This week’s edition of Tying Tuesday comes to us from Davie McPhail. The pattern he ties is an autumn emerger caddis, which is a timely pattern with fall fast approaching.

Photo by Dan Flynn

If the idea of swinging flies for steelhead intrigues you, but you don’t live near any steelhead fisheries, don’t worry. Many of the same patterns and techniques used to chase steelhead work great for chasing trout, too. Louis Cahill breaks down how to get started with swinging steelhead flies for trout in this piece over at Gink & Gasoline. 

Bobby Norgard put together this excellent story on the lanternfly hatches that are starting to become a staple of East Coast fly fishing. While many of us anglers here in the West get to fish terrestrials all summer long, folks back East now get to focus on an entirely new (albeit, invasive) bug – the lanternfly. You can read more about this bug, the fishing situations it creates, and the problems posed by its invasive nature, here.