Spring break season is right around the corner. For some, that means traveling while the kids are out of school — for others, it’s taking a much-needed break during a rather monotonous time of year.

I had to choose between a warm bed and sleeping in, or a cold and wet day on the river. Short of lightning, here's why you should always choose the river. I had a choice to make. Go out in cold, ...

Fly fishing during the spring runoff can be intimidating. Sure, high, off-color rivers can be confusing and hard to read, but fish are still biting in these conditions. Plus, you might even have the ...

After several weeks of gusty, soggy weather that too often kept me in the hangar, I am happy that fly-in season has begun. Even in regions where the conditions are easily flyable all year, the middle ...

The Eagle River has thawed out and the river is coming back to life. If you’ve driven down U.S. Highway 6 in the past couple weeks, you’ve probably noticed a large amount of vehicles pulled off the ...

As we start to see runoff conditions here in the Roaring Fork Valley, it is time to change our fishing game up with adjustments to ensure success. True runoff will not be here for another week or two, ...

Currently it’s a beautiful, sunny day at 60 degrees in downtown Basalt. Spring is starting to show a little early around here, and our rivers are taking note as well. Most all of the ice shelves are ...

What a difference a week makes! While we are all trying to adjust to an hour’s less sleep, fish in the Roaring Fork and Colorado rivers are making the adjustment to looking up and eating dry flies.

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Spring is just around the corner and with it comes a very busy travel season. Whether it’s spring break or traveling to the path of totality to witness the upcoming, rare total eclipse of the sun, ...

"Spring," Robin Williams once said, "is nature's way of saying ‘Let's party!'" To the nation's 6 million fly fishermen, spring is nature's way of saying, "Get on the river!" In the popular imagination ...