Hi cornellpd,

Sounds like you did the right thing! Nice catch.

If you are looking for emerger patterns, the soft hackle spider flies are a good start and can represent either caddis or mayflies. For dries, something palmered (I go with Wickham's Fancy, but any palmered dry would probably be as good) is always a good starting point in my opinion, again because I think these cover a lot of ground (good for caddis, terrestrial, and to some extent mayfly). Patterns for all of these can be found in the fly tying section of FAOL.

- Jeff