CDC Parachute

Hook: Tiemco 100 or 101 - standard dry fly hook

Size: 16 - 18

Thread: 8/0 tan

Tail: Wood Duck

Body: Ginger biot

Post: White CDC

Thorax: Light brown Hare's Ear

Hackle: Barred ginger

Notes: Biot bodies are not hard once you experiment and figure out how to tie it in by the tip and then wrap it to give the fuzzy rib effect.

 

This fly pattern is excerpted from Fly Fishing the Solitude-Montana.