Tying Gary Lafontaine's Sparkle Caddis Pupa

Tying LaFontaine's Emergent Sparkle Pupa with Thread Shredder John Wood
Materials for Tying LaFontaine's Emergent Sparkle Pupa
Hey everybody, this is John Wood and I'm coming to you once again from East Rosebud Fly and Tackle in beautiful Billings, Montana. In this video, I am gonna tie for you a stable pattern, it should be in everybody's box, if you're fishing in the Rocky Mountain West, and it is Gary LaFontaine's emergent spark pupa. This is a surface caddis fly that imitates the emerging adult, and it's just... It's a spectacular fly that's based on years and years of underwater research and observation by Gary LaFontaine and his team, and it comes from... It's listed in several of his books, Caddis Flies obviously, Trout Flies, Proven Patterns, and also in the Dry Fly New Angles, but if you're gonna fish Caddis hatches and you're fishing a Caddis Hatch, you can't get them to take a curtain fly like the standard elk hair caddis is probably because they're keyed in on the mergers, this fly right here is the ticket, will do it for you, so this one we're gonna tie for you today, I'm gonna tie it on a size 16 Timeco 100 hook, just your standard dry fly hook, any standard dry fly hook will do for this by the shuck on this, and the bubble is a burnt orange antron yarn, and you can see it's a pretty bright color, the body is a combination in his mixed of bright green insect Green, antron and insect green hair dubbing.

LaFontaine's Emergent Sparkle Pupa
Hook: Standard dry, size 14-20.
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Thread: Brown, 10/0 Veevus.
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Shuck: Burnt orange, Wapsi Antron yarn.
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Abdomen: 50/50 mix of bright green Antron dubbing and insect green rabbit.
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Wing: Dark colored deer body hair.
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Head: Dark hare's mask dubbing.
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