Caddis emergers

[DBspecial]

Just tossing it out there........caddis flies have become one of my favorite insects to fish......they are always on the water...always hatching...and always producing! Thanks La Fontaine!!

[Magnet]

I know you posted that you were upset with TPO about not getting it yet after ordering it on the 18th of May. You implied you would not do future business with TPO. Since you complained publicly on the forum, I think its only fair that you let us know whether or not you got it.

[H Dot Verseman]

Hey Magnet, I sent you a pm.

[northcountryman]

Magnet;

Like I said, its at the post office, I have to go pick it up. Aaron did as he agreed in this matter and was straight up w/ me. I have no problems w/ that.

[northcountryman]

H Dot;

How deep do you like to run your emergers? I try to keep 'em in the top 3-4inches of water. But, I just started using them this past yr cuz I thought you HAD to fish them exactly in the surface film, say, in the 1st inch of water, which is hard to consistently do 100% of the time. Is that what I should be doing though?

[tim_y]

@ DB Special as of last year, I only knew Gary LaFontaine as the inventor of the his famous Lafontaine Sparkle Caddis Pupa. That was until I found some clips on Midcurrent in their videos tab. There are a few of him where he's giving some instruction on various fishing methods and conditions. He had such a wonderful on camera personality. I wish that I had the pleasure of knowing him while he was alive. If you get a chance check them out, each one is maybe 5-10 minutes long. What I loved about him is that he always fished with his dog (Chester I think), and as anyone who has fished with me knows, my wheatie Chewbacca is normally with me patrolling the banks. An awesome teacher and innovator that the sport lost way to young.

[DBspecial]

Tim y,
Do you have his book Caddisflies? Its the caddisfly equivalent of Caucci and Nastasi Hatches II (mayflies). Both of these books are undoubtedly a necessity to a flyfishermans' libraries. They are so great for discussing the behavior of each specie from egg to nymph instars to emergence to dun to adult/spinner. The crazy thing is that every insect behaves differently in each of the aformentioned life stages and to know where the bugs are and how they are acting is a mirror of where the trout are and how they are acting!! LaFontaine was a master of insect behavior his attention to detail was insane. In one instance he would color 8 to 10 inches of his tippet white to match the web of a specie of netbuilder caddis that drifted in the current off of rocks using webbing. Anyhow, I will definetly be checking out those videos thanks for the referral tim_y. R.I.P~ Gary LaFontaine and Bob Nastasi