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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 ...

There are any number of patterns to imitate caddis and, depending on how finicky the trout are, most patterns work well. But every once in a while, we need to get closer to the real bug with our ...

BASALT – Mother’s Day caddis. These three words make fisherman shutter in their wading boots as spring finally takes hold. Though the Roaring Fork and Colorado rivers have good mayfly hatches, both ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Last week, I offered some suggestions on assembling a basic assortment of nymph patterns for early-season trout in our region. This week, I’ll present a similar discussion targeting dry-fly patterns.

As the shadows crept out over the waters of the Bighorn River, a wavering band of insects winged along the bank. The band of black caddis was seemingly endless in length and about 10 feet wide. To ...

Green drakes, caddis, PMDs, yellow Sallies, rusty spinners: Don’t leave home without them.Major hatches are making for hot fishing conditions from Aspen to Glenwood. It’s a good time to call in sick ...