IN THE LAND OF OCTOBER CADDIS
Growing up in and around the great rivers of the coastal West, every kid in jeans and soggy tennis shoes with a fishing rod in hand becomes intimately acquainted with caddis.
In the summer my friends and I marveled at caddis, how they constructed their little houses and clung to the plate-sized rocks in the riffles. We called them periwinkles because that’s what our daddies told us they were, but we came to understand they were the same bugs as the big, tent-winged bombers we would see in October.
Everywhere the caddis occurs it is a favorite food of trout. For anglers along the coastal rivers, the relationship of cad-dis to sea-run cutthroats is well known. We look forward to the first sightings of cutts that we see tucked up against the banks on an August day.
Across the West, particularly in the inland streams of the coastal states, as well as in Idaho and Montana, the
