BASALT – As we quickly approach the month of March, several exciting changes take place along the rivers of the Roaring Fork Valley. Forget about basketball and March Madness – this is the time of ...

BASALT – As we quickly approach March, several exciting changes take place along the rivers of the Roaring Fork Valley. Forget about basketball and March Madness – this is the time of year when ...

With fall quickly approaching, now is the perfect time to share one of my favorite fly-fishing nymph patterns. The fly is called Shy's Shucking Midge, and it's a pattern my friend Jeff Shy tied ...

Midges rule the local water for the next few months. Sporadic hatches of Blue-Winged Olives (BWOs) may appear, but the mainstay for repeatable success rides on the smallest nymphs in your fly box. If ...

Before mayflies hatch, they spend most of their life cycle underwater in the nymph stage. Some mayfly nymphs cling to underwater rocks, and some burrow into the streambed, but they become meals ...

A midge fly can be a source of currently used pesticides for birds, bats. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 04 / 220420092201.htm ...

The four stages of a midge’s life cycle are egg, larva, pupa, and adult. The ... A challenge with dry fly midge fishing—other than tying a size 22 fly on your tippet—can be simply seeing the ...

Mel Whitson, director of sales for Central Life Sciences, details how Strike® products break the life cycles of midges and filter flies to prevent future generations from ...

In the beginning of your fly fishing journey, the most common concept of fly fishing is floating a "bug"-like fly on the top of the water to induce a fish to strike. NEWSLETTERS Emailed Daily.

Non-biting midges are the tiny flies that swarm together as thick masses around lakes and streams, annoying passers-by in warm weather. But early in a midge’s life, it lives in the water. Now ...

By now, most Colorado fly-fishers are idling away the long winter nights at their fly-tying vises while entertaining visions of Santa leaving a pile of new tackle under the Christmas tree. Needless… ...