Also an Elk Hair Caddis can bring strikes. Some caddis don t hatch from the water but prefer to swim to the shore to hatch. They crawl out of the water with their pupal shuck intact. A prime example of this activity is the large October Caddis Dicosmoecus . With this type of hatch dry adult patterns or only useful when the females return to the water to lay eggs.
Egg laying flights can result in some great trout feeding activity.
Dipping caddis fly an erratic path over the water and dip the tip of their abdomens to the surface and deposit one or several eggs at a time. This flight is unpredictable and hard for trout to time. Although this type of egg laying activity is easy for the angler to see it usually draws little attention from the trout. Broadcasting can result in huge densely packed flights of caddis flying within an inch of the water, laying eggs as they fly upstream. Their wings are beating so fast that they look like little balls of fluff suspended above the water.