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Uses for Soft Hackle

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IMITATES

SIZES

COLORS

WHERE USED

PRESENTATION

Yellow quill Emerger

10-14

Yellow body and wing; gray-brown body

Riffles, below riffles

surface swing

Pale evening dun Emerger

10-16

Olive-brown, brown

Bankwater

surface swing

March brown Emerger

10-14

Brown

Near riffles, flats

surface swing

Weedy water caddis Pupa

14-16

Body: green

Slow-moderate runs with weeds

surface swing, shallow nymph

Weedy water caddis Egg-layer

14-16

Body: black; Wing: black

Slow-moderate runs, current seams, backeddies

surface swing, shallow nymph

Grannom Pupa

12-16

Green

Riffles, moderate-fast runs; just below these

surface swing, shallow nymph

Grannom Egg-layer

12-16

Body: brown; Wing: black

Riffles, current seams, backeddies below riffles

surface swing, shallow nymph, rising nymph

Saddle-case caddis Pupa

14-18

Body: tan, green

Riffles, fast runs; just below these

surface swing, shallow nymph

Saddle-case caddis Egg-layer

14-18

Body: tan, olive-brown; Wing: dark brown, black

Riffles, seams, backeddies below riffles

surface swing, shallow nymph, rising nymph

Spotted caddis Pupa

10-14

Body: tan, brown, yellow-tan, green

Riffles, runs, just below riffles

surface swing, shallow nymph

Spotted caddis Egg-layer

10-14

Body: brown; Wing: black

Riffles, current seams, backeddies below riffles

surface swing, shallow nymph, rising nymph

Green caddis Pupa

8-14

Body: green, brown

Riffles, just below riffles

surface swing, shallow nymph

Green caddis Egg-layer

10-14

Body: green, olive, brown; Wing: dark brown, black

Riffles, backeddies below riffles, current seams

surface swing, shallow nymph, rising nymph

Longhorn caddis Pupa

8-16

Body: black, brown, white

Lakes; backwaters and slow sections of rivers

verticle retrieve, slow retrieve

Northern caddis Pupa

6-10

Body: Ginger, brown

Lakes; backwaters and slow sections of rivers

slow retrieve, verticle retrieve

Traveling sedge Pupa

4-10

Brown, green , yellow, gray

Lakes; backwaters and slow sections of rivers

slow retrieve, verticle retrieve

Microcaddis Pupa

22

Body: yellow, brown, orange

moderate to slow flows

surface swing, deep swing

Microcaddis Egg-layer

22

Body: dark brown, green

moderate to slow flows

surface swing

Aquatic beetle Adult

4-12

Black, brown

Lakes, backwaters

count-down-and-retrieve

Alderfly Adult

8-12

Black

Lakes; backwaters and slow sections of rivers

count-down-and-retrieve, chuck-and-sit

Aquatic moth Egg-layer

10-18

light brown, tan

runs

surface swing, deep swing


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