The Fryingpan is seeing daily hatches of midges and blue-wing olive mayflies from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dry-fly anglers should focus on the middle stretches of the river from mile markers 8 through 12.

As our local freestone rivers begin to drop in volume, we need to add a bit of stealth factor to our fly presentations and ...

Harrop’s CDC Spent Midge — Rene Harrop said it best: “To fish is to hunt.” This tiny and technical midge dry is a don’t-leave-home-without fly. CDC Comparadun BWO — Baetis hatch heavily here in spring ...

There’s no official fly-tying season, but if there was it would be in the depths of winter.

Dry fly anglers should focus on the middle stretches of the river, from mile markers 8 through 12. The keys to success when dry fly fishing the Fryingpan is to fish tandem dry flies, rigs and to use ...

Even more reliable than the first bird of spring is the first fly hatch of spring or the last of late winter. Midges emerge almost every month of the year, but March and April seem to bring mega ...

A few days ago, the trout were rising to midges. I could go into the details of which river, water temperature, weather, and everything else that goes into a day of fly fishing, but for now it’s ...

Warm days throughout the early and middle parts of this month had me itching. Sunshine and temps above 45 in February always put one thing on my mind: midges.

I have had people tell me that the beauty of tying your own flies is that you fool the fish twice – once by your presenting the fly properly and second by tying the correct fly.

The fly is called Shy's Shucking Midge, and it's a pattern my friend Jeff Shy tied for the tailwaters in Arkansas. But his inspiration for the pattern came from rivers and tiers in Colorado.