October Caddis

[ScottP]

Hope to see some in a few weeks:



Pretty happy with this (although it's up to the fishies to approve), now I need to start tying dries.

Regards,
Scott

[Uncle Jesse]

Of course, you are going to post either the recipe or a video on tying that aren't you? Nice looking tie.

[ScottP]

Absitively; here's the video I got it from:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDs5d1G_3Jk

A very simple tie; hope the fish like it.

Regards,
Scott

[Uncle Jesse]

Thanks, it is always good to watch a good tyer in action. I learn some little something almost everytime. I have never heard anyone around Atlanta mention October Caddis, I don't know if we have those or not.

[quivira kid]

Very nice tie! I have been watching Parks videos for a month or two... They have some very buggy patterns!

[planettrout]

The October Caddis we have in California is :

Dicosmoecus pallicornis




Brick Back OC Variant- Morris
http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?s...us+pallicornis

NOTE:

Dave Blackburn, who runs Kootenai Angler in Libby, Montana. also swears by (October)caddis larva and pupa imitations during fall. "I like to use a big caddis pupa fished under an indicator, Blackburn said. Those pupae have a yellow body, so any large pupa with a yellow coloration will work. A lot of people tie an orange pupae because the adults have an orange coloration, but those guys don't do as well because the pupa are actually yellow."

Blackburn speaks the truth. If you inspect an October caddis larva or pupa out of its case, you will see an almost white bug with a black head and legs. Tie your caddis patterns accordingly. (Old Whitehead, Dave Whitlock, interjects that the genus Dicosmoecus has more than one species; over their broad geographic range the larvae vary from white through pale yellow to a reddish-brown that could be called orange.)

From: Flyfishing & Tying Journal, ppg. 42, Fall 2004

The four species and where they are found:

http://m.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Dicosmoecus

PT/TB

[JohnScott]

Saw a half dozen or so adult October Caddis on the upper reaches of the Lochsa this afternoon. A few of them were ovipositing. There were some fish up, but I couldn't tell if any of them were on the October Caddis . Some did take other patterns, to include the FEB Hopper, a large CDC and Deer, and a ClackaCaddis, tied last year by ScottP.

John

[ScottP]

Some did take other patterns, to include the FEB Hopper, a large CDC and Deer, and a ClackaCaddis

John

The peacock-bodied one?

Regards,
Scott

[Lotech]

The "Bug d'jour" for the Idaho Fish In has perennially been the October Caddis. A rust colored body works well, and if they aren't an inch to an inch and a half long, they're too short.

[chewydog]

I generally fish the same patterns as I do during spring/summer hatches, only a tad larger. This pic is from the upper Colorado. For size comparison, that's a lb propane cylinder.



The fly that works for me:



Similar look to Scott's fly.