BASALT – As we quickly approach the month of March, several exciting changes take place along the rivers of the Roaring Fork Valley. Forget about basketball and March madness, this is the time of year ...

There’s no official fly-tying season, but if there was it would be in the depths of winter. The image of a fly tier hunched over their fly-tying vise on a cold winter’s night is about as romantic as ...

A few days ago, the trout were rising to midges. I could go into the details of which river, water temperature, weather, and everything else that goes into a day of fly fishing, but for now it’s ...

All I want for Christmas is a 10-pound trout. Preferably on a dry fly, even better on a size-24 midge dry fly. A fish this big will change you. Ruin you, if you aren’t careful. Landing a trout this ...

Charlie Craven found an epiphany in a mistake. While tying a saltwater lure, a filament went astray, twisting itself around the hook. It looked almost exactly like a freshwater midge fly pupa. Craven, ...

A dry dropper is a two-fly rig that combines a dry fly and either a nymph or emerger, allowing you to fish on the surface and subsurface at the same time. If you’re fishing shallow water but not ...

We're tying up a royal wolf dry fly with custom fly tier Tom Lienhard.

Hair salons covet them. Fly fishermen want them but are finding them increasingly hard to get. It’s fashion versus tradition. There’s hot competition these days, in Maine and across the nation, for ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. When he was seven, Charlie Craven lost all of his father’s fishing tackle during a single day of staggeringly ...

It’s 7 p.m. Wednesday and as the wind howls across Fort Collins, a crowd forms around the table of Rick Takahashi. The half-dozen anglers from Northern Colorado huddle around Takahashi, watching in ...