Photo: Naturalist Observation, c. 1912.
Hatch

Caddisflies (Sedges)

The big mid-summer dry-fly event. Caddis (and the larger "travelling sedge") prevail from late June through August — skating/twitching a sedge on a summer evening draws aggressive rises on both lakes and rivers.

Hatch timing / abundance

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Late June → August; travelling-sedge action mid-July (e.g. rosebud lake) gofishbc articles 2026 06.
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Overlaps the trip window (18 Jul–5 Aug) — a key evening hatch to watch.

Imitated by

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Caddis/sedge dries: Goddard Caddis, Mikulak Sedge, Tom Thumb, elk hair caddis, corn fed caddis, mass attack, rockerka, front end loader, klinkhammer gofishbc articles 2026 06 creston flyfishing web research 2026 06.

Data & occurrence sources

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Confirm and expand the Found in list and abundance with hard data — benthic-sample communities via CABIN, occurrence records via GBIF (roll up taxa per watershed) and iNaturalist, DNA-barcode IDs via BOLD. Access, licences and the FWA-segment join method are in aquatic invertebrate and river health data sources 2026 07.

Related

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match the hatch stillwater — evening progression.
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mayflies — the other main summer dry hatch.

Sources

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Go Fish BC articles — timing, patterns.
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Creston web research — evening dry-fly note.