A close second would be, “What (or how many) fly patterns do I need to have to be successful most of the time? Those are both valid queries, and ones which reflect the quintessence of fly-fishing. On ...
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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 ...
What do you picture when you think of fly fishing for trout? If your answer is casting a bug imitation that floats and then watching a fish rise to sip it off the surface, I’d say you fall in with the ...
The No. 1 dry fly pattern for the March Brown hatch is the Trina’s Carnage Drake March Brown (14). A good dry fly tactic is to fish a tandem rig using a larger spotter dry fly along with a smaller dry ...
April means many things to fly fishers. For most, it rings in the fair-weather fishing season, as the first waves of blue winged olives and caddis arrive with those April showers. If you’ve ever ...
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 most of us ...
Boulder River: Try stonefly nymphs like North Fork specials, bitch creeks, Jimmy legs and girdle bugs with either a copper John, prince nymph, hare’s ear or pheasant tail as a dropper. It is not too ...
April means many things to fly fishers. For most, it rings in the fair-weather fishing season, as the first waves of blue winged olives and caddis arrive with those April showers. If you’ve ever ...