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 ...

The river is reaching summer flow levels rapidly. Water temperatures are making a rise. Insect activity is producing stellar ...

The caddis hatch – an eagerly awaited event for this angler if only so she can tie on a fly that she can actually see – has begun in earnest on the Colorado and lower Roaring Fork rivers.A dry caddis ...

Here's a step-by-step of fly fisherman Gary Jones ' top three dry flies for the Mother's Day caddis hatch. Secure the thread on a size 16 dry fly hook and dub it with a blend of olive and grey dubbing ...

I have been thinking about Mom. Days on the calendar keep getting crossed off. Mother’s Day is rapidly approaching. My gaze falls over the river. A small moth bounces across the water. Closer ...

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 ...

About the time that the most famous hatch comes off (The Green Drake) other flies appear that last throughout the entire season. They are the Caddis flies, and are a very important part of the trout's ...

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