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.

Lastly, across and downstream casts make this much easier to do on your part. This technique has trickled into most of my dry-fly fishing, whether it’s caddis, blue wings, pale morning duns, green ...

By “standard” I mean flies tied to established pattern recipes that are likely to be found in books or the fly bins of most fly shops.

Gallentine fishes a dry fly pattern like the dark-bodied elk hair caddis. Sometimes he'll tie a nymph like a pheasant tail or beadhead prince to the back of the dry fly, known as a dropper.

When late summer sets in and the fly fishing gets tough, use these tried-and-true patterns to put more fish in your net.

OUTSTUDY – They're known as cased caddis, rock rollers or periwinkles to kids probing rocky streams and fly fishermen who imitate caddis flies in their various life stages to catch trout. But ...

You may know the caddis fly as a fishing lure. But bioengineers hunting a better way to seal wounds and set bones say the larvae of these insects have a few tricks we should try to mimic.