I just finished setting up the card table over the dogs’ kennel box in the back room. It’ll probably stay up at least until the trout opener, because it holds all the fly tying materials to the left ...

Here's a step-by-step of fly fisherman Gary Jones ' top three dry flies for the Mother's Day caddis hatch. Secure the thread on a size 16 dry fly hook and dub it with a blend of olive and grey dubbing ...

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Ryan McMahon gathers the ingredients for making an elk-hair caddis fly: brown dry fly hackle (rooster neck feather), elk hair (preferably light), dubbing (made from the under-body of muskrat, beaver, ...

Sustainability is the watchword these days. Fall and spring hunting go hand in hand with the fly tyer’s bench, and harvesting meat and materials can coincide. Flies are still created by hand these ...

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Editor's note: This article is the third in a three-part series. As flies go, the red-and-white Lefty's deceiverlike pattern I had tied one recent evening sure wouldn't have won any awards. It wasn't ...

Caddis, caddis, caddis! If you walk into any fly shop in the Vail Valley right now, I’m sure you will hear same thing from all the guides and shop dogs mouths. The caddisfly hatch is the Eagle River’s ...