Here's a nice mayfly nymph imitation that can produce all year long. Tied with peacock, it is suggestive of a blue-winged olive nymph. Tie it with light cahill body dubbing to suggest lighter colored ...

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A little less than a week ago, the first credible rumor of a blue-winged olive mayfly hatch made its way up the Front Range. Before that, there had been the usual false alarms from the South Platte ...

BASALT – Autumn often yields some of the best dry-fly fishing of the entire year.Blue-wing olives are one of the few mayfly species that hatches bi-annually, during both spring and fall. For most ...

When it comes to color, profile and durability, anglers would be hard-pressed to find a better fly to throw during spring than Charlie Craven's JuJu Baetis. It's one of my favorite fly patterns to ...

I get a little excited when the spring temperatures bring about an emergence of mayflies that haven’t been seen since last fall. The air feels good on your skin. Midges are skating across the surface ...

In most areas where trout live, four orders of aquatic insects comprise a majority of the food the fish eat. The orders are mayflies (Ephemeroptera), stoneflies (Plecoptera), caddis flies (Trichoptera ...

A look at how some of the tailwaters are fishing around Colorado: South Platte River, Deckers area: Danny Brennan of the Flies & Lies shop reports a few blue-wing-olive mayflies on the water, long ...