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 ...

I just finished setting up the card table over the dogs’ kennel box in the back room. It’ll probably stay up at least until the trout opener, because it holds all the fly tying materials to the left ...

The lower Roaring Fork and Colorado Rivers are starting to make the switch from blue-winged olives to caddis hatches. The first few days of the hatch are always interesting; it takes the fish a minute ...

The cool and clear water of the autumn freestone stream was somewhat slower than I remembered it at the end of May. As I stood a few feet out into the head of a long pool and was overshadowed by the ...

October fishing conditions should include cooler water temperatures and hopefully enough rain to raise stream water levels. A wide variety of flies will work in October. Terrestrials will provide some ...

As our freestone rivers pick up the pace, the lower Roaring Fork and Colorado will make the switch from blue winged olives to caddis hatches. The first few days of the hatch are always interesting; I ...