The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
Caddis
Medium - 3-5 Min
Coldwater
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You can change the colors of the deer or elk hair and the thread color to change the color of the fly. Â Black hair and black thread for black caddis for example. Â I like orange a lot for this pattern.
Highly visible for anglers, and a realistic profile for the trout. Jay Zimmerman is the inventor of this pattern and does a great job of making a pattern that is easy to see and realistic for the trout. You don’t have to sacrifice visibility for realism here and that makes it a highly effective fly that often outperforms more traditional caddis dry fly patterns
I like to fish this as the first fly in a dual dry fly rig and then trail a CDC caddis emerger or something that is super realistic but hard to see. Â Paired together it’s often deadly for trout during the late spring into summer and all the way into fall.
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Caddis Sizes: #10 - #22
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