OUTSTUDY – They're known as cased caddis, rock rollers or periwinkles to kids probing rocky streams and fly fishermen who imitate caddis flies in their various life stages to catch trout. But ...

Eventually, the caddis fly larva makes its case into a cocoon by sealing it up at the top with what's called a "hat stone," and reinforcing the inside with extra tape.

If the caddis fly larva somehow loses its case, it’s got to start from scratch, and that’s quite the precarious situation for a defenseless tube of flesh. And now, ...

Eventually, the caddis fly larva makes its case into a cocoon by sealing it up at the top with what's called a "hat stone," and reinforcing the inside with extra tape.

Caddis fly larvae typically construct protective cases out of sand grains and silk. ... If the caddis fly larva somehow loses its case, it’s got to start from scratch, ...

Picasa 3.0, Robert Williamson . With the publication of Gary's book fly fishermen were introduced to his caddis Sparkle Pupa (or Deep Pupa) and his Emergent Pupa in all their colors.

One of the advantages of living on the bank of the Eagle River is a connection to the insects that fill the bellies of trout. Only recently have I started to see caddis flying haphazardly over the ...

The caddis larvae in this stream live in a small gray case which is best imitated with a size 14 fly hook. Early on, I tied this fly on a Mustad 3906B wet fly hook. Now I prefer a curved nymph ...

As the days get longer and the sun creeps higher into the sky, warm water migrates up the Arkansas River and little bugs start to hatch, surfacing out of the water in a mysterious way.

The Strawman is an old Paul Young pattern that probably was a cased caddis imitation, though such free-floating cased caddisflies are rare. Favorite Flies: Riffles good place to fish cased caddis ...

Tandem dry-fly rigs consisting of size 14-18 caddis dries like variants, stimulators, elk-hair caddis and the like all fish well. You’ll catch fish dead drifting these but you’ll often do more damage ...

Sometimes, when the black caddis are flying along the river and the trout are feeding heavily upon them, I think about the old Eddy Arnold song "Cattle Call." But instead ...