I have been thinking about Mom. Days on the calendar keep getting crossed off. Mother’s Day is rapidly approaching. My gaze falls over the river. A small moth bounces across the water. Closer ...

Colorado: CFS 6,000. Hatches: Dry flies: caddis, green drakes, beatis. Nymphs:green drake, caddis, midge. Flies to use: prince nymphs (6-12), stone fly nymph (6-12), red copper johns (10-14), beatis ...

Runoff is over, the Yampa River is at its best level for floating right now and overlapping hatches of Yellow Sallies, Pale Morning Duns, Caddis, midges and Green Drakes offer excellent fly fishing ...

Are you getting your fly boxes ready for another summer? Having all of the usual insects is important but so is having the proper fly for each stage of that insect’s life cycle. Most of our native ...

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BASALT – April brings many gifts to the fly fisher in this valley, the best of which are frenzied blue-winged olive and caddis hatches. Other areas in Colorado boast of the best caddis hatches, but ...