As our freestone rivers pick up the pace, the lower Roaring Fork and Colorado will make the switch from blue winged olives to caddis hatches. The first few days of the hatch are always interesting; I ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. It's a classic hatch. Swarms of caddis flies emerging from the green waters of the Yellowstone ...

Besides that holiday with the flowers, candy and doubled restaurant prices, mid-February brings something else: the onset of dry fly fever. This is about the time of year when even people like me, who ...

The mayfly may be the “fly” in fly-fishing, but caddis flies are at least as important a source of food to trout — far more important, in fact, on some streams. Still, the number of fly patterns ...

Caddis flies are low floaters and are sometimes difficult to see on the water for some of us older anglers. One way to assist us in visibility is to use the parachute application on a conventional ...

What lurks beneath the surface of your local creek? OSU professor emeritus Judy Li has your answer. OSU professor emeritus Judy Li's lifelong love of all the critters that make their homes in our ...

Runoff is here, the waters are getting muddy, wading the Eagle is starting to get sketchy and floating is now the best tactic for fishing. If you don’t have a boat, now is time to make some new ...

I have been thinking about Mom. Days on the calendar keep getting crossed off. Mother’s Day is rapidly approaching. My gaze falls over the river. A small moth bounces across the water. Closer ...