Fly Fishing Colorado

4/22

From the ladies of Colorado Women  Flyfishers who fished the Blue River behind the Calvin Kline stores and above and below the foot bridge.  (Editor Note: There is some nice water and some good fish in that area).

Air temperature ranged from mid 30’s to low 40’s with clouds and snow showers all morning.  Afternoon was sunnier.  Official water flow was 170 CFS but river was low enough to wade across in the area behind the shops.

Successful flies were #10 Crane Fly Larva, orange eggs and Mysis shrimp patterns. The ladies were successful on the 29th.  (Editor:  I was hoping for a few colorado fly fishing pictures to add to the post but don’t have any yet.)

My friend, Joan, said the ladies also fished by Deckers, Colorado the last week of March. They fished by the first parking lot and then the one up over the hill.  The fly of the day was the Crane Fly Larva there too.

Charlie’s Fly Box in Arvada, CO has a great photo tutorial on how to tie this pattern. Charlie is a fly tyer extraordinaire.  He also does his own photos. http://www.charliesflyboxinc.com/flybox/details.cfm?parentID=100

Charlie says the Crane Fly is a giant midge and follows the same larval and adult stages.  In the larval stage, the burrow into the river bottom and are often called large “rock worms”.  The larva are from 1 to 3 inches which is a good meal for any respectable trout. In the adult stage, they are known as Daddy Long Legs. 

High water runoff and tailwater releases will wash these tasty morsels out of hiding into the trout’s food chain.  So get going and tie some up.  Then go for the big fish.

Tight Lines and Good Fishing,

Marshall, Editor
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