If fishing a midge hatch isn’t one of the most difficult challenges that fly-fishers undertake, it’s certainly one of the quirkiest. I’d vote for it being the most difficult and the quirkiest if it ...

ELK RIVER, W.V. — One of the most difficult things to explain to your host or guide when you’re fishing “their” river for the first time is that you really do understand if you “should’ve been here ...

BASALT – As we quickly approach March, several exciting changes take place along the rivers of the Roaring Fork Valley. Forget about basketball and March Madness – this is the time of year when ...

BASALT – As we quickly approach the month of March, several exciting changes take place along the rivers of the Roaring Fork Valley. Forget about basketball and March Madness – this is the time of ...

With the return of spring and daylight savings, the trout fishing throughout the valley has been very good overall. The Fryingpan is seeing daily hatches of midges and blue wing olive mayflies from 11 ...

Short and Sweet – The river has awakened from its winter slumber as open water can now be found throughout. Increasing numbers of midges are hatching daily yielding fairly consistent dry fly activity ...

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Unlike bass, which are largely reactive eaters, trout are very specific about what they eat and when they'll eat it. That's why an indolent trout will ignore every nymph in your fly box no matter how ...

Midges, like any of the other bottom-dwelling aquatic insects, must rise through the water to reach the surface. The pupae stage occurs during this time and gives the tyer another kid of fly to tie ...

Fryingpan River: Currently flowing at 163 cfs below Ruedi Reservoir. Fishing has been great this past week. Thanks to the spring-like weather, midges have been coming off and providing some exciting ...