October Caddis

[steve98]

Can anyone please post a pattern/recipe/picture of an October Caddis effective for the Slate Run PA area.

Thanx in advance
Steve98

 

[outsider]

I tie an orange body stimulator on a size 14 200R hook. You can look up a stimulator pattern on the web. I eliminate the palmer hackle, but that is your choice.

 

[redietz]

I assume that by "October Caddis" you mean "Great Autumn Brown Sedge" (the October Caddis is a western fly, but GABS, which we have around here, is often called October Caddis.)

They're big bugs. I just use an orange bodied Elk Hair Caddis in a size 10 or 12 for the adult, or a size 10 orange bodied flymph (partridge hackle) for the pupa.

 

[outsider]

The 200R hook is 3X long. Many (including me) like to tie stimulators with this hook.

 

[redietz]

outsider wrote:
The 200R hook is 3X long. Many (including me) like to tie stimulators with this hook.

Yeah, 3x would make it the length of a 11 hook, which is about right.

Personally, I'd rather have the larger gape, though, of a actual 10 or 12. Goes along with my general philosophy that it's better to tie small on a large hook than to tie large on a small one. YMMV.