I wanted to go to Big Fishing Creek the other day to introduce my lab puppy "Drake" to fishing just as I did my "Trico" 11 years ago, there is a spot where you can see an entire hole and riffle at the same time and can easly handle a new wild dog on a 30' lead- well almost! The day began very cold and that was not a problem, the flies were a bit late, little black caddis, Grannom's and a few (very) few Hendrickson's. Typical caddis emergence in the AM where you have to hit every fish as soon as you see it, no blind dead drift casting at this time. The swarm moves up the stream and as there becomes more and more of them the actual emergence peters out, time to sit down and have lunch and give the puppy a big chew bone to keep the bugger quite! A few Hendrickson's did do a float by and there were no takers at all. Just a typical very early season day on Big Fishing Creek, it is a stream that takes a while to warm up and get things moving, my guess is that if you are there today (Friday) you would see an entirely different emergence BUT remember caddis tend to emerge in the morning then gather on structure and do their mating swarm later in the day, at that time a down winged spent caddis will result in a lot of fish. For the caddis hatch I use black bodies bubble back caddis with CDC and deer hair for the adult and a bead head pupa pattern.
Oh my "Drake" needs a lot of work before I can take him off his lead, he tends to be prey oriented and needs constant attention, our fault for treating like a baby.
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