Wired Stonefly – Pat’s Rubberlegs Variation Tying Tutorial The Wired Stonefly is an amazing Umpqua signature fly pattern from the mind of Brad Befus that drops quick into the depths of any river. Stonefly nymphs are a must-have here in Colorado where ever stones are present (and even where they are not). This is our…
Animas Lunch Report – 10/27/17 – The Most Important Thing You Will Read Today It’s fall dudes. Actually, fall is almost half over. It feels weird, like the opposite of Deja Vu; “How are we here now? shouldn’t it still be summer?” Because of that, we have something important to tell you. It will probably…
New and Notable Gear For Fall Brisk days and crunching leaves underfoot. Browns are maneuvering and posturing. Elk are bugling. Pumpkin spice everything abounds at the grocery store. It’s Fall. This time of year, after the height of the summer Colorado trout excitement, things tend to slow down a little bit and we find ourselves able to take…
Animas Lunch Report – 8/30/17 – Recent Catches How has the fishing been lately? A little like this…
Animas Lunch Report – 8-23-17 – Macabre Pictures Running through a few photos from this past summer, I came across a handful that were worth a second look. Reminders of the finite nature of our existence, these photos expose the mortal nature of our lives. Some of these you may find calming, while others are downright…
Animas River Lunch Report – 8-21-17 – Total Eclipse of the Report So if it isn’t evident by now…we have been pretty swamped and have not had much opportunity to bring to the masses our usually consistent Animas Lunch Report. We kicked off our video reports….and then fell off the map. Summer hits like that around…
Thursday Motivation: Mental Baby Poons Is Thursday slogging along? Take a minute out of your day to recharge with this ridiculously sweet video from RepYourWater and Livit Films featuring some of the most fun fish on the planet.
River Trash: Big Problems, Small Solutions Don’t be trash, pick it up instead! The growing issue of trash in and around our waterways was brought to my attention in force a few weeks back while I was fishing with a buddy in the Kremmling area. We locked down a beautiful run, and began the conquest…
Rob and Andy’s Excellent Florida Adventure Up on the Redington blog today is a the story and recap of a trip Rob and I took to Florida this past March. Tarpon, snook, and questionable watercraft choices. Check it out here: Redington: Burning Both Ends of the Florida Candle Also make sure you look up Captian Jamie Allen when…
The Mountain Wilds Await – Duranglers August Fly Fishing Report The alarm always comes quicker than hoped, between the hours of “really dark” and “still dark”, when the only “dark” you want to hear about is the coffee. Times like these, the fringes of sanity are tested as multiple pre-dawn hours behind the wheel only…
4th Of July Sage Fly Rods Close Out With liberty and justice for all! Happy 4th of July, hope it is a good one! To kick off our love for living in the United States, we just put a whole heap of Made in America Sage fly rods on sale. We have done a few…
The 4th of July is for Celebrating America ‘Merica! ‘Murica! ‘Merica! USA! USA! USA! The 4th of July is almost here! Booyah! Durango is absolutely bustling with activity this week. The 4th of July week is the busiest week of the year here in our corner of Colorado. This might as well be considered the…
Animas River Lunch Report – 6-23-17 – The Longest, Fastest Day So it has been a few weeks since we last put out an Animas Lunch Report. The plan was to transition over to video reports; but as plans usually go, life happened. Well, more specifically, Duranglers summer life happened. We have been rocking full…
Clouds of Bugs – Duranglers June Fly Fishing Report As seriously cliche as it is…it’s still hard to believe that June is here. You know what else is kind of hard to believe: it looks like peak flows on our local waters crept up on us a few days ago and now we are on the…
Did We Just See Peak Flows? It seems we did just see peak flows, only time will tell over the next few days. However, our daily peak today did not reach the height yesterday. Plus, it looks like our snowpack is sitting at exactly the yearly average. We could be seeing the downslope of runoff…
Plus Size Sage X Models SHOP SAGE X FLY ROD The Sage X fly rod; much has been spoken of this mystical and majestic fly rod…with truth and fact being mixed with excessive hyperbole. Overstatement tends to be the nature of fly rod reviews, and even I am guilty of misusing the English language to talk…
Animas River Lunch Report – 5-26-17 – Runoff is Here! This time of year, folks make their way to Durango for Memorial day weekend, only to find that many of our local rivers are blown out. While fisheries are high and muddy, there are still plenty of options to wet a line. With summer on…
Braided – A New Local Women’s Fly Fishing Initiative We are excited to announce that we have partnered with Braided, a new local women’s fly fishing initiative. Braided was founded by Kami Swingle of Two Fisted Heart Productions as a group to connect with fly fishing women as well as to help women who are new to fly…
Smith Fly Fishing Sunglasses Memorial Day Sale Have you been needing an upgrade to your fly fishing optics? You know, your sunglasses? Arguably the most important piece of gear you will take to the water. “Most important?” Yep! Most. Important. Piece. Of. Gear. You cannot catch fish you cannot see them first. Those 9 dollar truck…
Animas River Lunch Report – 5-18-17 – Runoff is Coming While we live in Colorado, and wild weather is possible, it’s not often that we get more than a foot of snow mid May. Welcome to the west. It is certainly going to have an effect on our fisheries as well as the timeline of…
Animas River Lunch Report – 5-12-17 – Runoff is Coming It is starting to heat up around here, and with the warmer temps come runnoff. It’s not full on yet…but it will be very soon. Check out our latest Animas Lunch Report Video!
Animas River Lunch Report May 3rd 2017 Dropping Spring Flows It’s May…and flows are dropping? Yep! Thanks to the cold stormfront we had this past week, flows dropped and fishing in SWCO is pretty good for the moment. Look for that to change later this week with higher flows. Check out our full…
Tying a Skinny Annelid for the San Juan River and Other Selective Trout The Annelid, or aquatic earthworm, is a staple on most of our guide trips headed to the San Juan River Quality Waters below Navajo Dam in northern New Mexico. The Quality Waters are a tailwater, and therefore year round water temps remain…
Animas Lunch Report – 4/26/17 – 2.0 It’s been a while for the ole Animas Lunch Report. Well we are taking the ALR to the next level; call it 2.0, call it a vlog, call it a fishing report, call it whatever you want. We will be bringing you the Animas Lunch Report weekly…in video…
Fly Tying Tutorial: Hot Wire Prince Nymph The Hot Wire Prince has been a go-to for a few of us the past few years. A simple, but extremely effective Prince Nymph variation, this bug gets down quick thanks to the wire and bead. Chances are you already have everything you need to tie this bug…
