Umpqua Eakins' Hipster Dufus Fly

"Giddy-up! The Hipster Dufus was designed to be a versatile bug that you can dap, flip, drag it, drop it, or bomb it on fish. With barred wood duck feathers, and CDC, it’s a little buggy, a little flashy and has a ton of moxie. This is my baby, my first labor of time and love. I didn’t set out to “design” a carp fly, nor did I sit down and try to tie the fly, as we know it now. This naturally naïve approach can be gold within any creative venture. When I started tying carp flies, and learning how to build a chassis for a carp fly I was still fishing for trout quite a bit. I had become smitten with a particular free-swimming caddis pattern that absolutely crushes on our Colorado tail waters…the Banksia Bug. I tinkered with various lift kits (thank you Jay) to balance it properly, as well as various abdomen sizes and materials. I know that when I was just starting with this pattern that I wanted it to be versatile so I could fish it from fishery to fishery, situation to situatio