Crawling along the world’s river bottoms, the larvae of the caddis fly suffer a perpetual housing crisis. To protect themselves from predators, they gather up sand grains and other sediment and paste ...

Crawling along the world’s river bottoms, the larvae of the caddis fly suffer a perpetual housing crisis. To protect themselves from predators, they gather up sand grains and other sediment and paste ...

AMONG the litter of vegetable debris on the bottom of a slow stream, a caddis larva is searching out materials for a portable house. The insect had a fine tube until a few moments ago, but on the very ...

The lower Roaring Fork and Colorado Rivers are starting to make the switch from blue-winged olives to caddis hatches. The first few days of the hatch are always interesting; it takes the fish a minute ...

Knowing the stages of development in a bug’s life is a critical component to successful fly fishing. Deciphering the hatch on a river is a challenging game. Larva, pupa or adult stages have been ...

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The lower Roaring Fork and Colorado rivers are starting to make the switch from blue winged olives to caddis hatches. The first few days of the hatch are always interesting; it takes the fish a minute ...

I have no answer, because fly tyers have an obviously inborn need to innovate to the max. And, in truth, caddis are a really important fly to be packing along when fishing western rivers. I'm sure ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS Live fast and die young.It could be the motto of the caddis flies that flutter around the city and into windshields and car grills and nooks and crannies of all manner after a mass ...