Fall Fly Fishing in Southwest Colorado
DISCLAIMER: In Fall, brown and brook trout spawn. While not illegal in most of the country, it is highly unethical to fish to spawning trout. Please know how to identify…
There are #nobaddays On the Water
By Zak Beavers The water comes to a rolling boil. I put a heaping amount of freshly ground coffee into my French press, and then add the appropriate amount of…
The Passionate Fisherman to His Bug
By Lee Pillaro There are days that can be measured in hours, others that can be measured in dry fly eats, and still more that seem to not be measured…
Overcast Days are for Baetis – October Fishing Report
Overcast Days are for Baetis – October Fishing Report “Cloudy with a chance of rain”: a statement so typical of the forecast this time of year. With weather rolling in and…
Animas Lunch Report – 10/27/17 – The Most Important Thing You Will Read Today
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…
New and Notable Gear For Fall
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…
The Season of Meat – October Fly Fishing Report
The Season of Meat – October Fly Fishing Report It’s meat season around here. Ducks, elk, deer, pheasants, antelope, and bear. Many of us are prepping to get out after…
Onset of the Hopper Hoards – August/September Fly Fishing Report
Onset of the Hopper Hoards – August/September Fly Fishing Report The onset of hopper hoards have marked the coming of our late summer fishing season. If you are one who…
Duranglers November Fishing Report – Creeping Winter
Duranglers November Fishing Report – Creeping Winter From the much celebrated snow storm we had the past two days to a drop in temps, we are noticing it more and more: winter…
Duranglers October Fishing Report – Autumn Elements
Duranglers October Fishing Report – Autumn Elements Brown trout strip sets. Camp fires smoldering in the rain. Crushed aspen leaves pressed into elk tracks. Mist-lined steelhead passages. Marabou filled fly boxes.…
5 For Fall
5 For Fall If Buzzfeed can make lists of cool/random stuff, why can’t we? Here is a list of 5 things that are get us all sorts of excited for…
Duranglers September Monthly Report – The Million Dollar Month
Duranglers September Report – The Million Dollar Month September is the month of the San Juan Skyway and the Million Dollar Highway drive. While nonetheless beautiful every other month of…
November 2014 Fly Fishing Report
November 2014 Fly Fishing Report For a fly angler in the Rocky Mountains, November begins to implant nagging and impure thoughts of “staying home” instead of fishing. Gone are the…
October 2014 Fly Fishing Report
October Durango Fly Fishing Forecast October roughly translates to “streamers” in trout bum speak. With the shorter days and cooler nights, our local water temps have dropped and fish are one…
September Durango Fly Fishing Forecast
September Durango Fly Fishing Forecast The end of Summer has begun. As melancholy as some feel, it is a fact we all have to face. The height of summer dry fly…
November Fly Fishing Forecast
River Conditions in November “Remember, remember the fish of November…” Frosty autumn mornings; with each day giving way to the starkness of winter. Positioned center stream, casting at nothing in…
Fall Trip to Gunnison – In Photos
Every year, first weekend of October, I take a trip. The purpose of this trip has always been to meet up with close friends from the front range and fish…
October Fly Fishing Forecast
River Conditions in October October is here, and for us it is a time to slow down. A time to take inventory from the past busy season. A time to…
Southwest Colorado In September
River Conditions in September What does September mean to you? Cooling temps? Falling leaves? Football? Here in Durango it is what we know as a shoulder season. A shoulder between…