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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Food sources have been routine for trout. Midges have been the staple for months. Fish have been feeding on the mini bits of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The weather has finally started to resemble early spring. Whenever the temperatures reach into the 50s, or better yet the 60s, most anglers get a yen to go fishing. Fortunately, anglers in northern ...