The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
Caddis
Easy - 3-5 Min
Coldwater
You can remove the egg sac material to imitate males or standard caddis patterns. You can also mix and match different dubbing body colors with thorax/head dubbing colors to get different caddis colors for your local area.
This fly is low maintenance and can be dead drifted, skated and even sunk a bit to get the eats. This makes it very versatile and with a little doc’s dry dust, you can keep it high and dry all day long. The mix of snowshoe rabbit fur and touch dubbed hares ear makes it float well and maintain an excellent profile on the water.
While fishing that pattern anytime as the first or second fly in a two dry fly setup is a good choice, it seems to work best after a hatch or later in the evening when females return to the water to lay eggs.
Skating this pattern imitates the naturals as they cruise the water often before settling down to drop the eggs and then die. Fish it like a streamer almost casting to one side of the river and letting it drift across keeping your rod tip high and making small twitches to make it an erratic retrieve. If a fish takes it, lower the rod and wait until you feel the fish to set the hook. If you set the hook immediately you’ll often pull it out of their mouths.
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Caddis Sizes: #10 - #22
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