If you walk into any fly shop in the Vail Valley right now, then I’m sure you will hear the same thing from all of the guides and shop-dogs mouths. The caddisfly hatch is the Eagle River’s best known ...

If you’re a fly-fisherman, think back on your first trout on the fly. Can you remember it? Turns out I cannot, but I do recall my teenage years spent trying to crack the code on mountain brook trout ...

It’s been 3 years since a trout looked at an Elk Hair Caddis on the Conejos river in southern Colorado. This year was different. Maybe it was because the river flow was running 150% of normal in late ...

The subject of someone's personal favorite flies to have for a specific area or time of year always sparks coversation. There are a hundred different patterns to imitate one insect or even one stage ...

DECKERS — Almost overnight, spring had turned to summer along the South Platte River. Streamside willows had leafed out, lush green grasses carpeted its banks, and here and there, under the early ...

When trout and salmon gently sip floating insects off the surface, it often means that they are feeding on hatching aquatic insects, dead-drifting with the current or just sitting on still water, ...