Duranglers June Monthly Report – The Dawn of Summer Despite the February-like May, the dawn of summer is almost upon us. June is game time for fly fishing in Durango and while runoff is currently kicked into high gear; there is still plenty of trout to be found. With the constant producer of the San…
Animas Lunch Report – 5/28/15 – Colorado Grand Slam Derek; one of the recent additions to the Duranglers shop staff and aspiring trout wizard, made the magic happen yesterday with a Colorado grand slam. (A Colorado grand slam is catching a brown, rainbow, brook, and cutthroat trout all in one day) With runoff picking up…
Animas Lunch Report – 5/27/15 – Tarpon, Bow to the King Tarpon: if you are planning a trip to Florida in the next few weeks, this means something to you. Check out Redington’s new episode of Find Your Water showing the king of saltwater flats fly fishing, and peep the King Sticker too! Find Your Water:…
Animas Lunch Report – 5/26/15 – Let it Snow It’s raining here. It has been raining here. It is going to continue to rain. Apparently Durango decided to dress up like Seattle this May. The truth of the matter is that when it has been raining here in town, it is snowing up high. Our…
Animas Lunch Report – 5/22/15 – Get Used To It Well the Animas is in full fledged runoff now, and it will be for a while. It’s time to get used to it. Even as we are in full runoff, it continues to snow in the high country adding more to our every increasing snowpack. It’s…
Animas Lunch Report – 5/21/15 – Float Season Throwback How about another throwback photo to remind us that the float season is right around the corner! John with the old school Sage hat, massive bow, on an unnamed Colorado river. Summer is almost upon us! Kyle – Now would be a good time to seine the Animas to…
Animas Lunch Report – 5/20/15 – The Colorado Bonefish You may have noticed that this time of year, a lot of the Duranglers squad seeks out alternate fly fishing options. Most of us are exhausting our energies and spending our free days seeking out the violent pike. Bass is also an option, although it is a…
Animas Lunch Report – 5/19/15 – Return From the South Well Kyle and company made it back from their trip to Turneffe Flats in Belize this past week. Stories of high winds made for tough conditions but there were still a few shots at permit along with a few tarpon eats and a lot of…
Animas Lunch Report – 5/18/15 – Fish In A Barrel As you can see, Cory Crave is super excited about the stocking truck’s visit to Texas Hole. Hey, at least the big boys will eat fingerling sized streamer now! Andy – The Animas came up today to about 1440 cfs. Even though the the clarity decreased,…
Animas Lunch Report – 5/15/15 – Engler Mark Engler is probably a better fly fisherman than you. I am sorry to tell you this, but it’s true. Not only that, but he is probably better at a lot of things than you. I mean no offense, but it is the way of things. I include…
Animas Lunch Report – 5/14/15 – Carrot Nymph Andy – Today, I added all of Bill Flick’s wood fly carvings to our online shop (if you have not seen these, check them out here, they are really cool). The carvings by Bill are a resemblance of the flies of yesteryear. Not many people still use a…
Animas Lunch Report – 5/13/15 – Lower D Blue skies, blue winged olives…but no blues. That is the recent report from Corky and his client Tom after a day on the Lower D. While the water is very low and the fish are spooky, the high desert canyon scenery makes this place one of a…
Animas Lunch Report – 5/12/15 – 7 Inches of Sink Tip Temps are rising and runoff picking up again today (Animas at 1140 cfs). Increasing flows mean rising temps on our local reservoirs and lakes. We would like to highly encourage our fellow anglers to make a trip out to a local stillwater. Magic is happening…
Animas Lunch Report – 5/11/15 – Obscene Trout Porn Our friend Stephen recently made it back from a 4 month fly fishing mission he took to New Zealand. His goal was big fish. He found big fish. With over 40 trout landed that measured over 10 pounds… yadda yadda, whatever…seriously I don’t even know what to…
Animas Lunch Report – 5/8/15 – Island Time Welp, today is Kyle’s last day in the shop for the next week. He is off to Turneffe Flats in Belize tomorrow and has set his watch to island time with a saltwater grand slam on his mind. We all currently hate him. Kyle – I am off to catch…
Animas Lunch Report – 5/7/15 – Dropping In As we have already discussed, there is plenty of fishing to be found during runoff. There are also plenty of other things to be done during runoff. Yardwork, house chores, spring cleaning, catching up on work, or working on that kickflip you never quite perfected in high…
Animas Lunch Report – 5/6/15 – Facebook Politics This installment of the Animas Lunch Report really has nothing to do with Facebook, or politics. Just how to make the world a better place through fly fishing. Protip: the next time you want to emotionally react to someone’s political opinion on Facebook; you should go fishing…
Fly Fishing During Runoff Don’t let the flows get you down, check out our guide to fly fishing during runoff featured on durango.org! You too can find fish during the season of mud! -Andy
Animas Lunch Report – 5/5/15 – Creek Trout Andy – For no other reason than to say that I could, I headed to a local creek on lunch to see if I could find some small stream trout. Our local creeks are high, cold, off color, and it was raining today. Irregardless, I brought in a few fish…
Duranglers 2015 New Flies Check out our lineup of new flies! From top to bottom, left to right: Halloween Rubber Bugger, Olive Rubber Bugger, Brown Rubber Bugger, Peacock Rubber Bugger, Brown Snot Rocket, Fat Head Moth, Size 16 Royal Chubby, Size 10 Royal Chubby, Canadian Olive Goat Leech, Hare’s Stone Golden Brown, Hare’s Stone Bloody Black, Rainbow Snot Rocket, Turneffe Crab, Baby Boy Cricket, Tan Bubble Back Caddis, Olive GTI…
Duranglers May Monthly Report “If you don’t listen to country, you do now.” Offhand warnings spoken to our summer help on their first days in the shop. Training new fly shop guys just reinforces that May is here. For us at Duranglers, May is pretty much summer. We are scrambling to get everything in order…
Animas Lunch Report – 5/4/15 – May the 4th Be With You May the Fourth is here, bring on the weird weather and flows until summer arrives. Also get stoked on Star Wars today. Andy – The flows bumped up over the weekend to over 1000 cfs. We are in runoff mode…although the cooler weather and rain…
Animas Lunch Report – 5/1/15 – May Day Did you know that today is May Day? Yep! Fun fact, most people don’t know what May Day actually celebrates. I don’t know either. Andy – It’s a shorts, t-shirt, and flip flops kind of day. With warmth like this, no wonder the Animas flows are shooting up.…
Animas Lunch Report – 4/30/15 – TU Banquet 5 Rivers Trout Unlimited’s mission of conserving, protecting and restoring the trout rivers of SW Colorado cannot be accomplished without the generous financial donations of local anglers and river lovers. Please join 5RTU to celebrate their recent successes and help sustain their important work. This Saturday, May 2nd…
Animas Lunch Report – 4/29/15 – San Juan River For better or worse, we are seeing some changes around here. Warmer weather, higher flows, more activity in the fly shop, and fish switching tactics on us. Summer is on it’s way. With the current weather, the Animas may have a few more days before clarity and…
