On the first day of what’s become an annual springtime trip to the Frying Pan River, the trout were rising to what I assumed was a hatch of small mayflies known as Blue-winged Olives. It’s the first ...

The sky held what weather forecasters call “passing clouds” when I left home for the Frying Pan River. By the time I got to the Brown Dog Coffee Shop in Buena Vista, the clouds were decked up over the ...

The show almost didn’t go on. The Fryingpan River Cleanup is typically held in April on a weekend near Earth Day, but that was impractical this year with the COVID-19 crisis. The date came and went, ...

The Eagle River, covered over with ice, makes finding open water to fish a challenge. The Colorado River experienced the same cold snap and any shaded area has been locked up as well. Anglers ...

Earlier in May, several of us took off for the Frying Pan River after the memorial gathering for John Gierach in Lyons. None of us had made inquiries into whether the blue-winged olive hatch was on, ...

BASALT ” A man walking along the Frying Pan River in the Thomasville area spotted an ATV with a hunter pinned beneath it around 6:55 this morning. Several agencies responded to the scene and the ATV ...

Crews spent much of Sunday afternoon and into the evening responding to flooding coming from the Lake Christine Fire burn scar near Basalt after a heavy storm rolled through the midvalley. Mudslides ...