Caddis Flys

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    Posted: 19 Jan 2015 at 5:36pm
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I have been doing a bit of research over the interjet, apparently caddis, and their variants, provide a large part of the food chain for our mudfish friends! Can you fellahs, guess, check your records, give me a gut feeling?  Roughly on the percentage of trout you have caught, on caddis flys, roughly what time of year, and where, particularly the Taupo/Rotorua region, lakes and rivers? I am tying quite a few San Juan worms and other patterns for my next sojourn to that area. Very interested to hear your comments?!Smile
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San Juan worms tend to be used for fish feeding on bloodworms or midges, in terms of caddis the green caddis nymph was my go to fly for nymphing the Tongariro while the Goddard caddis was the fly for skaking across surface feeding fish after dark on the Tongariro river and the Tukituki. The adult caddis tend to emerge after mayflies after the light goes.
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Seems like caddis nymphs work approximately 90% of the time for me .
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Caddis is bread and butter, Generic patterns like the Hare and Copper are most likely taken as a Caddis at times. You should have a few net building caddis for the Tongariro though and the Elk Hair Caddis is one of my GOTO dry flies.
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Same applies to most southland rivers I guess. I bumped into Southland F&G Ranger I met at Canterbury and showed him my stoneflies and heavy nymphs I used in NI and he said those wont work there. He told me to use very small caddis patterns size 18's (I think even smaller) and even gave a couple to try. They look like hair and copper pattern with very minimal hair in them. Next day I tried them, I had best fishing ever in a South Island river. 
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Applies to many areas Kenshin. Because most North Island cut their teeth on the Tongariro many focus on weighted flies in areas they don't have to. Even if you do want to use weight having a wee nymph as a dropper can be very productive.
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here are a couple of links to some caddis patterns I have found very effective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSCMqv3rtnY

I tie a variant of the above using audio cassette tape instead of dubbing for horn cased caddis

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When I lived in Hawkes Bay our standard 'go to' nymph on many rivers was a horny cased caddis in black or brown with minimal hackle. Tied them with black or brown insulated telephone wire and they took only seconds to tie.
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Thanks for all your help guys, I will check out the links StPaul, I have plenty of old tapes lying around!
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