Emerging Caddis?

[jayL]

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[afishinado]

jayL wrote:

The iris caddis. I tied a bunch of these in montana for the black caddis hatch, and they were killer. I fished them in tandem with every other caddis pattern I had, and the iris caught fish like 5-1 over them. I tied it with peacock herl and dun antron.

I find it to be easier to tie than the lafontaines, and haven't found it to be any less effective, but I also agree with troutbert about the hit or miss nature of these kind of patterns. My experience could be yet another anomaly

No fly works every time, but as I said, if you hit it right, the fly will vacuum up the stream. Worth tying and carrying for sure.

BTW, out-west, especially on the Big Horn, the fish will hit a little belly button lint lashed to a hook...... ;-)

 

[afishinado]

jayL wrote:
I think Afish the mod hit "edit" instead of "reply", so his reply is attributed to my original post for those of you that are confused.

The JackM special!

Yup. Fixed. Sorry.

 

[tennjed]

The bookmailer has all the sparkle yarn and touch dubbing colors / material that Gary used.