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 ...

As our freestone rivers pick up the pace, the lower Roaring Fork and Colorado will make the switch from blue winged olives to caddis hatches. The first few days of the hatch are always interesting; I ...

LIVINGSTON — May is a month when trout gorge. Following a long winter of fairly skimpy food, the emergence of the prolific Mother's Day caddis provides an opportunity for gluttony. Fly anglers rejoice ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. It's a classic hatch. Swarms of caddis flies emerging from the green waters of the Yellowstone ...

LAKEVIEW -- On Thursday, Jarrod Ruggles changed my entire philosophy about fly fishing while treating me to one of my best fishing trips ever. Ruggles is one of the fine young anglers that guides ...

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 ...

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 ...

The mayfly may be the “fly” in fly-fishing, but caddis flies are at least as important a source of food to trout — far more important, in fact, on some streams. Still, the number of fly patterns ...

Caddis flies are low floaters and are sometimes difficult to see on the water for some of us older anglers. One way to assist us in visibility is to use the parachute application on a conventional ...