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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

We see them every year, and the mystery deepens. When traveling up and down the Fryingpan in fall and throughout winter, you’ll see pumpkins stashed in the most curious places. On boulders in the ...

Recently I decided to drive up the Fryingpan River. Although I always have several rods rigged and ready to go, there was no real intention to fish this day. Even though I secretly had hopes of ...

A man had to be extricated Thursday from a vehicle that missed a curve on Frying Pan Road, went down an embankment and landed upside down in the river. “They had one unresponsive person in the vehicle ...

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 ...