Dry FlybeginnerAlaska
Elk Hair Caddis
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Available Sizes#10 - #16
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Alaska Fly Fishing Goods
Matched on Alaska, rainbow trout, salmon. Alaska-specific fly shop with fly categories for trout, char, grayling, salmon, and steelhead.
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Fly Fish Food
Matched on dry flies, trout, caddis. Strong technical tying and trout catalog coverage, especially nymphs, dries, and stillwater flies.
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Fulling Mill Flies
Matched on dry flies, trout, dry. Large pattern house with broad freshwater and saltwater fly categories.
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Big Y Fly Co.
Matched on dry flies, trout, dry. Broad by-type catalog useful for common benchmark patterns and inexpensive backups.
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Dette Flies
Matched on dry flies, trout, dry. Catskill lineage fly shop with deep dry-fly, wet-fly, and Northeast trout relevance.
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Visit sourceThe Elk Hair Caddis works on every trout stream on Earth, and Alaskan rivers are no exception. When caddis hatch on the clear-water tributaries of the Bristol Bay drainage, Arctic grayling rise with the enthusiasm of fish that have not seen a dry fly in months -- because they have not. The elk hair wing floats this fly through pocket water that would drown lesser patterns, and the grayling eat it with dorsal-fin-first rises that never get old.
Quick Facts
TypeDry Fly
Difficultybeginner
SeasonsSummer
Target SpeciesArctic Grayling, Rainbow Trout, Dolly Varden
Sizes#10 - #16
Best LocationsBristol Bay rivers, AK; Kanektok River, AK; Copper River, AK
Where to Fish It
Bristol Bay rivers
AK · Remote Stream
Kanektok River
AK · Remote Stream
Copper River
AK · Salmon River
Map unavailable. Locations for Elk Hair Caddis: Bristol Bay rivers, AK; Kanektok River, AK; Copper River, AK
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