Catching More Trout with the Peeping Caddis
If you've ever spent a few minutes staring into a clear riffle and noticed a tiny bundle of sticks or sand crawling across the rocks, you've already met the inspiration for the peeping caddis. It's one of those fly patterns that seems almost too simple to be as effective as it is, but that's exactly why it works. It mimics a very specific, very vulnerable moment in a caddis larva's life: when it's just starting to poke its head out of its protective casing to move or feed. ...