A custom creation Jackson has been perfecting. It shares the characteristics of a damselfly and dragonfly larva. “It looks ...

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 ...

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 year when ...

Like stoneflies, midges can provide surprisingly good cold-weather dry fly fishing. A challenge with dry fly midge fishing—other than tying a size 22 fly on your tippet—can be simply seeing ...

BASALT – With the return of spring and daylight saving time, the trout fishing throughout the valley has been very good overall. The Fryingpan is seeing daily hatches of midges and blue-wing olive ...

There’s a bug invasion along the lakefront. An annual event this time of year, as aquatic insects emerge from the lake. They’re called midges. Some call them lake flies.

Popular colors for midge larvae are red, black and olive green. Some innovative fly tyers have constructed midge larva with a combination of colors. The contrast gives the impression of movement as ...

Larvae then transform ... Midges, also known as lake flies, fly over Lake Michigan near Doctors Park in Fox ... historical patterns have shown a lot of activity in April and May that tapers off ...

It’s midwinter and midges are the name of the game for fly fishers plying the Front Range tailwaters. Well, I should say midges are mostly the name of the game, but more on that later. For th… ...

Midge eggs spend much of the summer, fall and winter developing in the sediment at the bottom of the lake. In the spring, they finally hatch as larvae and develop in the mud for several more weeks.

What are midge flies? Midge flies are multiple species of minuscule, non-mosquito flies with one pair of long, narrow wings, and long, skinny legs. They are only about 2 to 4 millimeters in size ...