Caddis fly larvae work an important gig hoovering up aquatic vegetation, keeping a river from getting overgrown. As flying adults, they serve as a critical food source for bats, frogs, and spiders.

Caddis fly larvae work an important gig hoovering up aquatic vegetation, keeping a river from getting overgrown. As flying adults, they serve as a critical food source for bats, frogs, and spiders.

There are a few techniques that are crucial to your fishing time, starting with having plenty of floatant. Your line, leader, tippet and fly must float well or you will be missing fish all day. Sunken ...

Lastly, across and downstream casts make this much easier to do on your part. This technique has trickled into most of my dry fly fishing, whether it’s caddis, blue wings, pale morning duns, green ...

Legendary hatches of caddis and mayflies -- larger insects popular among dry fly anglers -- began to noticeably decline about a decade ago, he said. “The aquatic community is shifting.

Fishing two dries doesn’t just help trout see your fly – it helps you see your fly. Sticking with the scenario above, I can’t see a size 22 caddis on the water to save my life, but I can see ...

“Let’s see,” Harris said. “A missing link caddis, a rubber-legged caddis, the gunch and the emerger caddis.” Turns out, dry-fly caddisflies are a prime lure for fishers.

Check any fly fisherman’s fly box and it’s likely you will find a bit of Troth’s legacy. In 1957, Troth designed one of the most definitive dry-fly patterns of all time — the elk hair caddis.

Lastly, across and downstream casts make this much easier to do on your part. This technique has trickled into most of my dry fly fishing — whether it’s caddis, blue wings, pale morning duns, green ...