X-caddis

Hi folks, Guided the Lamoille watershed yesterday in the morning and evening.  Water temperatures ranged from 64 degrees in the early am to 70 degrees by late afternoon.  We could use some rain and it looks like we might some significant rain fall tonight.  It was a day of caddis.  Lots of cased caddis on top of and below rocks.  Yellow bodied #16/#18 caddis.  Also found a fair amount of hatching and egg laying #16/#18 olive bodied caddis.  The X-caddis was the fly of the day.  A #16 olive and tan bodied caddis caught fish equally well.  Dead drifted over rising fish and swung in riffles was really productive.  The X-caddis is simple to tie and pretty durable.  The beauty of the pattern is that it can represent a caddis pupa in the surface film, a winged adult on the surface, and an egg laying bug.  Very versatile.  Keep your thermometer handy as the water is really warming up. Small streams for wild fish and fishing the big rivers early am is the ticket right now.  I will be trout fihsing with guests later today, lets hope the thunderstorms hold off.  Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home.  Have fun, Willy