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Blue Winged Olive Time (Post)
The term Blue Winged Olive refers to small mayflies that generally have an olive body and blue-grey wings in the adult stage. In actuality, there are many many species of mayflies that fall into the ...
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Blue Winged Olive Mayfly Patterns (Post)
Trout loves blue winged olives. BWOs thrive cooler temperatures and are likely to hatch throughout the colder months. They are one of the first hatches in the spring, and o ...
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Spring Time Means Blue Winged Olives! (Post)
It’s getting to be that time of year. Spring means hatches of Baetis mayflies. As water temps begin to rise, we get to see the first hatches of Blue Winged Olives. BWOs hatch in both S ...
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Stock Up for Early Season Hatches – Skwala Fly, Salmon Flies, Blue Winged Olives (Post)
The Skwala Stonefly is an olive-colored stonefly living on a multi-year life cycle that spends two to three years as a nymph before it grows. It hatches in early spring, around mid-March in ...
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Best BWO Nymphs (Post)
Despite it snowing for April Fool's Day, Spring has pretty much sprung and Spring in the Rockies means Blue Winged Olives are hatching somewhere. I know I talked about them about a month ago, but the ...
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Autumn Fly Fishing & BWO's (Post)
Autumn is upon us! I love this time of year. The dog days of summer are gone, the days are getting shorter, and the leaves are turning. The crisp coolness of the air is something ...
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Fall Baetis (Post)
Many people only think of baetis or blue wing olives in the spring. They are, however, great fall baetis hatches on many streams around the country. Most fall blue wings are smaller, size 18, 20, or ...
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Autumn Trout Fly Fishing Tips (Post)
The hot and humid days of the summer are behind us. Autumn is here. It’s really my favorite time of year. I love the warm days and the cool nights and the fishing.The water seems less crowded. I ...
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Pre-Runoff Time - Fishing's Rewards for Shoveling All Winter (Post)
No time of year seems to get the fishing juices flowing in me more than the late Winter/early Spring. Snow and ice are finally melting, water is warming but isn't roaring yet, and the fish know it's ...
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Fishing Hook Sizes + Fly Sizes (Post)
One of the more confusing things about learning to fly fish are hook sizes and fly sizes. Like tippet and leader material sizes, fly fishing hook sizes are based on a bit of an antiquated system t ...
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Tactics for Mixed Hatches (Post)
Seeing clouds of bugs hovering just over the water makes me practically giddy. I looked closely and saw that it was both midges and blue winged olives hatching at once. This situation can present som ...
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Fly Fishing Tips and Tricks: Insect Life Cycles (Post)
To be an effective trout fisherman, it is necessary to know the life cycles of the aquatic insects in a trout’s diet.Trout are cold blooded. In kind, so is most of their forage aside from the od ...
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