Hatches” by Ann R. Miller. Really fantastic book (especially for us Michigan anglers) with pictures, descriptions, and tying recipes for about 150 bugs.

[@SavageFlies]

No worries... I love hearing about new books! Miller is definitely a new one for me. But, I just ordered a copy. It'll be here Tuesday. :-)

[@whathohoratio1842]

@@SavageFlies hope you enjoy :)

[@pc5439]

Good looking fly Matt, if trout are wanting to be tight lip, green is my favorite go to color. Most riverbeds are covered with moss and matching the bottom color usually triggers bites, don't know why it really works, but it beats a skunk, whenever other color pattern seems to fail.

[@SavageFlies]

No doubt Phil! I break out the egg patterns or San Juan Worms if I'm about to go home with a skunk. :-)

[@jeffjackson5331]

Neat fly

[@SavageFlies]

Appreciate it Jeff! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)

[@jeffjackson5331]

@@SavageFlies you are very welcome

[@RT42069]

This should work well in early spring, right before the grannom hatch

[@chili1593]

Nice one

[@DB-iu8yl]

I liked this one so much I watched it twice. Great little fly. I’ve tied something similar with yarn. Maybe I need to get a couple colors of floss. Do you have any additional color suggestions? Cream, yellow and tan.

[@SavageFlies]

Hahaha! I appreciate that. I can tell you, that yellow, red and green are the most common floss colors I use. One thing I do is buy a multi-pack of floss every year or so. Now the brown and silver may last a pretty long time as I rarely use them, but this is a pretty economical pack. flyshack.com/DisplayItem.aspx?ItemID=23422

[@jack_batterson]

Looks great. I think I might try to sneak some wire weight onto the hook shank....and maybe a bead. Could you twist the herl around a piece of wire to strengthen it? Or use a dubbing loop? And down the rabbit hole I go........

[@SavageFlies]

Hahaha! Yep, I go down the rabbit hole all the time too. :-) And now that you mention it, I'll bet leaving a long tag of thread and spinning that with the herl would be an easy way to make this more durable. But will you lose some of the gill effect by twisting the herl with thread? I don't know, maybe a little. But still worth a try!

[@jamesvatter5729]

I wonder, in this day and age of UV resins, if you could put a thin coat on the floss before wrapping the herl gills? Could it eliminate the need for the counter rib?

[@ceesbouma2776]

Yes i have the same idee because after 1 catch i also think that the herl is broken. Aniway it is a nice patern and nice tying 👍

[@FlyTyer1948]

How about adding the herl over the resin & then drying it with the light? The embedded herl couldn’t be broken that way. I used to do this with Sally Hansens before UV resins came out. I would be tempted to add the wire or some narrow Flashabou as an attention getter though even if reinforcement isn’t needed.

[@ceesbouma2776]

@@FlyTyer1948 I think a good manner

[@SavageFlies]

All- I think these are great ideas. Are you thinking, like Bob mentioned, to put the UV resin down, then wrap the herl, and THEN harden it? That would be a pretty cool trick that I've never seen done. You might have come up with a revolutionary idea Jim! I'm going to give it a try. :-)

[@ceesbouma2776]

@@SavageFlies yes, good to read.

[@joeduca8582]

Ha! Most of my memories of illustrations from that era are in black & white 😂. Awesome pattern, from the thumbnail I thought the body was a dyed biot. I imagine ostrich herl could be used as a rib too, and maybe metallic embroidery floss or the many iridescent threads for the body for that peacock sheen. I like the hook used in the book, think I've seen it before, any idea what the brand/model is? Thanks Matt! 🤓👍

[@SavageFlies]

I'll have to look at the model number when I get home but I'm pretty sure it was a Saber barbless klinkhammer from the Fly Shack. These are supposedly cheap hooks but I use them all the time and never had any issue with sharpness or with them breaking. (The Saber hooks in general I mean.)

[@joeduca8582]

@@SavageFlies Cool, but I meant the hook used in the BOOK :o) looks like a Gamakatsu C12U Caddis hook. I have klinkhammer hooks from Daiiachi. I think I have Saber egg hooks I bought at Dick's, red wing or black bird they were called. That was ages ago, inexpensive but sharp as hell, strong too! I couldn't debarb them with my needle nose pliers. I used them for drop shotting panfish when I fish the "dark side"I wanted to tie flies with them but never got around to it, plus I couldn't pinch the barb :o( and when I went to buy more the price went way up. PU on that, I got too much stuff anyway. Thanks for the quick reply 👍 Have a great weekend!

[@oldsmugglerflyfishing]

A killer pattern

[@SavageFlies]

Appreciate it! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)

[@invention-tb4os]

Great fly, looking to tie a bunch for myself now. I was looking for this floss but couldn’t find any called caddis green. Is that the exact color name? Thanks!

[@michaeljmckinnon2960]

beauty

[@SavageFlies]

Appreciate it Michael! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)

[@harryjoesather6539]

😎

[@cyguy8577]

Hey Matt! How did these work on the Savage River? As soon as my cat decides to give me back my Peacock 🦚 Herl I’ll tie some up. Keep up the great work!