The Strawman is an old Paul Young pattern that probably was a cased caddis imitation, though such free-floating cased caddisflies are rare. Sometimes, however, in very turbulent waters, these caddis ...

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One of the advantages of living on the bank of the Eagle River is a connection to the insects that fill the bellies of trout. Only recently have I started to see caddis flying haphazardly over the ...

Brad Trumbo dead-drifting a caddis for rainbows on the Tucannon River, Washington. If you’re a fly-fisherman, think back on your first trout on the fly. Can you remember it? Turns out I cannot, but I ...

I just finished setting up the card table over the dogs’ kennel box in the back room. It’ll probably stay up at least until the trout opener, because it holds all the fly tying materials to the left ...

“In the case of caddis, we taper the body from largest to smallest,” Jones said. “We build up the butt characteristic to caddis species.” Wrap four or five turns of hackle forward on the hook and wrap ...

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Sometimes, when the black caddis are flying along the river and the trout are feeding heavily upon them, I think about the old Eddy Arnold song "Cattle Call." But instead of "cattle call," I insert ...

Crawling along the world’s river bottoms, the larvae of the caddis fly suffer a perpetual housing crisis. To protect themselves from predators, they gather up sand grains and other sediment and paste ...