Meeker, Colorado, United States It's that time of the year midges & Blue wings!
Had a great time on the water with these boys last weekend! With morning temps in the mid 30's & daytime temps running in the mid 50's it's...
Meeker, Colorado, United States Hereâs a few picâs from a great day on the White with a long time guest. The weather was a bit cold, but the fishing was hot! No monsters, just good quality fish. Drop me a line ...
Meeker, Colorado, United States The boys are back in town & they found the browns today!
Looks like the cool weather is going to stick with us for the next couple of weeks holding back a early run-off. So, if ya want i...
Meeker, Colorado, United States April 28th
I'm sure it wont last long! But, a few days of cold weather cleared the water up on the White giving us a chance to go stick a few. Great Day!
Meeker, Colorado, United States March 24th;
The water is in great shape, making for some happy, happy fish & guests. Hit me up if your itching to get out of the house.
Meeker, Colorado, United States May 25th,
The forecast called for heavy winds & 80% chance of rain...the weather man was wrong, forecast for big browns...spot on!
Meeker, Colorado, United States March 21st;
With the cool nights holding back an early run-off, the river & spring creeks have been in great shape & fishing good! Look me up if your looking to get out.
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.
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!
Meeker, Colorado, United States April 13,
The White finally blew out today, so we slipped into one of the spring creeks. Not the numbers from yesterday, but hard to complain when you get to touch some brown gold!
Meeker, Colorado, United States April 21st
If you don't like the weather, just wait 5 minutes. We had it all today at the K-T rain, snow, sleet, wind & a little sunshine for lunch!
I still have a few openings throughou...
Avon Colorado, Vail,Beaver Creek CO, United States 10/12/2017- The conditions on the Eagle River are fantastic right now. The dry fly conditions have been great from mid morning on. BWOâs & Midges have been the ...
Avon Colorado, Vail,Beaver Creek CO, United States The flows have dropped below floating levels today, but the river is in amazing condition! Still great Caddis, Stonefly and PMD hatches. Dry fly fishing is excellent es...
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...
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...
Simplicity is the key to most fishing. How much simpler can one get than to find an all-white fly, that is so easy to tie, that even I - a completely incompetent fly-tier - can tie one. But not only tie it, b...
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...
Vail,Beaver Creek, Vail,Beaver Creek CO, United States 7/14/2017- Itâs crazy good out there! Wade it or float it just get it. Flows are perfect for float fishing right now. Fish are holding pretty tight to the ba...
Five years have passed since my last trip through the Yelcho Lake area. From that moment, the tales of fishing for Tuna and Sierra fish in the sea always resounded in my mind, and it is just 45 km away from the Yelcho Lo...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States http://silver-creek.com/blogs/report/fly-fishing-forecast-april-16th-29th/
âBut pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls ...
From high alpine creeks where the finesse of a three-weight is all you need to the major river drainages where throwing giant streamers with seven-weights is the name of the game, Colorado is a great place to experience ...
Vail, Colorado, United States The Eagle River is one of the last true large freestone rivers in Colorado. The Eagle runs right through the heart of the Vail Valley. Starting itâs 77 mile journey high above the valle...
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...
Vail,Beaver Creek, Vail,Beaver Creek CO, United States 7/14/2017- The Colorado is fishing as well as you could imagine right now! Great hatches of Caddis, Stoneflies and Pale Morning Duns. Itâs also Hopper season o...
Avon, Vail,Beaver Creek CO, United States 10/12/2017- Itâs been absolutely amazing up on the Colorado all summer and early fall! Dry fly fishing has been incredible pretty much the entire day. Start small with an ...
This year started as it should, great fishing, good people and wild places. After guiding many years with my friends of Loop Adventures I started my own business working sometimes alone and some others with colleagues. G...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in [Idaho] won't make it 'white'." ~ Bing Crosby
What is it that gets you into the Christmas spirit? For us, ...
Avon Colorado, Vail,Beaver Creek CO, United States It's Hopper season on the Colorado! great action on the big dry/dropper program. Good flows for wading or floating right now. The Colorado is a beautiful trout fishery.
On the fly fishing map of the world, Russia is still mostly a white spot. This is especially true of the Russian Far East: this vast region (the size of the North American coast from Mexico to Alaska) is not well known a...
Fd: How has the 2017/18 season been?The season has started very well. Even though we had a lot of rain early on, the fishing has been very good with some large browns, rainbows and brook trout caught. Now we are especi...
Vail,Beaver Creek, Vail,Beaver Creek CO, United States Steady flows throughout run-off has kept the fishing very consistent. Good hatches of Caddis, yellow Sallies and Pale Morning Duns. Great float fishing right now. ...
I learned about this fly some time ago, when I first started in the Fly Fishing guide business. My co-workers told me to look for it in the Montana Fly Co. directory. At first I thought it was just another kind of Cherno...
The Zonker Variation is a particular streamer that was created by Dan Byford from Steamboat Springs in the 80s. It has resisted time with only some slight modifications in its original style and design. We have used it f...
Without even thinking about it I was back at the Jurassic Lake plateau. By observing the lava surroundings of the green pond I had a strong feeling that in this basaltic plateau, deeply eroded by the winds, there is some...
First published in Rod and Reel: 2/15/1985Roadkill StreamersOf the 364 four pound (or larger) trout painted on the walls of DanBailey's Fly Shop in Livingston Montana:7% were taken on small wet flies.12% were t...
Bombers and their relatives, Buck Bugs, are flies from New Brunswick, born in the famous Miramichi River. These deer hair flies have then found a place in remote distant waters such as those in cold Russia, Pacific steel...
This is a tribute to my friend Billy Pate who died on April 19 at the age of 81. The name Billy Pate is linked with incredible, mind blowing, fly fishing records, as well as with the renowned Billy Pate Fly Reels made b...
The concepts of "beautiful" or "good" river quite subjective. Typically, we put in them different meanings, but there are common points such as untouched, beautiful landscape around, comfortable size of the river, conv...
Fd: So tell us, who is ATA Lodge and where is ATA Lodge located? ATA Lodge is a family owned and operated lodge on the fabled Alagnak Wild River of Bristol Bay, South West Alaska. Wayne (myself) and Jacob (my son) are t...
Fd: How did fly fishing and photography get together in your life? Nick: I grew up fly fishing from a very young age. My mother is the major angler in my family and there hasn’t been a day in my life that I’ve had w...
Fd: Can you tell us about your beginnings and setting up your guiding service in British Columbia? I started guiding back in 1996 mostly as a flyfishing guide for Salmon and Trout on local rivers and some interior lakes ...
Ketchum, Idaho, United States âPerhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers. If so, Iâm glad I thought of it.â
â Roderick L. Haig-Brown
If you are looking for an excuse to be near ...
Due to its great underwater movement, the leech-like flies are unbeatable when we go for big fish. If well designed, these are not heavy to cast and don’t tangle, something key when we are casting at our maximum ski...
This is one of the flies that cannot be missing in the box of any dry fly addict. The attractor pattern is similar to the Irresistible Adams in its design. It has great buoyancy because it is tied with deer h...
For the last six years, early spring has meant a journey to the North Platte River in central Wyoming. The river is packed with large, aggressive and hungry trout. The land that surrounds the water has the characterist...
With only 3 months to go before opening day on the Alagnak Wild River of Bristol Bay, Alaska; ATA Lodge is looking forward to another great season. It is about this time we start to get that itchy feeling that starts ti...
Boone, North Carolina, United States I fished Sunday morning at Helton Creek. (I guide near Boone, NC as well as Florida's Everglades)The temperature was about 42° when I started and pretty much had the creek to mysel...