With spring quickly approaching, it’s time for anglers to prepare their fly boxes for matching a few more hatches. Baetis — also referred to as Blue Winged Olive mayflies, Caddis and Stonefly nymphs — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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You've got your fly rod, you've got your fly line, and you've even figured out how to build the perfect leader. Things are looking good for you, a beginner fly angler. All that's left to do is to ...

I like to fish dry flies. It’s not that I dislike nymph fishing, but there’s something truly special about watching a trout rise to your fly. There are, however, times when fishing dry flies simply ...

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 ...

A little less than a week ago, the first credible rumor of a blue-winged olive mayfly hatch made its way up the Front Range. Before that, there had been the usual false alarms from the South Platte ...