Is it an inchworm? Is it a caddis? Who cares? These little green morsels crush big trout
IT USUALLY HAPPENS when I’m mowing the lawn in late spring or early summer. I feel a little tickle on the back of my neck, go to scratch it, and find the first fluorescent green inchworm of the year crawling across my hand. That’s when I know it’s time to start drifting a parachute inchworm fly under low-hanging branches, hoping to trick some tucked-up rainbow into taking a sip. Of course, that’s legitimately matching a hatch. The other side of the story is that whether real worms are dangling or not, neon green flies and jigs that look like them have an uncanny ability to score trout year-round, so much so that many fly guys consider them cheating.
No matter where you stand on this—even if you stand with a spinning rod— here’s how these vibrant green morsels can help you hook more big summer trout.
TRUE GREEN
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