August Caddis

An August evening. It means a possibility of caddis hatch where you live. They are rhyacophila, one of the two caddis species you know by name. They hatch after sunset. Last time you were here it didn’t happen.



There was some good fishing soon after 6 pm. when you arrived, but then it has been quiet. You take a break, eat your egg-bacon-sandwich.

Start again, fish a small streamer with soft hackle dropper. You start catching small trout. Replace the streamer with a size 16 caddis pupa. It’s getting dark, and the trout are everywhere. The best fly is a dry fly, green bodied Deer Hair Sedge.


When it is too dark to see your fly, you switch back to pupa pattern and feel the trout taking it. And when they stop, you stop.

You lived again.

Weekend Humpy

When you have two small (2 and 4-years-old) children, and you finally have a weekend without them, you feel that you have all the time in the world. Finally some much needed quality time with your wife, time to drink beer, tie beautiful flies, and write the greatest blog entry ever.

Then you find out that you just lie in the bed, drink beer, look at a beautiful fly and know that you are never going to write the greatest blog entry ever.

So, you decide to write a blog entry and share a picture of a beautiful size 16 Humpy that is tied by Jay Lee from the Netherlands.

"It is happening again. It is happening again."

According to the Finnish fly fishing forum The February Red Stonefly Hatch is coming in few weeks. Total four (4) specimen have been seen in the Southern Finland. Yes, you hear right; not one, nor two, but four!

It can be cold, and it can rain, it can be miserable, but I will be there: standing in a river. And if it is really miserable, I'll fish with the taste of blood in my mouth, but it will be a good taste: the taste of life after a long cold winter!

Catskill Dry Flies

Jay has posted first pictures on his Catskill Dry Fly project. I recommend that you check his blog.

X-Caddis

I love caddis patterns. They are very important in my waters although caddisflies may not be as beautiful as mayflies. One of my favourite emerging mayfly pattern is Sparkle Dun. This pattern in very similar to tie as X-Caddis. I like simple patterns best, so I added few X-Caddis emergers to my selection.

Sparkle Dun

From Fly-patterns

X-Caddis

From Fly-patterns