Posts by Pat Dorsey

Autumn is my favorite time of year! Anglers are enjoying phenomenal dry fly fishing with Tricos and blue-winged olives and the nymph fishing is not shabby either. I recommend stocking your fly boxes with an assortment of Trico nymphs, Baetis nymphs, and plenty of midge larva and pupa. Dry fly enthusiast should carry Trico duns,…

Kim Dorsey shows off a beautiful Kokanee salmon that she fooled on the Gunnison River. Kokanee salmon move upriver from Blue Meas Reservoir and hold in the deeper runs and slower pools providing some exceptional nymph-fishing this time of year! A variety of bead heads, San Juan Worms, egg patterns, and brightly-colored streamers fool these…

Mark Adams fooled this Tarryalle Creek Beauty with a Pine Squirrel Leech early last week. This fish moved several feet from underneath an undercut bank to crush his leech pattern. Make sure you have your fly boxes stocked with an ample supply of streamer patterns.

Tim Casey landed this huge rainbow today on a Trico Nymph. The South Platte trout were gobbling Trico nymphs when we arrived to the stream this a.m. Heck of a fish Tim…keep up the good work!

Marshall Montgomery shows off a beautiful brown trout that he fooled at Boxwood Gulch. Currently the North Fork of the South Platte is flowing at approximately 400 cfs. The North Fork of the South Platte is fishing excellent! Conditions could not be better with 250 cfs of cold, clean water flowing from the Roberts Tunnel,…