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The Strawman is an old Paul Young pattern that probably was a cased caddis imitation, though such free-floating cased caddisflies are rare. Sometimes, however, in very turbulent waters, these caddis ...

OUTSTUDY – They’re known as cased caddis, rock rollers or periwinkles to kids probing rocky streams and fly fishermen who imitate caddis flies in their various life stages to catch trout. But these ...

One of the advantages of living on the bank of the Eagle River is a connection to the insects that fill the bellies of trout. Only recently have I started to see caddis flying haphazardly over the ...

If you walk into any fly shop in the Vail Valley right now, then I’m sure you will hear the same thing from all of the guides and shop-dogs mouths. The caddisfly hatch is the Eagle River’s best known ...

If you’re a fly-fisherman, think back on your first trout on the fly. Can you remember it? Turns out I cannot, but I do recall my teenage years spent trying to crack the code on mountain brook trout ...

About the time that the most famous hatch comes off (The Green Drake) other flies appear that last throughout the entire season. They are the Caddis flies, and are a very important part of the trout's ...

Sometimes, when the black caddis are flying along the river and the trout are feeding heavily upon them, I think about the old Eddy Arnold song "Cattle Call." But instead of "cattle call," I insert ...