How to Tie an Olive X-Caddis

August 26, 2012 By: Marshall Cutchin

In this week’s featured fly tying video, Matt Grobert ties Craig Mathews’s very popular X-Caddis, a pattern that imitates crippled or emerging caddisflies. The key is the Z-lon shuck, which traps air bubbles and gives the pattern superb realism.