2.       Position the thread at the bend of the hook. Place the hair over the last wrap of thread at the bend of the hook and press the hair down over the hook surrounding the hook with the hair. Pull the thread loosely up the near side of the hook, over the top and down the back side of the hook. make another complete loop of thread over and around the hook. while holding the hair in position tighten the thread until the hair flairs. You do not want this bunch of hair to spin. If it spins it should only spin slightly. Pull the front portion of hair towards the bend of the hook and bring the thread through the hair and make one of two tight turns directly in front of the hair. With a hair packer pack and your left hand pack the hair into as tight a bunch as possible.

3.       Cut another bunch of hair and prepare as before. This bunch of hair will be spun around the shank of the hook. Place the clump of hair on the near side of the hook at about a 45 degree angle down on the eye end of the hook. This angle will create a V between the two clumps of hair. The point of the V should be at the point where the thread is hanging down. Pull the thread up the near side through this V. Make a few loose turns of thread around the hook and over the hair. Hold the hair in your left hand and begin applying pressure to the thread by pulling it towards your body. When you feel the hair pulling out of your hands slowly release the hair while continuing to apply more pressure on the thread. The hair will spin around the hook and stop when the thread is as tight as it can be on the hair and hook. Pack the hair as before and place the thread directly in front of the second clump of spun hair. Continue this process until you reach the end of the original thread base. Tie off the thread and add a drop of cement.

4.       Remove the hook from the vice and trim the under side parallel to the shank of the hook as close as you can without cutting the thread. This is done in order to give you as much room as possible to hook the fish. Trim the rest of the body in the classic caddis wing shape. The hair should be trimmed from the hook bend to the eye end sloping from the top down towards the shank of the hook. Review the photo above and try to obtain the same shape as the photo. Replace the hook in the vice and tie in a lighter weight thread.

5.       Select two dry fly hackles and strip off but do not trim the butts. Tie in the hackles on the top of the hook with the butts extending our over the eye of the hook making sure the butts do not pull down onto the sides of the hook. Tie the butts in until you get to one eye length behind the eye of the hook. The butts should end up side-by-side on the top of the hook.

6.       Wrap as many wraps of hackle as possible until you reach the area where the hackle tie down ends. Tie off the hackle with a few tight turns of thread. Lift the butts up and make two or three turns of thread in front of and touching the butts securing them in at an angle slightly up and over the eye of the hook. Pull the butts back out of the way and tie a small thread head. Trim the butt ends to the desired length and position them the way you want, add a drop of cement and you have just tied your first Goddard Caddis.