There’s no official fly-tying season, but if there was it would be in the depths of winter. The image of a fly tier hunched over their fly-tying vise on a cold winter’s night is about as romantic as ...

The midge in its various phases is one of the most important trout foods in almost every body of water, making up to 50 percent of a trout’s diet, dependent on time of year. But it’s easy to miss a ...

Getting started in fly tying doesn’t have to be daunting, especially with the wealth of fly shops around here, the amazing books available, and the treasure troves of information on the internet these ...

The new fly-fishing catalogs started showing up at my house a few weeks ago. I had gotten Cabela’s, L.L. Bean, Orvis, my favorite, Kaufmanns’ Streamborn; and about another 50 pounds of others. It was ...

Fly tying and football season go together like peanut butter and jelly. For me and many fly tyers in the valley, not much is better than setting up a vise in front of a TV screen with a football game ...

SHELBURNE FALLS -- The Deerfield River Trout Unlimited chapter will hear from a retired design engineer who has perfected the art of tying tiny flies to use with lightweight rods. Bob Gancarz of ...

When 64 of the region’s finest fly-tyers gather Saturday at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds for the annual West Denver Trout Unlimited fly-tying clinic, fur and feathers will fly in a dazzling ...

Unlike bass, which are largely reactive eaters, trout are very specific about what they eat and when they'll eat it. That's why an indolent trout will ignore every nymph in your fly box no matter how ...

While shopping for hard-to-find tying materials in Charlie’s Fly Box down in Arvada last week, I overheard shop guru Sam Wright utter “tailwater trout eat at the same restaurant every day” while ...

More than 50 percent of the average trout’s diet consists of tiny midges, and it’s these microscopic insects that you’ll most likely find flying above local streams this month. But don’t knock ...