Got some good pix while fishing the Lochsa yesterday afternoon. This bug is much darker than some of my earlier models. I think it may be that those models were immature, and this one is fully matured. The coloration on this one is very similar to most of the pix I’ve seen of adult OCs.
There were a good number of OC in the air and a few on the water yesterday. Caught several fishies with the new OC pattern, although the fishies seemed to prefer smaller caddis, overall, and the best fish of the day came on a Griffith Gnat on the first cast of the day.
… two years to the day that I started this thread.
It’s a gaudy little thing …
… what with all that bright orange foam for the forward body and bullet style head. It’s an FEB OC 3.0 aka a little orange FEB Hopper. But about a dozen fishies approved of the new version yesterday, several of them way out there …
… about as far as I can cast. The others took it in an interesting variety of water closer in, some with really aggressive, splashy takes and some just kind of inhaling it hardly breaking the surface.
I really like the original FEB OC, which did very well for me last year, but the deer hair bullet head is rather fragile, even with a flexament coating. The foam is much more durable, and the orange “head” was easy to see at 50-60’ out in riffled water.
Starting to see a fair number of October Caddis on my home water. And the fish are on them.
At least until the emergence of BWOs and PMds starts later in the day. Mid afternoon the fish stop taking the OC and become selective to Simple Little Things.
