Colorado Fly Fishing Reports

The road to Brainard Lake is now open, allowing access to Red Rocks Lake (which winter kills every year...and this year has apparently been ...

I have never been a man of means. Unless you consider stubbornness and persistence to be means . (Maybe they are, but you sure as hell can...

Hey Jay, Here is a picture and a brief story about our trip. Netted 12 of these bad boys ranging from 9-13 lb. and there were just as many h...

John Gierach once wrote an essay entitled Camp Coffee in which he described in detail the enjoyment of taking a break while on the river--a ...

This is June on the Front Range of Colorado—the rivers are looking more and more like a giant Yoo-Hoo tanker truck jackknifed somewhere up i...

This is the time of year for the cottonwood drop. The white, fluffy seed pods have been floating around for a couple of weeks now. They can...

I have fished Lily Lake for many years. Done well, most of the time…but regardless of the quality of fishing that particular day, I invari...

Unconventional tricks. Cheap tricks. I love ‘em all. Peek into any avid fly tier’s kit bag and you will learn some cool new stuff to add to ...

Oh, there were blue skies on Memorial day, too…but the wind was putting whitecaps on one of my favorite carp flats. There were a few familie...

Thank you for all those hours of conversation. Thank you for your stories. Thank you for the big-ass bails of dubbing you used to give Rob ...

Big water season is here. Runoff has started. Blaaah. The Big Thompson has breeched 300cfs two days ago, the Poudre is raging, South Boulde...

Rainy day carp don't eat, they just watch ‘till they've seen all the flies you've got. (No...wait, that’s not how the Gordon Lig...

I can not think of a single freshwater game fish that won't eat a crayfish. The biggest brown trout in Boulder Creek, both large and sma...

As the spring wears on the local pike fishing will remain good...but it becomes more and more important that you get up early. The best fis...

No Shortage of Good Days at Rocky Mountain Anglers! I discovered John Gierach when I was a teenager. I found a beat-up copy of Trout Bum ...

Mid May…it has not been a long winter here in Colorado , but it sure has been a drawn-out and suppressed spring. Driving to work in the morn...

This is the letter written to Fly Fisherman Magazine...in full . "Yesterday, I was reading the Feb.-March issue, and on page 54 saw s...

Spinney and Antero reservoirs have been open and fishing very well in the past couple weeks. Many of you have been out to one or the other a...

This is a sensitive subject—the fly-fishing version of bringing up politics at a mixed family barbecue, or religion at the pub. The pegged e...

Not enough can be said for the importance of ones own "Quality of Life". I can not articulate a discription of the past six months...