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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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We fly-fishers really look forward to the fall, with its cool weather and big trout. But when it arrives, it races by at breakneck speed, or at least that’s how it seems to me. Once the streams begin ...

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 ...

For most people, fall means football. For John Rodriguez of Salem fall means fly fishing. Rodriguez is known as "Mr. Bugology" for his mini match-the-hatch clinics that serve as a preamble to Santiam ...

Ask the local angler their favorite season to fish, and most will sing songs of autumn’s splendor. Summer crowds have come and gone, but one thing has stayed consistent, and that’s the fishing! With ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SALIDA — Catching a fish on the first cast can be considered an omen or a jinx. On one hand, you nailed it, did exactly what you set out to do. Mission ...