Notes: This little peacock dry fly pattern doesn't have hackle through the body like a lot of Caddis patterns have. It just has a peacock body, a natural deer hair wing with no head sticking up with the deer hair(I cut this off and tie it down0. I then palmer 2 turns of good brown brown dry fly hackle at the eye of the hook.

I used to live in Bend, Oregon when I retired in 1993 and my neighbor Dan Bastian had a guide service in Central Oregon, called Rising Trout. He fished the Deschutes River regularly and when the caddis were hatching he would use this particular peacock caddis pattern that he and I would tie during the winter and I found that this fly would work almost anywhere a dark bodied caddis was hatching, rivers, lakes and streams. It worked tremendously well both in the Deschutes and the Crooked River which I fished often. I'm not sure if Dan originated this pattern and I know that there are similar patterns out there, but I give him credit for introducing this great little dry fly to me! I've taught this pattern to several groups over the years through CSF and have had members come back to me and telling me that they have also had success with this little fly at times, so give it a try!