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Actual Caddis 
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Tan X-Caddis 
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Black X-Caddis 
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This caddis imitation was originated by Craig Matthews and John Juracek of West Yellowstone, Montana around 1980. According to Matthews, however, the inspiration came from his wife, Jackie: "A bit of fly design history here. While John and I developed the X Caddis to fool the large resident rainbow trout of the Henry’s Fork, it was my wife Jackie who came up with the idea of incorporating the flies trailing-shimmering, sparkling shuck. Her reasoning was simple and she explained it to us. If super selective trout took our world-famous Sparkle Duns with their trailing shuck for emerging and crippled-impaired mayflies why wouldn’t the same thing work with caddis imitations too? We knew that caddis, like mayflies, can experience difficulties emerging from their pupal shucks. Many end up trapped in their shucks entirely or with the shuck trailing off their bodies and wings fully emerged."