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 ...

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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 ...

Caddis patterns are the main staple of Western river fishermen. There are many styles and tying techniques that are effective. Most are general in nature, but tyers are always trying to be more ...

My long-range fishing plans got a boost recently when my friend invited me to fill a spot on a group trip to Alberta this summer. He booked the trip through The Fly Shop in Redding, Calif. and as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Caddis, caddis, caddis! If you walk into any fly shop in the Vail Valley right now, I’m sure you will hear same thing from all the guides and shop dogs mouths. The caddisfly hatch is the Eagle River’s ...

Besides that holiday with the flowers, candy and doubled restaurant prices, mid-February brings something else: the onset of dry fly fever. This is about the time of year when even people like me, who ...

When trout and salmon gently sip floating insects off the surface, it often means that they are feeding on hatching aquatic insects, dead-drifting with the current or just sitting on still water, ...