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 ...

Traditionally fished in the down-and-across presentation common to wet flies, the natural materials of a soft hackle fly impart dramatic and lifelike motion in river currents, resembling mayflies and ...

For those of you who are new to the game or have been holed up in some dark, far-off place, I would like to introduce and recommend a very effective way to fish our rivers and streams here in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Various baetis and caddis emergers trailed slightly below the surface should also take fish this time of year. The No. 1 dry fly pattern for the March Brown hatch is the Trina’s Carnage Drake March ...

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 ...