In this month’s “Top 5” video from Trouts Fly Fishing in Denver, Zeke Hersh and Ivan Orsic hit the Arkansas River near Salida, Colorado. Winter has arrived here in Colorado, so it’s important to get your flies in the zone. Trout won’t move very far to eat . . .
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Podcast: There is no such thing as streamer season, with Courtney Despos
The rallying cry of Courtney Despos, director of education and guide for Trouts Fly Fishing in Denver, is the title of this podcast. Courtney is a self-professed streamer fanatic, and she fishes them all season long, even in the dead of winter, when most . . .
Read MoreVideo: Top Five Flies for November 2019
In this month’s “Top 5” video from Trouts Fly Fishing in Denver, Head Guide Scott Dickson gets out on the South Platte for some serious small-fly action. Scott broke out the size 20s (and smaller!) and the tiny tippet and got into his fair share of fish, . . .
Read MorePhotos: A Fish Every Month for 5 Years
You know you have a fishing problem when you schedule a knee surgery around your fishing schedule! I’ve been trying to see how long I can go catching at least one fish a month. When I tore my meniscus earlier this year I postponed the surgery . . .
Read MoreClassic Video: Love to Eat Them Mousies!

Here’s a super cool video from Joey Macomber of Lateral Line Media , which shows a couple anglers chucking big mouse pattern on a small creek in Colorado to interested rainbows. Some of the trout are juuuuust not. . .
Read MoreVideo: Top Five Flies for September 2019
In this month’s “Top 5” video from Trouts Fly Fishing in Denver, Eric Schmidt and Zeke Hersh float the Colorado River throwing hoppers. Then they head back to the shop to share their Top 5 patterns for this time of year. As you might expect these are . . .
Read MoreStory and Photos: A Four Corners Fly-Fishing Extravaganza
We launched our journey from scalding hot valley of Phoenix, and headed for the 46-degree Colorado River tailwater in Lee’s Ferry. We were lucky enough to catch a special time on this unbelievable fishery, the summer cicada sing. This white noise . . .
Read MoreVideo: Top 5 Flies for August 2019
In this month’s “Top 5” video from Trouts Fly Fishing in Denver, Ivan Orsic and the legendary Landon Mayer fish the “Dream Stream” section of the South Platte and find some pretty trout. Then they sit on the tailgate of the truck and list Landon’s . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Find and Fish Alpine Lakes for Trout
The latest how-to video from Ben Sittig, a.k.a Huge Fly Fisherman, is all about getting away from the crowds by hiking into the mountains to fish high, alpine lakes. He offers valuable tips for how to find lakes that haven’t already been fished by the . . .
Read MorePhotos: No Pain, No Gain for High-Country Colorado Trout
This year has been a slow one for me when it comes to getting out and fly fishing. I’ll admit challenge to myself to catch a fish in every month of the year has been going slowly, but it’s still going. At the beginning of June, I caught a small bass out of the . . .
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