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USGS Gauging Station on the Dream Stream, South Platte River, Colorado

Tracking the End of Runoff with Hydrographs

when to expect clear conditions after runoff?

fly fishing hoppers, attractors, dry flies, royal wulff, chubby chernobyl, which colors work and why?

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Exploring LaFontaine's Color Theory of Attractors

this goes way beyond bright day, bright fly...

left handed vs right handed fly fishing, how to get a good drift, dead drift success, fly casting, how to cast fly line

Lefty or Righty? It Affects Your Drift

Have you ever thought about how your casting arm affects your fly presentation?

fly fishing nymphs, dry flies, wet flies, streamers, fly fishing trout, atlantic salmon, steelhead

Protecting A Fishery With Ineffective Angling?

Why would you limit your fly fishing tactics to help the fish? Hear me out...

Hot Bead Get Down Sow Jig Fly, Euronymph, euro nymph, tightline nymph, czech nymph, fly fishing

Are Trout Just Eating The Bead?

fish pale pat's rubber legs fly patterns when fly fishing the stonefly molt

weird flies that work

The Stonefly Molt

Attractor dry flies, sparkle pupa, why do trout rise? Gary LaFontaine Dry Fly New Angles

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Attracting Rises from Trout

Wisdom from a forgotten book: Why do trout rise to a dry fly? Exploring LaFontaine's lost ideas on attractors

Reviewing Sunray's NoKnot Kevlar EZ Back Cast fly line

Reviewing Sunray's New Fly Line With Kevlar Core

Notes from our first time out with the no stretch kevlar core of Sunray's new EZ Back Cast fly line

stanky leg fly pattern, tube jig fly pattern, crayfish fly pattern, euro nymphing fly pattern

Weird Flies That Work: Stanky Leg

the fly fishing equivalent of a tube jig

Nymphing with heavy flies or splitshot to get a trout's attention, ESN, indicator nymphing, fly fishing

nymphing Featured

Nymphing vs Turbulence

The nymphing angler is locked in a perennial quest to fish deeper because rivers fight back...

Favorite Flies for fishing runoff: Pigsticker, Woolly Bugger, Cranefly, Tequeely, Polar Shrimp, Pat's Rubber Legs

Down But Not Out: Runoff

6 favorite flies for fishing runoff, when the rivers are running high, and dirty.

Flies displayed include: chubby chernobyl, clouser minnow, barr's meat whistle, popper, crazy charlie, and turneffe crab

behind the scenes

Behind the Scenes

Unveiling the creative process from idea to ink for Due West Angler's distinctive articles on fly fishing + science + conservation

Streamer fly fishing on the Animas River, Durango, Colorado

How to Match the Hatch with Streamers

Fly fishing: We all know about the bugs... but what about the baitfish?

Conservation Concept: Ecosystem Services and Externalities

conservation concept

Conservation Concept: Ecosystem Services and Externalities

Exploring the concept of ecosystem services and environmental externalities

don't get skunked while fly fishing

The Skunk Set Me Free

Getting skunked, catching nothing, was never an acceptable outcome.... until I realized different

Releasing a pre-spawn Wyoming Brown Trout

5 Tips for Landing Those Big Fish

To be a true angler you need to experience the heartbreak of losing a big fish. Here's how to stack the odds in your favor so that doesn't happen...

Releasing a stillwater trout from Delaney Buttes Lakes, Colorado

4 Simple Items for Warmer Hands

Cold water is great for trout, not so much for your hands

pink pookie fly pattern, pink grasshopper fly pattern, pink hopper fly

grasshoppers Featured

Pink Grasshoppers Really Do Exist

In our never-ending quest to explain why unexpected colors work as fly patterns I found some insights in an unlikely place... the museum...

Temple Fork Outfitters, Axiom II-X fly rod, an affordable TFO masterpiece

Instant Favorite: TFO Axiom II-X Fly Rod Review

This fly rod has become an instant favorite, reviewing the tfo axiom 2-x fly rod

fly fishing for picky trout, how to catch finicky trout, targeting stubborn trout, grad school of fly fishing

Crash Course in Picky Trout Behavior

Fly Fishing graduate school: Understanding a picky trout can be the difference-maker when trying to present flies to these stubborn fish.

Landing a trout from a tailwater, South Platte River using indicators, airlock, thingamabobber, oros, strike indicator

indicator nymphing

More Indicator Secrets

Have you ever felt like your indicator rig was moving too fast? As if sliding over the water's surface and preventing your flies from presenting deeper?

how does trout memory work? they remember flies after large hatches like the salmonfly hatch

pattern hangover

Fish Memory and Pattern Hangover

You missed the big hatch, but if you know a little about how trout brains work you might know that you're window of opportunity hasn't fully closed yet...

salmonfly fly pattern

Improving the Salmonfly Dry Fly

We walk through tying a modified 64 Impala fly pattern and clarify how to customize this recipe to match the hatch beyond the original

Cutthroat trout from Eleven Mile Canyon on the South Platte River, does fly fishing impact trout behavior?

Story From the Road: Third Time Makes the Pattern?

Usually great stories start with full cars, open roads, and rigged rods, but this one starts different. This one starts with an internet troll.

Fly fishing the Uncompahgre River, Colorado

Let's Talk about Private Waters

The comparison of fishing pressured public waters to private regulated-access waters is enlightening for anyone interested in fish behavior.