Great summer fly fishing includes fishing caddis patterns. Fly anglers can use simple caddis patterns and techniques when caddisflies are out and about to increase their catch and have lots of fun.

When the caddis pupae are doing their thing, they’re basically shooting straight up from the bottom to the surface. First, tie on a caddis pupa pattern, like a Knouff Lake Special, a Carey ...

When nymphing prior to the hatch, look to stonefly nymphs fished as your point fly trailed by various size 16-18 caddis larva and pupa patterns as droppers. Smaller attractor patterns such as princes, ...

Pulsating caddis pupa When the fish are not targeting the flies on the surface or slightly below the surface, the pulsating caddis pupa is the first fly I go to. This pattern can be fished behind a ...

Trailing shuck caddis, elk hair, Goddard and stimulators will get the job done. Even with the option for fishing dries, make sure to have a good assortment of beadheads and emergers on hand, as ...

These simple yet deadly flies are plausible imitations of everything from emerging caddis pupae to drowned mayflies and other aquatic insects, which probably accounts for why trout readily take ...

Try larger stonefly patterns like Rubber Legs, Girdle Bugs, and North Fork Specials (8-10), steel or standard San Juan Worms (8), Caddis Pupa (14), BWO nymphs like an RS2 (18), as well as Zebra ...

Good patterns include Royal Wulffs, Green Drake Sparkle Duns, H&L Variants, BDE Drakes, Pink PMD Sparkleduns, BH Princes, 20 Inchers, Lite Brite Caddis and BH P-Tails.

Further downriver, San Juan Worms, Copper Johns, Beadhead Pheasant Tails, Beaded Stonefly nymphs, Caddis Pupa, Green Drake nymphs and PMD nymphs all have produced somewhat.

An attractive factor of the Mother’s Day caddis hatch is the longevity of the emergence. The bugs are suspended in a transition stage, the pupae stage, for many days.