Simms Rivershed – Vibram Wading Boots

Simms Rivershed Boot – Vibram

One of the latest in Vibram boots from Simms, the Rivershed Boot – Vibram is built to last. On of the most comfortable boots on the market with the new Vibram sole designed exclusively for Simms that provides outstanding traction in just about any aquatic environment. Add the Simms HardBite Studs for additional traction in those really nasty places.

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Fishing Grey Reef – Wyoming

 

Pat Dorsey with a hansome Brown Trout

Fishing Grey Reef, Alcova Wyoming:

Pat Dorsey, Bob Dye and I fish Grey Reef every March with Trent and Eric owners of the North Platte Lodge and Fly Shop. We go up early in the season because is the time we have to get away before things really get busy at the Blue Quill Angler.  We stay at the North Platte Lodge which is just 1/4 mile from the put in just below Alcova Dam. This year we went in mid March for 2 1/2 days. We left Denver on Sunday am around 10:00 am and were fishing by 3: pm that afternoon.  Although it was cold and windy the fishing was outstanding. We floated the section from right below the Dam down for many miles. Trent and Erik have leased  of river right so we were priviledged to get out and wade allot of private water. Productive patterns were egg flies, Dorseys Mercury Black Beauty, Bob’s Pearl Jam, Olive Jam amd Red Jam, Perrywinkles, Rabbit Fur Leaches, and other small midge patterns.  It was windy and cold but the opportunity to catch very nice trout, most of them from 18-22 inches, and out winter fishing gear, kept us running up and down the river like little kids.

Recent trip to Roaring Fork/Colorado

I recently got the chance to fish the Roaring Fork Valley for a couple of days. We arrived in Glenwood springs at about 8pm and decided to go agead and fish through the night as to not pay for a hotel room that night. I am reluctant to share much information about my nightfishing times because I will soon have hits out for me if I share those secrets. The information I will share is that we fished from 9pm to 4am and the fishing was great, considering it was a freezing blizzard.
After a few hours rest, we were able to fish The Roaring Fork during the daylight hours. The weather was terrible at best, (rain, snow, wind and cold) but made for great dry fly action with BWO’s. We could not take a fish on a nymph that day, every fish was looking up apparently. The next day though, the sun was out and it was rather warm. We stayed on the Fork hoping to catch the BWO hatch again, but it never happened, or atleast not enough to bring the fish up. However, the nymph fishing turned on and we enjoyed another great day of fishing on the Roaring Fork.
Both, the Roaring Fork and the Colorado were very off colored, but still fished well. The Fork was where the best fishing happened though. We spent most of our time there.
Look for bad weather, be ready with your adult BWO’s, and time your casts at rising fish precisely. There could be a great reward!

Blue Wing Olives on the South Platte

It is Baetis time. We are beginning to see a few Blue Qing Olives emerging around Deckers on the South Platte, on the Arkansas, Roaring Fork, and Colorado River. This is always an exciting time of the year because these mayflies are the first in the spring to come out and the last to be seen in the fall.  The Blue Quill Angler fly shop is named after these tiney Baetis mayflies, commonly called Blue Duns, Blue Quills, and Blue Wing Olives. They range in size from 18 to 22 and the much smaller pseudos come out in the fall. The BWO hatch will grow steadily as we go into spring. These little mayflies really like to emerge in overcast, nasty days and often in the afternoon. Fish often move up into the riffles once the nymphs begin to drift and the fish may be spotted  in shallow water where they can be quite easy to catch with the right fly. For nymphs we often fish Pheasant Tails, grey and olive RS-2. Mercury Baetis, and Stalcup’s Baetis nymphs. For dries we fish BWO comparaduns, Parachute Adams, standard BWO patterns with a hen wing such as A.K. Best’s Olive Dun Quill. My Bunny dun with a grey snowshoe rabbit wing and a dark olive body is my favorite pattern for dries. Fishing this hatch in April is one of my favorite times to be on the water. Jim Cannon