Bread Crust
136-10
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The Bread Crust is a hundred-year-old caddis answer: a rusty-orange segmented body under a sweeping grizzly soft-hackle collar. Fished in or under the film, it covers emerging caddis pupae and drowned adults—the stages trout eat most and anglers imitate least.
The soft hackle is the engine: every current tongue folds and flares it, breathing life into the drift the way stiff-hackled flies never do.
Best for:
- Caddis emergences, in or under the film
- Swing-and-lift presentations
- Riffle tailouts at dusk
📌 Pro Tip: Fish it as the lifting half of the drift—dead-drift through the run, then let it rise at the end like a pupa heading topside; the take comes on the lift.