Cream caddis or Sulfur

[goose54cdd]

Back about 45 years or so ago I got into a hatch right at dark on the FFO section of the West Branch of the Octararo in southern Lancaster County. I only had two kinds of dry flies with me - light ones and dark ones. Many years later I realized that I hit a really good sulphur hatch at dark that night - I honestly didn’t even know what a sulphur was back then. I fished till I lost all of my light colored dry flies that night - either on fish or in the brush. I remember catching 21 trout that evening on my Shakespeare Wonderrod before I ran out of flies. Those memories just kind of stick with you, not bad for an inexperienced fly fishing punk way back in the day!

Days like those are so great on which to look back. I remember a day when I was still fishing bait along with my buddy. We were using fly rods on a local stream. In the middle of the afternoon one spring day fish began to rise all over the pool we were fishing. We couldn't catch anything until my buddy remembered he was carrying a small fly box someone gave him filled with flies. We looked in there, found one about the size and color of the bugs hatching and we proceeded to catch trout. We were amazed. Neither of us knew anything about fly fishing. It must have planted the fly fishing seed in me.

 

[JG63]

That golden is handsome

He knows it too 🙄

 

[Arfly]

The hair on your dog would also make a beautiful woven body Yellow Sally nymph.