It's cheating because when you fish the trico "spinner fall," you're supposed to entice the trout to the surface with a motionless drift of your fly, imitating the dead insect it's preying on, called ...

The trout weren’t rising at 6:45 a.m. when I waded into the South Platte River in Eleven Mile Canyon. I was there to fish the hatch of small black-bodied, white-winged mayflies known to fly fishers as ...

Right now is the time of year when dry fly fishers find the South Platte River tailwaters irresistible. There is a convergence of prime time aquatic insect hatches happening that’s nothing short of ...

Tricos, the smallest mayfly anglers imitate, are small, fleeting and often misunderstood. There seems to be only two choices: like them or dislike them. The only people indifferent about Tricos are ...

There was just enough daylight when I arrived at the gravel road leading up the South Platte River in Elevenmile Canyon for me to consider turning my headlights off. I didn’t because it was Sunday ...

This year might be offering the best opportunity for summer trout fishing in recent memory. Last year, lack of rainfall from late June until well into November reduced most streams to brutally low ...

Mayflies emerge from the water after developing as an aquatic nymph over a period ranging from a couple of months up to a couple of years. There is a short window when these bugs carry wings. The ...

The rising sun looked like a red disk in the rear view mirror. It would be another smoky morning on the Front Range, but I was headed west toward the South Platte River for what I hoped would be less ...