The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
Caddis, October Caddis
Medium - 3-5 Min
Coldwater
You can variate with different colors of chicabou
This is one of those patterns that once you invest in the primary material (chicabou) you can tie a ton of them and they look great. While you can substitute materials, the chicabou really makes this pattern work from a design perspective because of it’s uniform properties on the fibers. This pattern works great once you add a little fly duster too if though gink or dry fly floatant can cause it to be greasy and beahves a lot like CDC. It’s a very buggy pattern that gives a great impressionistic profile that fools trout eating caddis emergers or adults.
Fly Duster is key for this pattern in my opinion to get good drifts. Don’t be afraid to swing this fly like a soft hackle either. The skating look of the fly seems to get trout really excited when a caddis hatch is on or just ended.
I recommend fishing this as the 2nd fly in a 2 fly dry fly set up with the Tabou caddis being the point fly (last fly) in the set up. 18-24 inches is plenty of distance between the flies. Work it like you do any dry fly set up casting upstream and dead drifting it down to you. After that has worked an area, do the same but skate it across the stream like you would a streamer. Then redust your fly, move upstream a bit and do it over again.
| General Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Caddis Sizes: #10 - #22
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| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Region: West, Northwest, East
October Caddis Sizes: #8 - #12
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