Rainbow,
My belief, based on observation and reading, is that often what folks take for a hatch is actually the females returning to lay eggs - often by diving INTO the water vs. a pupa rising from...
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Rainbow,
My belief, based on observation and reading, is that often what folks take for a hatch is actually the females returning to lay eggs - often by diving INTO the water vs. a pupa rising from...
It is a good reference. We are sort of discussing the contention I have which is that the caddis fly was not a universally important fly to the majority of fly fishers until perhaps as late as the...
Dave,
Do you agree that the Caddis was not such a "go to" fly as it seems to be over the last 20 years or so??
Very interesting Dave!!
What were the featured flies in the catalog back then? I suppose catskill type dries? Hendricksons, cahills, Adams, etc?
Was the one Caddis al troth's elk hair at that...
Thank you!!
I appreciate that.
I got to meet Gary once and he demonstrated tying his deep Caddis pupa. He was quite a nice guy!
My copy is in storage. I remember reading his book in 81 or 82.
I know this sounds crazy, but I seem to recall him saying that caddis flies were not considered an important fly to fly fishermen...