I’m looking for a recipe or picture of this pattern. In searching I have found one picture of a soft hackle version, but was wondering if anyone knows of a dry pattern. I’m guessing it is just a light colored caddis and an light cream EHC would work, but plan on hitting it this weekend and these are rumored to be the hot number right now. Thanks!
anything here help???
I believe the White Miller is a mayfly, not a caddis
Might be why you’re having trouble finding anything
Yea, the link that Normand provided had a mayfly pattern as well. Could be a misprint on their page, but this is a direct quote from their website. I don’t know :?
In the evening you will see sporadic White Flies and tiny little Baetis and Pseudocloen types but the star of the show will be the White Miller Caddis. These are best fished with a bright green soft hackle early and a dead adult later. These are the guys that look like white moths flitting around the surface. Fish early and fish late and hope for cooler weather.
Here is a link http://www.madriveroutfitters.com/t-fis … ad%20River
The guy that use to write the outdoor column in a local (large) newspaper would often mention the Adams hatch :shock:
In Caddiflies Gary La fonaine said that it should be imitated with a white dancing caddis in sizes 10-14. Other cream bodied /white winged caddis patterns in those sizes should work.
Hi,
The pattern I’m familear with for a White Miller was fished as a wet fly. it was simply:
Thread: black
Tail : White hackle fibres
Body: white floss
Rib : flat siliver tinsel
beard: white hackle fibres
Wing: White quill
It was used to represent a moth, which people called a “miller” because it was thought to get into the flour. Anyway, as most wet flies were also tied as a dry, adding a dry fly hackle would be the usual change, but tenting the wing would be a good call too. Sorry, don’t have a photo of this one.
But, here’s a pattern of my own that I use when white moths are around. It’s basically a white Invicta:
Thread: black
Tail: grizzle fibres, on the pale/greyish side
body: dubbed white wool
hackle: grizzle, palmered, on the pale/greying side
rib : oval silver, or silver wire
beard: black hackle fibres
wing: white hackle fibres (or white quill; not shown)
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g142/ … nvicta.jpg
Again, if you used a dry fly hackle, you could turn this into a dry version. Haven’t tried it that way myself though, but Wickham’s Fancy is a good dry when caddis are about, so I would think this should work fine for white millers.
- Jeff
Open mouth, stick in foot
In Caddisflies LaFontaine also recommends the Parkany Deer Hair Caddis for a dry imitation
I happen to like this high floater
Hook: wide gap
Body: spun and clipped light deer hair
Wing: deer hair tips
Head: butt ends of deer hair wing, clipped long and spread out
I’ll have to give some of these a try this week. Thanks for all the replies guys!
Here is a picture of one that was provided to me from a guy on another BB.
http://www.thomasames.com/insects/caddis/miller.htm
I’m thinking of just following the EHC pattern with white bunny dubbing for a body, white dry fly hackle and buctail for the tent wings. What do you think?
here is what I did…
Last year about tghis time we had a miller hatch…
So I look around and founs that the white stimi is a good fly for the miller hatch… size 10-12 (TMC 200R) . although I was fishing these at night…
you may need to down size