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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.

You should have parachutes, Compara-duns, cripples, or RS2 flies size in sizes 18 to 22, along with a few brown mayflies in 12 and chunky orange dries or soft-hackles, also in 12, for the 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 ...

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 ...

Gallentine fishes a dry fly pattern like the dark-bodied elk hair caddis. Sometimes he'll tie a nymph like a pheasant tail or beadhead prince to the back of the dry fly, known as a dropper.

Rainbow Warrior The rainbow warrior is one of the best dropper flies to utilize in dry dropper rig (dry-fly with a subsurface fly hung behind it). It’s tied with a tungsten bead which makes it sink ...

Any angler who claims he or she doesn’t love a good surface take is a liar. It doesn’t matter if it’s a trout rising to sip a caddis fly or a striper boiling on a Spook in the back of a wave ...

Last week’s refusals on big dry flies will turn in to this week’s ferocious takedowns. Running double dries is a deadly combination, and if you have trouble with one fish on the end of your line, try ...