Green drakes. To fly-fishers, these two words equate to many sleepless nights spent by the river under the beam of a headlamp while trout gorge on large mayflies. To the fly-fishers’ significant ...

BASALT – The green drake hatch had long migrated upriver by the time I returned to the Roaring Fork. That always happens. Often, I miss the frenzy entirely, but sometimes, out of pure luck, I catch a ...

Green drake mayflies will be hatching soon — are you ready? The drake hatch is one of many reasons Basalt and the Roaring Fork Valley is considered Mecca for fly fishers around the world. We (and the ...

Colorado’s top fly-tyers are seeing a pattern. Then again, they always see patterns. A stripe here, a wing there, a smattering of insects across a spider’s web — all these are portions of a pattern ...

Fly fishing's favorite bug: The life cycle of the amazing Green Drake Each year fly fishing enthusiasts around the country flock to Pennsylvania's Penns Creek to try to land a big trout during the ...

Nearly every insect is hatching from green drakes to PMDs, BWOs, midges, caddis and craneflies on local rivers, especially the Fryingpan River. Along with the plethora of aquatic insects, local rivers ...