If fishing a midge hatch isn’t one of the most difficult challenges that fly-fishers undertake, it’s certainly one of the quirkiest. I’d vote for it being the most difficult and the quirkiest if it ...

BASALT – As we quickly approach March, several exciting changes take place along the rivers of the Roaring Fork Valley. Forget about basketball and March Madness – this is the time of year when ...

ELK RIVER, W.V. — One of the most difficult things to explain to your host or guide when you’re fishing “their” river for the first time is that you really do understand if you “should’ve been here ...

BASALT – As we quickly approach the month of March, several exciting changes take place along the rivers of the Roaring Fork Valley. Forget about basketball and March Madness – this is the time of ...

Short and Sweet: Spring is definitely in full swing up Fryingpan way right now. There are spawning rainbows throughout – please be kind to these vulnerable fish. Midges are pouring off with the cloudy ...

Fryingpan River: Currently flowing at 163 cfs below Ruedi Reservoir. Fishing has been great this past week. Thanks to the spring-like weather, midges have been coming off and providing some exciting ...

Midges, like any of the other bottom-dwelling aquatic insects, must rise through the water to reach the surface. The pupae stage occurs during this time and gives the tyer another kid of fly to tie ...