X-Caddis Tan

The X-Caddis was developed in the late 1980s by Jackie Mathews, wife of well-known Yellowstone angler Craig Mathews, and published together with John Juracek in the influential book "Fishing Yellowstone Hatches". The trigger was an observation many fly fishers share: during heavy caddis hatches, trout refused classic, fully emerged adult imitations - they were keying in specifically on flies still stuck in their pupal shuck. The X-Caddis imitates exactly that moment of emergence.

The X-Caddis is fished dead-drift during a caddis hatch, when trout are feeding selectively on struggling emergers - an essential fallback when classic caddisfly imitations are being refused.

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