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Book SynopsisThis paperback edition of a classic presents stunning and detailed color photographs of more than 100 species of caddisflies. Caddisflies takes the myth and the mystery out of matching the hatch by teaching you how to identify them and giving valuable tips on how to fish the hatch. Includes 80 recipes for caddis patterns—from pupae to adult.
Trade ReviewAs caddis are the king of flying insects for Eastern fly fishers, Thomas Ames’s book shouts ‘Long live the king!’ This is an amazingly complete reference on one of the bugs fly fishers most commonly imitate with flies. -- Joe Healy, Fly Rod & Reel
The sections on stream ecology and fishing techniques are the best since Gary LaFontaine’s landmark book and alone are worth the price of admission. The photographs and descriptions make identifying a caddisfly to the genus level as easy as using a standard field guide to the birds. Ames’s writing is just plain enjoyable to read, with crisp, clean prose and lots of the details that make for great natural history writing. I can’t wait for the next caddis hatch so I can try out all the new stuff I’ve learned! -- Tom Rosenbauer, Orvis Rod & Tackle
This book is inspiring: it will inspire you to look more closely at your own caddis, wherever in the world you might fish for trout. And it will inspire you to tie some new patterns to match caddis and to get out there on water, where it all starts and ends, and put what Tom has taught you to use against the trout. -- Dave Hughes, Flyfishing & Tying Journal
Table of ContentsPrologue PART 1: On Caddisflies and Angling 1. Introduction: Between the Two Extremes 2. Caddisflies and the American Angling Tradition 3. The Biology of Caddisflies 4. Habitat 5. Presentation: Tackle and Techniques PART 2: The Eastern Caddisflies 6. Methods 7. Rhyacophiloidea, The Primitive Caddisflies 8. Hydropsychoidea, The Fixed-Retreat Makers 9. Limnephiloidea, the Tube-Case Makers: Set One the Aquatic Egg-Layers 10. Limnephiloidea, the Tube-Case Makers: Set Two The Limnephilid Complex Appendix 1: Pattern Recipes Appendix 2: Hatch Charts for Eastern Caddisflies Appendix 3: Habitat and Behaviour of Eastern Caddis Genera, by Family Appendix 4: A Modern Taxonomy of Eastern Caddisflies Bibliography Credits and Acknowledgements Index
