Great summer fly fishing includes fishing caddis patterns. Fly anglers can use simple caddis patterns and techniques when caddisflies are out and about to increase their catch and have lots of fun.

Gallentine fishes a dry fly pattern like the dark-bodied elk hair caddis. Sometimes he'll tie a nymph like a pheasant tail or beadhead prince to the back of the dry fly, known as a dropper.

The following day on the Roaring Fork confirmed our pattern: When fish are eating caddis, fish the fast water. Shallow nymph rigs or dry/dropper/dropper rigs are best. Prior to the hatch, anglers will ...

When nymphing prior to the hatch, look to stonefly nymphs fished as your point fly trailed by various size 16-18 caddis larva and pupa patterns as droppers. Smaller attractor patterns such as princes, ...

Pulsating caddis pupa When the fish are not targeting the flies on the surface or slightly below the surface, the pulsating caddis pupa is the first fly I go to. This pattern can be fished behind a ...

Five months ago, I was asked to try out and then write about a pair of Caddis Readers – a high-end, a little on the pricey side, reading glasses. The pitch was that when fly anglers tie flies ...

Elk Hair Caddis If you see caddis coming off the water, you’ll never go wrong with an Elk Hair pattern. Super buoyant and easy to see, it’s a ton of fun to fish.

Soft hackles have been catching fish since the invention of fly fishing. Here's how to fish a soft hackle fly, plus 6 killer patterns.

Check any fly fisherman’s fly box and it’s likely you will find a bit of Troth’s legacy. In 1957, Troth designed one of the most definitive dry-fly patterns of all time – the elk hair caddis.

Popper flies are fun and effective fly patterns. Learn which style of these surface patterns will get the job done on your home waters.