Often overshadowed by the Salmon Fly and Golden Stone hatch the Green Drake hatch is one of the most notary bug hatches in the west. Many anglers refer to Green Drakes as “trout candy,” because when these bugs begin to hatch, it triggers an all-out feeding frenzy. The trout key […]
roaring fork river
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I won’t be the first to admit this. And I definitely won’t be the last. But I love the Frying Pan River. It’s not because the fishing is easy (most would agree it’s far from that). It’s not because there are thousands of trout, some of which are trophy specimens […]
Who doesn’t love late summer fly fishing when we can tie on a giant size 6 hopper pattern only to watch a big fish race out of a cut bank and suck down your fly? On the local rivers here in Colorado we see grasshoppers throughout the riparian zones starting […]
Every year about the end of February, here in Central Colorado, the Roaring Fork River turns into a midge factory that produces the first good hatch of the season. The hatch of a variety of midges will fill the bottom of a self-bailing raft with so many midge shucks that […]
The Trout’s Ugly Cousin: An Ode to the Whitefish Fly fishermen are well known for our dedication to wild or native, beautiully spotted fish called trout. Rainbows, browns, cutthroats or brookies, it doesn’t matter, we love them all. There is another Colorado native that some anglers mistakenly look down upon. […]
Here at Vail Valley Anglers we are blessed to have more miles of world class trout fishing than any die hard angler could cover in a lifetime of fly fishing. Our trout fishing takes place on tiny mountain creeks, medium sized freestone streams, cold clear tailwaters and also big brawling […]
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