Peter Charles wrote in
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Looking for photos of real caddis pupea of the more common genera like
Hydropsyche, Cheumatopsyche, and Rhyacophilia.

I've done the Google image scan and only dredged up a few worthwhile
candidates.

The goal is to be able to reproduce the most important species as
Yorkshire style wets for fishing on a swung line.

Peter

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Sorry Peter, no images. Even the recent Aus. Waterbug Book doesn't have
a pupa. An observation or two about the La Fontaine sparkle pupa pattern
styles I fish a lot, obs that may be useful for your wet designs.

For both deep and emergent pupa: flys that have a contrast between head
(darker head) and body colour work better.

Emergent: colour is largely irrelevant, size, body/head contrast, and a
sparsely tied wing are important.


FWIW,

Steve (who's money is on you coming up with a SH GRHE variant ;-)