Dry FlyintermediateNortheast & Mid-Atlantic
Connecticut River Caddis
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Dette Flies
Matched on Northeast & Mid-Atlantic, dry flies, trout. Catskill lineage fly shop with deep dry-fly, wet-fly, and Northeast trout relevance.
New England Fly Company
Matched on Northeast & Mid-Atlantic, dry flies, trout. New England tier lead for brook trout, landlocked salmon, and coastal striper patterns.
Fly Fish Food
Matched on dry flies, trout, caddis. Strong technical tying and trout catalog coverage, especially nymphs, dries, and stillwater flies.
Big Y Fly Co.
Matched on dry flies, trout, egg. Broad by-type catalog useful for common benchmark patterns and inexpensive backups.
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New Hampshire's state motto is 'Live Free or Die,' and the caddisflies on the Connecticut River have taken this to heart. They hatch in clouds so thick you can taste them, and every brown trout in the river rises with the abandon of someone who has just been told the buffet is closing. This sparse, low-riding pattern was refined for the educated fish that have seen every Elk Hair Caddis variation known to man and rejected most of them. The down-wing silhouette and minimal hackle sit in the film where picky trout expect their caddis to be. Dead drift it through the evening hatch and try not to set the hook on every rise within twenty feet of your fly.
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Connecticut River
NH · Freestone River
Androscoggin River
NH · Freestone River
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