In this week's "How to Tie" feature, Tiesflies ties a pattern that should be in every trout anglers fly box during a caddis hatch, the Streaking Caddis. Difficulty: Intermediate One of my personal ...

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If you walk into any fly shop in the Vail Valley right now, then I’m sure you will hear the same thing from all of the guides and shop-dogs mouths. The caddisfly hatch is the Eagle River’s best known ...

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Secure the thread on a size 16 dry fly hook and dub it with a blend of olive and grey dubbing. “The Mother’s Day caddis is a black caddis, but when you see it on the water it is more brown or tan than ...

Knowing the stages of development in a bug’s life is a critical component to successful fly fishing. Deciphering the hatch on a river is a challenging game. Larva, pupa or adult stages have been ...

BASALT – During the month of May, the first big hatches of brachycentrus caddis flies begin to hatch. Though they’re often dubbed “mayflies,” because they hatch during the month of May, this insect is ...

He's been chasing the Mother's Day caddis hatch for a while now. In the 1990s, Kurtz traveled from his home in California's Salinas Valley to fish the hatch on the Yellowstone and Madison rivers. He ...