G&H Sedge

Trichoptera, ADULT

Trout · GraylingSurface

The original spun-and-clipped deer-hair sedge from John Goddard and Cliff Henry — a buoyant, tent-winged caddis with a green dubbed underbody and trimmed hair body. Marketed in the US as the Goddard Caddis, it is the unsinkable evening-sedge fly.

Fish this when

July and August evenings as the sedge hatch builds and trout that ignored everything by day come up. Cast to a riser, or twitch it across the surface to imitate an egg-laying sedge skating home.

Why it works

The clipped deer hair traps air for an unsinkable, light-footed adult-sedge silhouette, and a small twitch sends out the wake that convinces a trout it is the real, fluttering insect.

Naturals it imitates