Boulder River — Fish big attractor patterns, like royal Wulffs and Turk's tarantulas and stimulators. A big 'hop per pattern, called a Club Sandwich, is working. Ants are also taking fish. For trail ...

On July 20, 1969, as Neil Armstrong was becoming the first man to put bootprints on the moon, I was getting my first introduction to the sport of fly-fishing on an icy mountain stream in Idaho. It ...

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 ...

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A close second would be, “What (or how many) fly patterns do I need to have to be successful most of the time? Those are both valid queries, and ones which reflect the quintessence of fly-fishing. On ...

The trout-approved Rubber Legs fly. / Photo by Jasper Taback I like to fish dry flies. It’s not that I dislike nymph fishing, but there’s something truly special about watching a trout rise to your ...

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For the longest time, anglers would tell me that what they landed their fish on was a San Juan worm. And even though I used various worm patterns, I never could seem to catch anything on one. Of ...