Knowing the stages of development in a bug’s life is a critical component to successful fly fishing. Deciphering the hatch on a river is a challenging game. Larva, pupa or adult stages have been ...

Emergers and nymphs are often lumped together because they’re both fished subsurface, and they both imitate aquatic insects in pre-adult life stages. Some nymphs and emergers may look similar, but ...

If you are refilling your depleted fly boxes this winter, having all of the usual insects is important, but having the proper fly for each stage of that insect’s life cycle is even more so. Most of ...

The Mother’s Day caddis hatch — is it really on the second Sunday in May every year? Not really. It is more of a generalization for what is happening across the Rockies at that time of year. Whether ...

If you are refilling your depleted fly boxes this winter, having all of the usual insects is important – but having the proper fly for each stage of that insect’s life cycle is even more so. Most of ...

I just finished setting up the card table over the dogs’ kennel box in the back room. It’ll probably stay up at least until the trout opener, because it holds all the fly tying materials to the left ...

Green Drakes, Caddis, Yellow Sallies and Blue Wing Olives are providing great dry fly fishing on the Blue River. Barry Kirkpatrick at Cutthroat Anglers in Silverthorne says the Drake hatch is at its ...