Dyret

The Dyret is Norwegian for "the animal," and it earns the name. Gunnar Bingen crossed two patterns to build it, the Super Pupa and the Devil Bug.

One was missing something and the other kept falling apart, and crossing them fixed both.

The deer hair keeps this fly floating through rough, broken water that drowns most dries, and it keeps the thing visible when everything else disappears in the chop.

But I trim the palmered hackle flat underneath so the body settles down into the film instead of perching on top.

It still rides high enough to see in fast water, but it sits low like a real caddis stuck in the surface, which is what the trout are actually eating.

I tie the body in insect green because that's what the naturals mostly are on my water, but the Dyret takes color well.

Grey and yellow both fish, and a black body is the one to reach for after dark.

Materials

• Hook: TMC 100, 10-16
• Thread: Uni 6/0 tan
• Tail & Head: Deer hair
• Palmer hackle: Brown cock feather
• Dubbing: Rabbit, insect green

Fish it upstream through the fast water and let it bounce. The takes come hard where the current breaks, and if the trimmed body is sitting too flush in the flatter tailouts, a little floatant on the deer hair perks it back up.