Posts by Pat Dorsey

After 25 years of guiding in one of the most rugged canyons in the west, I appreciate quality products that make my job easier. Comfort, durability, and performance are of the utmost importance when amassing fly fishing gear to battle the elements. I hate to admit it—but I’m a gear-junkie! I’m always looking for new…

With the winter-season quickly approaching, fly-fishers need to break out their arsenal of tiny flies. For the next several months, midges make up thebulk of a trout’s diet. I strongly recommend that you familiarize yourself with a midges’ lifecycle (larva, pupa, and adult) and carry patterns to imitate the various stages of their development. Midge…

Rim Chung invented the original RS 2 (RS stands for “Rim’s Semblance”) in the early 1970s. It was tied on a Tiemco 101 (straight eye hook), had two split moose fibers for the tail, natural beaver fur for the abdomen, and saddle hackle webbing (fluffy stuff near the base of the feather) for the emerging…

Anglers throughout the state of Colorado are finding excellent dry fly fishing as of late! Currently, Colorado’s tailwaters are providing fly-fishers with reliable dry fly fishing with pale morning duns, yellow sallies, caddis and Tricos. River levels are perfect and the trout are eating a variety of surface offerings with confidence! Brian Leen fooled this…

It took a while, but spring run-off is finally prevailing on the majority of streams in Colorado! There are still a few tailwaters with low flows because the reservoir above have not filled yet. Government agencies are holding water back in an effort to fill Cheesman Reservoir, Spinney Reservoir, and Eleven Mile Reservoir, etc. until…