By Tim Romano

Thought I'd dig deep in the archives today and pull from a crazy fishing  trip that got me into this industry. About 8 years ago one of my best friends and I decided to travel to New Zealand and fish. We didn't want to go for a week or even two. We wanted to do it right, and doing it right meant saving up a ton of money and quitting our jobs. I was waiting tables and my friend Malcolm was working in a fly shop. We saved for about a year, booked some plane tickets, bought a crappy van, and were on our way.

By Tim Romano

By Tim Romano

Our resident fly guy, Jason Borger is here again. This time he weighs in with a slightly different twist on one of the most popular patterns of all time - the elk hair caddis.

In Jason's words...

The Poly Caddis (see upper right fly in the photo) is one of my father's old patterns from the 1970s (1972 if you want to be precise). The fly is a take-off on the classic Elk Hair Caddis (one of the all- time "greats" in trout fishing), but uses a synthetic, polypropylene wing to easily get different effects/colors (also makes it easy to tie in small sizes), and it also uses a trimmed X-Hackle for the legs (also a benefit in tiny sizes). Simple to tie, looks great, very effective. Nothing "special," just a solid pattern that does what it is supposed to do.