Fly Fishing Caddis & Sedges - Methods & Entomology

Fly Tying: 3 Simple Caddis Patterns

Bouncing dry flies, one of our favorite techniques to use when fishing a dry dropper rig. It involves using a high rod with a short amount of line and "bouncing" your dry fly with a jigging motion from your rod tip. It works best when your dry fly is tied off a tag that's 4-6 inches long. You also need a dropper fly that has some weight in it to keep your dry anchored during the drift, euro style flies work great for this. We often use this technique as a way to "clean up" a hole after we've fis