It started as a thought experiment. There are two flies, among others, that have a very good reputation in Scandinavia. These two are the "Super pupae" http://www.flyfish-scandinavia.com/superp1.jpg by Lennart Bergquist and the "Klinkhamer" http://www.rackelhanen.com/images/1149.jpg by Hans van Klinken. The good reputation they earnt by working extremely well on grayling but also with trout. My thinking was that I would be able to compose a fly using some of the characteristics of the two combined. What I came up with was something with the "Super pupae" hackle and the upright wing from the "Klinkhamer", only I replaced the poly yarn of the "Klinkhamer" with CDC.

HOOK : Dryfly
HACKLE : Brown dryflyhackle.
ABDOMEN : FlyRite light olive #15
THORAX : FlyRite dark olive #3
WING: White CDC

I start by fastening the hackle at the end of the fly, then tie in the abdomen material to about two thirds of the way toward the eye of the hook. At this point I fasten the CDC wing in an upright position. Now tie in the thorax material towards the eye of the hook but be careful to leave enough shank for the finish. Once the body material is fastened I start to wind the hackle in a palmered fashion towards the hook eye, be careful not to wind down the CDC wing. End the tying with a whip finish. Now then, the last thing to do is to cut away all the hackle from the under side of the fly and also from the upper side. Careful not to cut away the CDC wing. You should have something that looks like this.



I have never seen this version of a fly before, so I'm thinking of claiming this pattern my own   ;-)

/Roger