The Klinkhamer Special
or originally Light Tan Caddis
The Klinkhamer Special devised by Hans van Klinken to lure trout and grayling from Scandinavian rivers. I doubt there is a more effective fly for taking trout and grayling in fast to medium water. Tied as an emerger on a long sedge/caddis hook it is an iceberg of a fly. Hans, at first used to reshape hooks himself to give the profile he wanted. Now specialist hooks bearing his name are produced by Partridge in a couple of ranges.
I have 3 types:
Klinkhamer 15BN, and an “Extreme” version, also GRS15ST a Teflon coated version. I have also seen GRS12ST and K12ST. Not sure of the differance.
Many people use grub style hook especially in smaller sizes, but Hans has declared that using these long-shank hooks to adopt the correct profile, gives the grayling a “Jug handle to hold on to”
Initially he named it L.T. Caddis (light tan) for the simple reason that it was effective in a caddis hatch. It was in-fact renamed by Hans de Groot as the Klinkhamer Special.
It is a great search fly to be used when nothing much is showing and a change of wing post colour can help in seeing the fly in rough water. Being so buoyant it is the pattern of choice for many anglers when it comes to fishing the duo and trio techniques.
- Hook, Shaped "klinkhamer" hook.
- Thread, tan
- Body, fine synthetic dubbing. light tan in the original
- Wing, white poly yarn
- Thorax. 3 strands of peacock herl
- Hackle, original, blue dun genetic cock, parachute style.
Various methods are proposed to tie off the hackle. The main one being to use spiderwed to form the post and whip finish the thread on the post under the hackle. I leave you to choose which way suits you.
Variants are obtained by altering the body colour, post and hackle.
Any stories or variants of your own out there guys??
The Classics: Klinkhamer Special
I did purchase mayfly's on a 26, useless to me... 
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