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In most areas where trout live, four orders of aquatic insects comprise a majority of the food the fish eat. The orders are mayflies (Ephemeroptera), stoneflies (Plecoptera), caddis flies (Trichoptera ...

A little less than a week ago, the first credible rumor of a blue-winged olive mayfly hatch made its way up the Front Range. Before that, there had been the usual false alarms from the South Platte ...

I get a little excited when the spring temperatures bring about an emergence of mayflies that haven’t been seen since last fall. The air feels good on your skin. Midges are skating across the surface ...

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 ...

BASALT – Ask a Roaring Fork Valley fly-fishing guide what their favorite time of year is to fish, and almost certainly they’ll reply with fall. Gone are the long and hot “dog days” of July and August.

Pale morning duns are one of the prettiest bugs that hatch in our local rivers. We see adults in hues pink through yellow, and the nymphs are typically rusty red in color. I consider these bugs the ...

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 ...