Fly Fishing Opportunities, Loreto, Mexico, Rocky Ridge Lakes, Deschutes Caddis, Pearl Core Braid, Oregon Shad

Following the Salmonfly Hatch will be a myriad of hatches of smaller stoneflies, mayflies and caddis. In late spring, summer and fall caddis will become the staple diet for trout in rivers and streams in the Pacific Northwest and the Rocky Mountain States. Although caddis hatches provide for some great dry fly fishing, much of the diet of most trout is consumed below the surface of the water, and much of that is deep along the bottom. When hatching, many caddis drift along the bottom of a river for a long distance close to the bottom before rising to the surface. During this stage of the hatch a weighted pupa can be the answer. In his great book Caddisflies, Gary Lafontaine explained that caddis pupas accumulate gas bubbles between their layers of skin before rising to the surface. These bubble are very reflective in nature, and become one of the keys that trout target. Silvey's Bead Caddis Pupas are constructed using Pearl Core Braid to form  perfectly reflective bodies.
Brian Silvey is a popular local fly fishing guide. Here is what Brian says about these caddis pupas:
Anglers fishing in the Rockies may not be as in tune with caddis because they have more options of food sources that trout focus on.  That gives these anglers the luxury of fishing attractor patterns, terrestrial patterns, mayfly patterns and stone fly patterns.  On the Deschutes the primary food source day in and day out for reside trout are caddis.  As a guide on this river it means I must have effective patterns that can imitate every stage of the caddis life cycle that fish will focus on to insure my clients are successful.
My Edible Emerger and Primetime Pupa are designed to target emerging caddis close to the surface or right in the surface film.  The above mentioned patterns can be fished deep for effective results but were not specifically designed to do so.
I wanted to have a caddis emerger pattern specifically designed to be fished deeper and to get deep fast.  The result of this need is the Silvey’s Beadhead Pupa.  For weight I used a bead.  I chose pearl core braid as a quick sinking material for the body.  The pearl core braid is the same size as the bead and allows me to create a seamless taper from bead to end of body closely mimicking the tapered look of the natural.  The result is a pattern that has weight to get it down quick, materials that don’t float (and are not bulky) aiding in sinking the fly. These materials do not lose their caddis shape.  And like my other pupas the use of marabou created natural movement as the pattern is fished.
Note:  Natural caddis are very quick swimmers.  Do not be afraid to increase the speed of any of your presentations.  In particular as the line tightens up and the presentation is imitating the natural swimming towards shore.  One method to increase the speed of the fly is to put a down-stream mend in your line as the flies get below you.  Another method is to use the rod tip to lead the fly to shore almost dragging / leading them into shore.  To control the speed use the rod tip as an accelerator.  The faster the rod tip is moved to shore the faster the flies will move through the water and vice versa.