Avon Colorado, Vail,Beaver Creek CO, United States Drier weather is making for more consistent conditions on the Colorado, where the dry fly action has been very good. Itâs Hopper/dropper season on the Colorado. B...
Colorado, United States It's Caddis season on the Eagle, Colorado and Roaring Fork Rivers. Yellow Sally's and PMD's too. The rivers are dropping as run-off is ending. Conditions are excellent! This is some of the best dry fly fishing of the year.
Meeker, Colorado, United States April 12th,
Good numbers, big fish & big fun with great friends on the White River!
Contact me if you want in on some of this.
Avon Colorado, Vail,Beaver Creek CO, United States The run-off is over. dropping and very clear. The Caddis hatch is coming any minute now. It's some of the best dry fly fishing around!! wade or float there is tons of p...
Meeker, Colorado, United States I think I found a couple new fishing buddies! The water still had a little color to it on April 8th, but as the day went on the water cleared up & water levels dropped. Making for some big grins!
Meeker, Colorado, United States May 26th,
She didn't get enough on the 25th, so she stayed & did it again on the 26th!
Thought the last pic was pretty cool...Ate'um both!
Vail, Colorado, United States http://www.vailvalleyanglers.com/fishing-conditions
Current Conditions
The upper Colorado from Pumphouse down to Dotsero is fairly icy in spots and the fishing is poor to fair. There is ...
Vail, Colorado, United States
Report Date: February 8, 2015
Current Conditions
The upper Colorado from Pumphouse down to Dotsero is icy in spots but there is now plenty of open water and the fishing is picking up. Tr...
Fd: How did it all began for you regarding Art and Fly Fishing? Michael: Fly fishing and Art came together early in my life. My father, Walter A. Simon was an artist who encouraged my efforts from the time I was 5 or 6...
Vail, Colorado, United States http://www.vailvalleyanglers.com/fishing-conditions
Current Conditions:
Excellent winter fly fishing conditions with warmer than average temps on the Roaring Fork have it fishing like...
Vail, Colorado, United States
Report Date: February 8, 2015
Current Conditions:
Excellent winter fly fishing conditions with warmer than average temps on the Roaring Fork have it fishing like it is early March. Wa...
Deckers, Colorado, United States Fishing was good but difficult. This stretch has a lot of pressure on it. Fish were eating a size 20 black zebra midge and a size 22 olive midge emerger hung under a small dry fly. Caught...
Tying with hot melt glueis not for everyone. The traditionalists will thumbtheir noses at it and subscribe to the traditionalist belief that a flyis not a fly unless its total consists only of twine, feathers and/or fur....
Vail, Colorado, United States
Report Date: February 8, 2015
Current Conditions
The fly fishing on the Eagle has been excellent as the unseasonably warm weather continues. We have even seen fish rising on most days a...
Nature lover, true fly fisherman and an exquisite photographer with a special sensitivity, he shows his three passions in his fantastic fly fishing images that have gone around the world. He has collaborated with Nationa...
Fort Collins, Colorado-based fly tier Eric Ishiwata is a dedicated student of the swung fly. And his basic design principles fall into four essential categories: profile, color, flash, and size. By fine-tuning those attr...
Fd: How did Art and Fly Fishing get together in your life? How were your beginnings in these two different fields?RMB: I have been fly fishing since I was ten years old (I am now 66), my dad taught me. I went to the Univ...
George River, Nunavik Que, Canada Weather conditions: Rain, average 8°C ;
Water Level: low water medium - high ;
Number of fishermen: 6 ;
Atlantic salmon landed & released: 21 ;
Atlantic salmon hooked & lost: 9...
There was a time when Marabou Muddlers were the flies to catch big trout. I still remember some strikes at the bend of the Chimehuin River’s La Boca (river inlet) in Patagonia with some black Marabou Muddlers almost at...
George River, Nunavik Que, Canada Weather conditions: mostly sunny, average 15°C
Water Level: low water level
Number of fishermen: 3
Atlantic salmon landed & released: 18
Atlantic salmon hooked & lost: 6
Avera...
Grand Lake Stream, Maine, United States Late June fishing is strong in Grand Lake Stream. Most fish are in the upper river now, above Big Falls. Cable, Glide, Evening, Hatchery and Dam Pools are holding nice salmon and ...
By now, word has spread much like the algal bloom that has made the rock snot a top news concern for trout anglers in Michigan. Didymo confirmed in the Upper Manistee River from November streamer float with water quality...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States âChoosing to save a river is more often an act of passion than of careful calculation. You make the choice because the river has touched your life in an intimate and irreversible way...
Piedra del Aguila, Patagonia, Argentina Writer Adrian Latimer, on one of his exploratory trips on the Limay River. This time he was targeting migratory browns on sinking lines and big streamers. Over the years Adrian fo...
One of the most important food sources for trout in Patagonia is the Sammastacus or river lobster. It is one of the three kinds of crustaceans, together with the pancoras and scuds, that inhabit these waters and which ar...
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST: https://destinationangler.libsyn.com/websitePicture this. You’re off on a fishing adventure to a new location and just arrived at the fly shop, hoping to pick up some local knowledge. It’s 7...
Fd: Can you tell us a bit about the origins of fly fishing in your country? There are lots of interesting and uncommon species for fly fishing in Czech republic besides typical brown trout, rainbow trout, grayling and br...
CATCH AND
RELEASE: HOW IT CAME TO BEToday, it is
hard to imagine a quality fishery where fly fishers do not return their catch to the water
alive. This is the standard on the rivers in Patagonia. Releasing their fish is
...
Ketchum, Idaho, United States âThere is time to go long, time to go short and time to go fishing.â
â Jesse Livermore
Fly Fishermen understand anticipation; after all, our sport is predicated by watchin...
Ketchum, Idaho, United States "When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest." ~ Ernest Hemingway
We are going to have plenty of water this summer! The average snowpack fo...
Ketchum, Idaho, United States "A year of snow, a year of plenty."
â French Proverb
The snow pack in the Big Wood drainage is currently at 172% of average and still has the potential to climb heading into spring....
Wesser, North Carolina, United States Nantahala delayed harvest section is fishing really well. Now is the time to fish. No crowds and lots of fish. Here are a couple of many fish caught on a recent guide trip with Endless River Adventures.
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States Silver Creek Outfitters Fly Fishing Forecast June 29 to July 5
"Most of the world is covered in water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick the best parts." ~ Charles Waterman
The opti...
Ketchum, Idaho, United States âTHERE IS NO TAKING TROUT IN DRY BREECHES.â â Cervantes
September is a magical time on the waters around the Wood River Valley. The days are getting shorter, the nights coo...
The season has just started in Patagonia and every year we are looking for new places and adventures. I´m a fishing guide so, this is the time were I enjoy myself with friends fishing and scouting places. This year we g...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States Fishing Forecast 5-27 to 6-3
"What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch." ~ Patrick F. McManus
Despite the rain and cool weather, a few Brown...
RÃo Gallegos, Santa Cruz , Argentina Mid December can be one of the best month of fishing The Route of the Spring Creeks. Water level is perfect, flowing in every part of each river. Trouts everywhere, but fishing als...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."~ Henry David Thoreau
When natureâs green turns to gold, it is high time to head ...
Ketchum, Idaho, United States âFishing seems awfully insignificant at times, but for those of us who love it, fishing provides opportunitiesâ opportunities to learn, to laugh, and to liveâ¦â
â Te...
Ketchum, Idaho, United States Silver Creek Outfitters Fly Fishing Forecast
"...what fishing ought to be about: using the ceremony of our sport and passion to arouse greater reverberations within ourselves." ~ Thomas McG...
Rio Manso's surrounding waters are some of the best in Patagonia for outstanding dry fly fishing during the epic dragon fly hatch. Every December, when several days of warm weather trigger the emergence of this tasty me...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "To fish, fine and far off, is the first principle rule for trout angling ." ~ Charles Cotton (1676)
This is especially true in the fall. This time of year, all our fisheries are low ...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States Fly Fishing Forecast Jan 21- Feb 3
"If a little madness be a necessary requisite to obtain the ultimate in the pleasure of angling-- then O Lord, give me insanity!" ~ John Alden Knight...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "Water is taught by thirst." - Emily Dickinson
Due to the warm weather and rain over the last week, the low altitude snow has started to melt. Our freestones and tail-waters are alread...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States Fishing Forecast 2-3 to 2-17
"I will never tire of what fishing gives me. It puts me in touch with another of nature's species, in beautiful surroundings that are old as time. This is ...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States âYellowstone River closed in response to on going fish kill.â ~Montana Fish and Wildlife Website
The parasite that is killing whitefish and trout in the Yellowstone is prese...