Fulling Mill Elk Wing Caddis - Tan

The hackle runs the length of the body, and that is the whole trick

Al Troth's 1957 design has outlasted nearly everything tied since, and the reason is the hackle wound the full length of the body. Those fibres hold the fly up on their tips in water that would swamp a conventional dry, which is why it is the first thing to tie on in broken pocket water and riffles. Australia has hundreds of caddis species, so tan covers a great many of them. Twitch it rather than drift it dead.