Video -Emerging Caddis
This pattern is used during and after the big caddis hatch. Trout normally won’t take a dry fly until they run out of pupa and emerging caddis.
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Video -Chocolate Caddis Pupa
This signature caddis pupa fly is used near the end of the caddis hatch. At this time of the year the caddis are smaller and darker.
Video -Soft Hackle Caddis
This pattern works well before the big caddis hatch, during the caddis hatch, and when there is very little on the water surface.
Video -Partridge Caddis
This floating pattern works well for most seasons. This is the fly Rod turns to when the trout are finicky.
Video -Cinnamon Caddis
This small floating caddis pattern is used in the mid-season when the caddis flies begin to change colour, body size and wings.
Video: Crystal Coachman
The Crystal Coachman Caddis is a dry fly attractor tied on a wet fly hook to prevent our large Columbiar River trout from straightening the hook.
Fishing Report August
I was fishing a promising run for trout when I hooked a smallmouth bass. A couple casts later I brought in a walleye, then a rainbow. All caught on Emile Contant’s Sore Lip Jigs.
Fishing Report July
Fishing the Columbia River has been literally up and down in the month of July. The fishing was great in the first week or so, challenging after that, but getting better.