sexyloops fly tying school part 25 - CDC Mohican Mayfly

water buffalo hair from the neck as tails
you can use goat hair as well for exapmple




tie the segments as shown in the extende foam body dragon fly
http://www.sexyloops.com/index.php/ps/sexyloops-fly-tying-school-part-24-extended-foam-body-dragon-fly



the only differnce is that in this case it is one folded strip
and the tying starts at the tip of the needle



hook with thread base



tie in the tail fibres
and fix the body to the hook by the first segment



tie in two CDC feathers for wings



spin CDC in a split thread dubbing loop



and wind the CDC hackle brush around the wingbase



bring the foam forward each side of the wing
and tie it down



form a nice head

fold back the foam and whip finish in the "neck"

the finished fly

I have used this pattern rather successfully in Vulgata Ephemera and Marginata hatches.

The original Oliver Edwards pattern. Already a variant as he uses a regukar dry fly hook in his video. I tried, sort of by accident, tying it on a large Partridge CZ, and bingo. That must have been at least 10 years or more ago. I tied a few only and send one to Hans Weilenmann for his fly tiers website. http://flytierspage.com/tzuellich/mohican_mayfly.htm Hans Weilenmann is a fly tier from the Netherlands and one of the first advocates for rather simple flies I came accross. 

Mohican Mayfly tied by t.z. - picture Hans Weilenmann