Handbook of Hatches by Hughes Dave

Author:Hughes, Dave
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8117-4305-1
Publisher: Stackpole Books (NBN)
Published: 2012-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

Hook 1X fine, sizes 12-20.

Thread Match body color.

Body Tan, olive, or black fur or synthetic, or peacock herl.

Wing Mottled turkey, mallard, or goose wing feather sections.

Hackle Ginger, blue dun, brown, or grizzly.

Tie the Quill-Wing style in the same set of basic colors as you would the Elk Hair or X-Caddis style. Because you’ll use it most frequently on very smooth flows, it’s often best to wait until you’ve collected the predominant natural, and tie to match it with a variation based on what you see. Trim the hackle off the bottom in order to lower the body and wing toward the water. This makes it float as the natural caddis adult does.

Many adult stream caddis lay their eggs by flying right into the water, breaking through the surface film, swimming down to deposit the seeds for the next caddis generation on bottom rocks or submerged logs and limbs. If you’re wading during a heavy caddis egg-laying flight, you’ll often find clusters of eggs attached to your wadered legs. If you’re boating, when you trailer out late in the day, you might drive off with thousands of caddis eggs drying on the hull below the waterline.

Caddis that display this type of egg-laying behavior are generally in the abundant and widespread spotted sedge and gray sedge groups. The best way to imitate them is with wet flies in the right sizes and colors. The two flies that I’ve found best are standards, the Hare’s Ear Wet and Leadwing Coachman. Both dressings are listed here.

HARE’S EAR WET

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