October Caddis in Southeastern Washington

Was out at my place on the T------. Fished it and the Tucannon. No
biggies, lots of little cutts and a few nice ones and an occasional
decent sized rainbow (10" + is my dividing line). Hatches of
"mayflies" were erratic, lots of what i call BWOs, and still some
hoppers, HOWEVER, the surprise was the prolific October Caddis. Lots
out in the evening and probably all nite, but some were present all
day, and the brush was full of them. I don't remember ever seeing so
many here, or on the Yakima, or this early.

These puppies are an inch or more in length, long winged, a near
perfect color match with gray/brown Elk hair, and the body a dull
pumpkin/burnt orange. I love them. I find the best way to fish them is
to bounce them on the surface, paying little attention to the
direction of the flow.

I use #8 and # 10 Stimulators. However, a better match is the Dave
McNeese "Orange Caddis," which he designed to match the October Caddis
which some people call the "Fall Caddis." I believe this large caddis
is pretty much a Northwest specie.

We went thru all our stimulators by Monday. There were lots of micro
caddis on the water but with the big guys around, and with all the
tiny cutts, there was little point in going small. I was so keyed to
the surface it didn't occur to me to fish a big caddis nymph.

This has been a great year for the wheat, price wise. A good water
year also and we had a light dampening rain Sunday. Folks with alfalfa
might even get a final sparse cutting. This was our first year in
wheat and I was surprised at our little harvest dinner that the yield
went over 90 bushels an acre, and that is very very very good, Plan is
to sow hard red in early November, via no-till.

My trees are doing OK, will plant a few more next trip. Non-toxic Star
thistle control test continues. My place is too entwined with the
river to go in with the Aeriel spray program so I am trying to use
mowing and rougueing which is real work. Anyway, Great fun was had by
all.
Dave

"DaveS" wrote in message
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Was out at my place on the T------. Fished it and the Tucannon. No
biggies, lots of little cutts and a few nice ones and an occasional
decent sized rainbow (10" + is my dividing line). Hatches of
"mayflies" were erratic, lots of what i call BWOs, and still some
hoppers, HOWEVER, the surprise was the prolific October Caddis. Lots
out in the evening and probably all nite, but some were present all
day, and the brush was full of them. I don't remember ever seeing so
many here, or on the Yakima, or this early.


I spent a few days on the NF of the Clearwater and above the week of Sept.
22nd - 26th. The later part of the week was showing good numbers of October
Caddis and the Cutthroat and occasional Rainbow were definitely keying on
them.

I found that after throwing a stimulator dry through a run, you could pick
up a fish or two, when there were no more takers on the surface you could
swing the Stimulator wet and pickup another fish, sometimes if you missed a
fish on the swing, there would be two or three others chasing throughout the
swing/run.

Great fun,
JT

On 2010-10-06 13:21:04 -0400, DaveS said:

Some Ovipositing caddis imitations use a tuft of red at the end of the
body. For the life of me I don't understand what the tail on a caddis
pattern represents because the actual insect doesn't have a tail.

Dave

While there is no tail, the body does extend a bit. Ovipositing caddis
in Maine have a bright green "tail".

On Oct 8, 3:51*pm, Todd wrote:
On 10/07/2010 03:58 PM, Giles wrote:

Refresh our memory.....what is it they put in baloney?

g.

Hooves, guts ... *Pretty much the same things that get put
into weeniers.

-T

Lips and assholes is what I heard.

And you're not a riddle or an enigma.....nor wrapped in sausage.

g.

On 2010-10-08 22:09:47 -0400, Todd said:

On 10/08/2010 03:36 PM, Giles wrote:
And you're not a riddle or an enigma

Perhaps. :-)

This comes from a insult hurled at me twice by
a former stalker, now killfilled, that I
found seriously amusing. The "baloney" comes from some
humorless person, who (or is that whom) I have
forgotten, that said I sounded like a "little Wolfie".
(I am way funnier than the real Wolfie and he is
ten times the writer as I.)

One should should be careful of what insults
they hurl at other. Sometimes the intended
target actually likes them. Yankee being an
a good example.

-T

eyes rolling

On Oct 9, 8:08*am, D. LaCourse wrote:
On 2010-10-08 22:09:47 -0400, Todd said:





On 10/08/2010 03:36 PM, Giles wrote:
And you're not a riddle or an enigma

Perhaps. *:-)

This comes from a insult hurled at me twice by
a former stalker, now killfilled, that I
found seriously amusing. *The "baloney" comes from some
humorless person, who (or is that whom) I have
forgotten, that said I sounded like a "little Wolfie".
(I am way funnier than the real Wolfie and he is
ten times the writer as I.)

One should should be careful of what insults
they hurl at other. *Sometimes the intended
target actually likes them. *Yankee being an
a good example.

-T

eyes rolling

Moron.

g.

On 2010-10-09 20:33:46 -0400, Giles said:

that just about everybody does.

Yeah, but they're jealous because they don't have a trick pony and I
do. Shooot! Forgot to go down to the mail box today and get my SS
check, Navy retirement check, my anuity check, and other sundry monies.
Oh, well. It'll have to wait until Monday. sigh

Giddy up. Go pee on a tree.

Davey
(Oh, and btw, your sock puppet hasn't killfiled me, neither has your
daddy Fortenberry.) d;o)

On Oct 9, 8:26*pm, D. LaCourse wrote:
On 2010-10-09 20:33:46 -0400, Giles said:

that just about everybody does.

Yeah, but they're jealous because they don't have a trick pony and I
do. *Shooot! *Forgot to go down to the mail box today and get my SS
check, Navy retirement check, my anuity check, and other sundry monies.
*Oh, well. *It'll have to wait until Monday. *sigh

Giddy up. *Go pee on a tree.

Davey
(Oh, and btw, your sock puppet hasn't killfiled me, neither has your
daddy Fortenberry.) *d;o)

Moron.

g.

On 2010-10-09 22:00:26 -0400, Giles said:

On Oct 9, 8:26*pm, D. LaCourse wrote:
On 2010-10-09 20:33:46 -0400, Giles said:

that just about everybody does.

Yeah, but they're jealous because they don't have a trick pony and I
do. *Shooot! *Forgot to go down to the mail box today and get my SS
check, Navy retirement check, my anuity check, and other sundry monies.
*Oh, well. *It'll have to wait until Monday. *sigh

Giddy up. *Go pee on a tree.

Davey
(Oh, and btw, your sock puppet hasn't killfiled me, neither has your
daddy Fortenberry.) *d;o)

Moron.

g.

Giddy up, One Trick Pony. Giddy up. I need to go for my morning ride.
Heeeehaw.......

On 10/10/2010 8:30 AM, D. LaCourse wrote:
On 2010-10-09 22:00:26 -0400, Giles said:

On Oct 9, 8:26 pm, D. LaCourse wrote:
On 2010-10-09 20:33:46 -0400, Giles said:

that just about everybody does.

Yeah, but they're jealous because they don't have a trick pony and I
do. Shooot! Forgot to go down to the mail box today and get my SS
check, Navy retirement check, my anuity check, and other sundry monies.
Oh, well. It'll have to wait until Monday. sigh

Giddy up. Go pee on a tree.

um, Dave.....check your calender, and don't waste a perfectly good
Columbus Day at the mailboxg

Tom