peeking caddis

[country52]

What range of sizes do you stay in when you tie a peeking caddis?
I was going to tie some on a 14 or 16, but I'm seeing a lot of videos of guys using a 10 or 12.

 

[troutpoop]

My preference is a 14 2xl hook but I have them tied in a variety of sizes including a few in 12 & 16.

 

[Stroup]

I like them on a #12

 

[nfrechet]

 

[sandfly]

that is a great fly norm..

 

[country52]

Do the actual caddis cases vary in size or are they all pretty close to the same for each specific hatch?

 

[sandfly]

they will vary in size and color to the specific streams, though a general pattern works to.

 

[country52]

By general do you mean a caddis larvae without the case?

 

[sipe]

I sample a stream with my high school kids that is never more than 5-7 feet wide and we consistently find at least 4 different caddis species. Some are as small as size 22 to as large as size 4. Colors range from orangish-brown to greyish to olive colored.

 

[mike_richardson]

Caught these hold overs 2 weeks or so ago. landed 2 on it an lost 2, missed a few others.

These are size 10, with a 3.3mm tung bead. Fished them as anchor flies with a Pheasantail, Hares ear, or Walt's worm.

I have tied them in 14. There was a post on them I had put up earlier in the year. with a lot of good info as well.

I like to use grey squirrel as the dubbing, Hungarian partridge as the hackle, gold rib, and ultra chenille for the "peeping/peeking" part. tons of variations. I will by tying the up with a pheasant body next.

I call them peeping caddis's tough

 

[gutcutter]

Stroup wrote:
I like them on a #12

Stroup,
I like that fly and tie them similarly.
Curious - why the scud hook? Would you use a 14 standard shank length hook, or still a 12?

 

[sandfly]

By general do you mean a caddis larvae without the case?

by general I mean cream or green head with dubbing for the case.

 

[MattM]

Here is a giant from Bob's Creek. The caddis had to be an inch long inside.



I like to grind up feather remnants and a couple different dubbings and feed it into a dubbing loop to get a choppy sticky look.

 

[MattM]

http://i745.photobucket.com/albums/xx94/flyangler/IMG_0262_zps167c8d91.jpg

 

[MattM]

Sorry for this. It's not taking my photobucket URL's

 

[mike_richardson]

I fish bobs creek on occasion, but to be honest I have never used a caddis pattern there. I kill trout on yellow creek using caddis larva imitations though.