The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
Caddis
Hard - 7-10 Min
Coldwater
There are no variations of this fly aside from changing the color, it’s a specialty fly and needs to be as close to the original recipe as possible to get the look as it is from the video.
One of the more realistic imitations of a emerging caddis pupa out there. The wire inside of the tubing is one of the more innovative and clever tying techniques I’ve seen. It creates excellent segmentation while also adding subtle weight to the fly and helping it to orient upwards on the retrieve or drift. The wings are superb as well. It doesn’t get much more realistic than this unless you branch into the realistic tying material zone. An all around excellent fly.
Best fished as the point fly in any rig, you’ll want to both dead drift this fly on the bottom and let it skate to the top at the end of your drifts. During a caddis hatch, throw an elk hair caddis or your favorite caddis dry fly, and then drop this fly off 18- 36 inches below as a dropper and you will cover both the emergence and the adults on the water. Tied in black, olive, brown and orange, you cover a most of the caddis in trout streams.
Grannom Caddis are the first to hatch and are green, then black and tan/brown caddis appear throughout the summer and end with orange October caddis where orange really does well.
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Caddis Sizes: #10 - #22
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