Caddis Flies
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Zebra Caddis
Zebra Caddis-- This low riding caddis pattern is a great fly to fish in slow or still water. FLIDRYCAD063Starting at: $0.92
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X Caddis, Tan
Tan X Caddis: This fly represent an emerging or crippled caddis. Trout will often key in on these crippled caddis, as they can not escape like the normal adults. A must have pattern to properly cover all options during a caddis hatch.
Starting at: $0.92
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X Caddis, Olive
Olive X Caddis: This fly represent an emerging or crippled caddis. Trout will often key in on these crippled caddis, as they can not escape like the normal adults. A must have pattern to properly cover all options during a caddis hatch.
Starting at: $0.92
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X Caddis, Brown
Brown X Caddis: This fly represent an emerging or crippled caddis. Trout will often key in on these crippled caddis, as they can not escape like the normal adults. A must have pattern to properly cover all options during a caddis hatch.
Starting at: $0.92
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Wacky Caddis
Wacky Caddis-- This caddis pattern fishes really well in the early morning and late evening hours. FLIDRYCAD062Starting at: $0.92
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Tent Wing Caddis, Olive
Olive Tent Wing Caddis: A great Caddis imitation that perfectly imitates the profile of an adult Caddis.
Starting at: $0.92
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Streaking Caddis
Streaking Caddis-- A simple and easy caddis pattern for selective trout. FLIDRYCAD061Starting at: $0.92
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Stillborn Caddis
Stillborn Caddis: This pattern represents a caddis that was never able to fully emerge into an adult. These "stillborn" caddis lie in the surface film, and are easy pickings for trout as they can not escape.
Starting at: $0.92
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SS Caddis
SS Caddis: A unique looking caddis imitation that trout find very appealing. Translucent wings add a bit of flash that just may peek a trout's interest enough to take, after refusing traditional patterns.
Starting at: $0.92
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Spotlight Caddis, Tan
Spotlight Caddis, Tan-- This fly represents and an adult caddis fly in it's early emergence stage. FLIDRYCAD059Starting at: $0.92
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Spotlight Caddis, Olive
Spotlight Caddis, Olive-- This fly represents and an adult caddis fly in it's early emergence stage. FLIDRYCAD058Starting at: $0.92
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Spent Caddis, Tan
Spent Caddis, Tan-Tan Spent Caddis: Spent version of the caddis. After a caddis is done mating, they will fall to the water in the spent position (wings spread flat on the water). Here is the perfect match for a spent caddis. This is easy pickings for a Trout.
-FLIDRYCAD037Starting at: $0.92
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Spent Caddis, Olive
Spent Caddis, Olive-Olive Spent Caddis: Spent version of the caddis. After a caddis is done mating, they will fall to the water in the spent position (wings spread flat on the water). Here is the perfect match for a spent caddis. This is easy pickings for a Trout.
-FLIDRYCAD037Starting at: $0.92
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Slow Water CDC Caddis, Olive
Olive Slow Water CDC Caddis: Excellent, natural looking caddis imitation. CDC body lets this fly ride low in the film and fool the wariest of trout.
Starting at: $0.92
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Slow Water Caddis, Olive
Olive Slow Water Caddis: This is THE caddis pattern on ultra finicky flat water trout. This fly looks just like the real thing, and it will fool the finickiest of trout.
Starting at: $0.92
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Slow Water Caddis, Brown
Brown Slow Water Caddis: This is THE caddis pattern on ultra finicky flat water trout. This fly looks just like the real thing, and it will fool the finickiest of trout.
Starting at: $0.92
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Ripper Caddis, Black
This caddis pattern features a hi-viz post, making it easy to see in low light situations. This pattern also doubles as a great black stonefly pattern.Starting at: $0.92
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Puter. Caddis, Tan
Puter. Caddis, TanStarting at: $0.92
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Puter. Caddis
Puter. Caddis--Tied with black foam to make it float in the roughest of waters. This doubles as a great floating black early stone fly pattern as well. FLIDRYCAD055Starting at: $0.92
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Parachute Caddis, Tan
Tan Parachute Caddis: Low riding caddis imitation that will work when normal higher riding patterns such as an Elk Hair Caddis are not. Low riding parachute style lets this fly ride down in the surface film.
Starting at: $0.92
Caddis flies, unlike your mayfly fly or stonefly flies, have a complete life cycle because they pupate. Pupation is often called a resting stage as the insects transform from larva to adult. These flies mate on dry ground or in streamside vegetation beyond the reach of hungry trout. Once emerged, most adults fly off to shoreline vegetation to mate. Some species, particularly those inhabiting lakes scurry and scamper prior to flight, leaving speedboat wakes for trout to hone in on. The caddis dry fly come in many varieties and profiles as well. With over 10,000 species worldwide and 1,400 in North America alone, this complex and diverse order is unique to say the least. Within the 22 caddis families found across the continent lies a variety of sizes, shapes, colors and most importantly behaviors.
To name the caddis flies for caddis fly fishing is not an easy thing to do. There are so many that work best on certain rivers and that makes this a hard choice. Caddis fly fishing can be a test of switching your caddis dry fly constantly to figure out what stage and profile they are looking for. Dry fly caddis will test you to the fullest within every given hatch. These flies can vary from this species to the next. The trout have a good handle on what is the most prolific in any caddis dry fly hatch, so it’s up to us to figure this out. Caddis flies can vary from the adult version down to the emerger and beyond. To name just a few caddis dry fly would be going out on a limb. The best caddis dry fly patterns range from the all-knowing, Elk Hair Caddis, to the EC Caddis, to the Parachute Caddis. All in which should be on hand when caddis fly fishing is present. Caddis dry fly patterns come in to play at different times when they are prolific. One day they want a specific CDC pattern, when the next they won't even look at it. So, to call out a best caddis flies becomes quite difficult.
In the end caddis fly fishing can be daunting to say the least. But in every shape and form you will love it. Trying to figure this hatch out at times will make you go nuts in the best way. We will say this though, when you figure it out, its game on, but not before you check out or selection of caddis flies for sale on our website.
