Caddis Flies

[tomfly]

I found a good web page on Northern Caddis Flies. Any experienced fly fishermen can look at a Mayfly and have a good understanding of what species that it is. Most fly fishermen can not say the same when it pertains to caddis flies. I can identify maybe 5 total. Most of us classify them by color of their wings and body Black, Tan, Cream, Dun, Olive…. Here is a good collection of the caddis flies in the Limnephilidea classification.
Northern Caddisflies - Limnephilidae Photo Gallery by Tom Murray at pbase.com

 

[Rusty Spinner]

Remember what Art Flick said when interviewed about caddis in the Catskills: "We do not have that problem here" (meaning we have ample mayflies, so why worry about the caddis?).

 

[trico mike]

Remember what Art Flick said when interviewed about caddis in the Catskills: "We do not have that problem here" (meaning we have ample mayflies, so why worry about the caddis?).

Unless they are gorging themselves on apple caddis during the hendos,or eating the slap in the face caddis during drakes,or sipping spent caddis in the grey light of morning. Lafontaines book caddis flies is still the best material on the subject.

 

[tomfly]

Unless they are gorging themselves on apple caddis during the hendos,or eating the slap in the face caddis during drakes,or sipping spent caddis in the grey light of morning. Lafontaines book caddis flies is still the best material on the subject.

Well that is debatable about Lafontaine. I read his book. Dan and I witnessed an Argus hatch a few years back. At the time we argued on what they were. He said stone fly. I said it is a caddis and I can prove it to you. I had the fly on me an I gave him a few and we had a good day. When we got back To NJ, I showed him the Cover of Larry Solomon’s Book The Caddis and the Angler, (Another great read on the subject) and there it was plain as day on the cover. In Gary’s book he describes the Argus females as divers when they lay eggs. He is dead wrong. 2 days after the hatch the females were back, you can go back and look at my St Regis posts. I did make it up then and I am not making it up now. They do not dive in fact, the females hover with their ass in the water to deposit their eggs. The fish would nudge them to make them drop the eggs for a meal. If Lafontaine was incorrect on that, what else is his research flawed on. Fly fishing is an observation activity. You can not learn it from a book.