World Championship Winning Flies: Howard Croston's Jig Back Caddis

Signature Tyer Howard Croston sits down at the vise to add to our "World Championship Winning Flies" series. For this fly tying tutorial Howard walks us through one of his most famous patterns, his Cased Caddis Jig Back. This fly was originally designed for fishing deep and slow in cold winter conditions for grayling. It's intended to bring down the cast and help anchor smaller, lightweight nymphs close to the bottom. This fly, however, is designed to look like a cased caddis so it also gets plenty of eats from fish in it's own right. This nymph pattern is tied in size 12, but you can tie them both bigger and smaller to suit your river and water depth. For those who are wondering, this fly is tied to hide all its extra weight, which makes it legal by international competition fishing rules.

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Howard Croston is a World Fly Fishing Champion (2019) and member of the English International Fly Fishing team. He’s also the Global Brand and Product Manager at Hardy. As one of our Signature Tyers Howard is constantly innovating new flies, and has many proven trout fly patterns in our collection. A brilliant angler and tyer, we're thrilled to have Howard and his expertise as part of the Fulling Mill team.

00:00 Introduction To Howard Croston's Jig Back Caddis Nymph
01:14 Howard starts the fly
01:42 Laying a bed of super glue
02:05 Attaching a tungsten Jig Back
02:37 Chang your thread
02:57 Attaching our Nymph Rap
05:09 Why Howard makes sure to cover the entire Jig Back
07:07 Optional: cover the fly in resin
07:24 Adding a Tactical Microflash collar
08:05 Adding legs to the caddis pattern
09:34 Another wrap of Tactical Microflash Dubbing

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