Cheech’s favorite caddis dry fly!

The Palomino Caddis has been one of our most popular dry fly patterns for the past several years (Palomino Caddis), but that doesn't mean that we stopped thinking of ways to improve it. We fish the palomino caddis before, during, and after caddis hatches, and it seems to have a great hatch matching and attracting quality. I think part of the reason for these updates to the pattern is that we have been floating our local river quite a bit, and high buoyancy is an absolute must. We added another piece of CDC, some flash to the hook shank, and most importantly, we used the Daiichi 1130 which has a slight offset so it hooks really nicely when the fish slash at it (as they tend to do during a caddis hatch. One of my favorite ways to fish it is to cast out, and slightly skate it right when it hits the water, then I dead drift it until the end of the drift, or until it gets devoured by a fish with an appetite bigger than its brain.

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[MrArcher]

My cat and I jammed out to this video 12 times in a row!

[SixkSikxSix]

Tied this last night, used red body instead of peach and poly yarn for the wings. Bluegill was tearing this pattern up!

[flyguy]

Maybe not my top choice, but definitely top 5

[Fishyflys-rg]

Was the second material you used cdc? I would like to tie this pattern up!

[deanreevesii]

I know nothing about Fly Tying (besides what I saw in Hannibal). I don't care much about fishing, and fly fishing always looked wildly too hard to learn.

I will, however, always stop on a video playing Black Keys, and thank them for playing me some Black Keys!

[randyeggleston]

Everyone gives Cheech shit about like everything in the world. I don’t dry fly fish at all. But did he actually tie this, if so is he able to catch anything with it?!! I know I’m a newcomer and everything but I just had to join in, I hope that’s okay cause it seems like the camera man catches all the shit in my opinion!!! I’m just kidding of course. That’s bad ass man.