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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Various baetis and caddis emergers trailed slightly below the surface should also take fish this time of year. The No. 1 dry fly pattern for the March Brown hatch is the Trina’s Carnage Drake March ...

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 ...

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 ...