Knowing the stages of development in a bug’s life is a critical component to successful fly fishing. Deciphering the hatch on a river is a challenging game. Larva, pupa or adult stages have been ...

Emergers and nymphs are often lumped together because they’re both fished subsurface, and they both imitate aquatic insects in pre-adult life stages. Some nymphs and emergers may look similar, but ...

If you are refilling your depleted fly boxes this winter, having all of the usual insects is important, but having the proper fly for each stage of that insect’s life cycle is even more so. Most of ...

The Mother’s Day caddis hatch — is it really on the second Sunday in May every year? Not really. It is more of a generalization for what is happening across the Rockies at that time of year. Whether ...

If you are refilling your depleted fly boxes this winter, having all of the usual insects is important – but having the proper fly for each stage of that insect’s life cycle is even more so. Most of ...

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 ...

With spring quickly approaching, it’s time for anglers to prepare their fly boxes for matching a few more hatches. Baetis — also referred to as Blue Winged Olive mayflies, Caddis and Stonefly nymphs — ...

April means many things to fly fishers. For most, it rings in the fair-weather fishing season, as the first waves of blue winged olives and caddis arrive with those April showers. If you’ve ever ...

As the shadows crept out over the waters of the Bighorn River, a wavering band of insects winged along the bank. The band of black caddis was seemingly endless in length and about 10 feet wide. To ...