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On the Fly: Blue-winged olives are the main attraction now (opens the original)
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Now that we have some cool weather under our belts here in the Roaring Fork Valley, the fishing will begin to change yet again. The fish notice these annual cycles, and their feeding patterns, behaviors and diet are starting to adjust. So must we as fly fishers. Over the next month, we should still enjoy the prolific early fall hatches of the Roaring Fork Valley (especially up the Fryingpan River) of green drakes, pale morning duns and caddis. Those epic days are numbered, and we need to take
On the Fly: Learning by doing (opens the original)
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If you want to become a better angler, which is a worthy endeavor considering where we live, you have to immerse yourself. If you wanted to become a concert pianist, professional snowboarder or photographer, you’d have to put in your time. The same goes for trying to figure out how to catch fish consistently. As the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day. This applies to those frustrating times when we can’t keep the fish off our line one day and we’re getting blanked the next. So
On the Fly: Oh, the things youâll see! (opens the original)
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When you head up and down the Fryingpan as your daily commute, you get to see plenty of interesting things. The river is constant, yet somehow always changing, without fail. Anyone who says they know a particular river like the back of their hand is a bit full of it, in my opinion. Rocks and logs move. Flows and hatches can be enigmatic, especially during wildly variant “water years.” Your favorite pool from last summer might have filled in with silt and rocks.   We’ve all heard that old a
On the Fly: The only constant in life is change (opens the original)
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What a difference a week or two makes. We’ve seen the ending of voluntary closures on the Roaring Fork River, the Fryingpan River decrease from an almost un-wadable flow to a crawl and the weather cool off significantly. Fall isn’t officially here until late September, but it feels like the worm has already turned. We expect the dry fly fishing to get borderline ridiculous on the ever-cold Fryingpan in the coming weeks once the river clears up a bit and levels out. Summertime hatches last until
On the Fly: After the bitter, comes the sweet (opens the original)
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Has this summer been challenging for the angler? The answer is yes â but I’d bet my bottom dollar this fall will be a great one. Between higher-than-usual flows on the Fryingpan for the last few months and the warm-water woes below Carbondale and beyond, most anglers have been scratching their heads. The only constant in life is change, and these adverse conditions will most certainly do just that. These boosted flows can’t last forever on the Fryingpan tailwater, and once they subside, the dr
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