Larry - an EHC is still a go-to dry for me and for what it's worth:
I tie the hackle in by the hook bend and go once forward. Whiting and other
modern hackle seems to have a barb density great enough that one pass is
sufficient.
I don't use wire rib for a couple reasons. First, I don't use a fly long
enough that it would matter if a trout's teeth cut the stem. They're quick and
easy to tie and I'll just tie on a new fly if the hackle gets cut. Also, I
don't like adding copper wire to a dry fly if I can avoid it.
Kev> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:53:19 -0600> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
[email protected]> Subject: [VFB] caddis> > Tying question. I have been looking
at several sites showing tutorials> for tying an elk-hair caddis. Most of them
show the hackle being tied> in at the front of the dubbing (toward the eye of
the hook), then> palmered back to the top of the bend, then forward (through
the hackle> now in place) toward the eye, and the starting point of the hackle.
Do> you-all subscribe to this back-then-forward method, or do any of you tie>
the hackle in at the top of the bend of the hook and make only one pass> (back
to front) with the palmering? What is the rationale for your> choice??> Do you
include a wire rib to wrap over the hackle?> Enquiring minds, etc.> > Larry
Johnson> Springville, Utah>
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