Columbia River Part 3: High Water Caddis Pupae

Welcome to the final Columbia River video from our time last April-May. We floated down from an access just south of Castlegar, floating toward Trail, BC, Canada.

Personal preference has us again targeting trout with a single caddis pupae. There’s a theme throughout these videos of the “has to be there” locations. For those of you that are newer to fly fishing in general, it’s really important to pay close attention to the “where” we’re fishing in this particular Columbia River video set, as the seamlines and speed of current where we’re fishing (and catching) is universal no matter where you fish in the world. Deflection seams, buckets and troughs are king, a universality of the dancing water of the seams you see here.

The caddis pupae patterns used are exactly those in the “Dave’s Fly Box: Caddis Pupae & Emergers” video shared in last week’s release for our full membership.

This was the second day for us on the river at that time and a week of warmer temps (25 – 30 C or 77F – 86F). As you see in the video we were faced with fly fishing higher & rising, slightly off color water compared to the evening prior. As you’ll plainly see in our journey back upstream, creeks entering the Columbia were chugging brown colored water. Run off began that day. It was substantial enough when it came to a flow increase as Dave shares specifically in the first few minutes of the video.

Some of you may wonder why, given how good the fishing, would we drive 4 1/2 hrs from home the first morning only to leave the next afternoon by 4pm to drive home? Wasn’t the fishing incredible and worth sticking around for?

more…. See the full video & Producers’ Notes at our Patreon Channel!