Frying Pan Anglers – a full service fly fishing shop and outfitter based in Basalt Colorado which provides guided fly fishing trips on the frying pan river, roaring fork river, Colorado river and other rivers in the Basalt area. Frying Pan Anglers carries fly fishing equipment, with Hardy fly fishing equipment, and fly fishing supplies. It provides regular fishing reports and fly fishing reports for the frying pan river, the roaring fork river and Colorado river in our area. Frying Pan Anglers is the premier fly fishing and guided fly fishing outfitter for the best quality guides and fly fishing equipment. Frying Pan Anglers provides a range of fly fishing equipment including orvis, hardy, greys, lamson, ross, galvan, and bauer fly fishing reels. In addition it carries orvis helios fly rods, hardy, greys, GL Loomis, mystic echo and St Croix fly rods. It is your one stop fly fishing shop and fly fishing outfitter in the frying pan river area for guided float and wade fishing trips and tours. It hosts excellent fly fishing guides and fly fishing tours on the frying pan river and other local waters. The guides will provide excellent teaching and coaching for clients of Frying Pan Anglers.Frying Pan Anglers – a full service fly fishing shop and outfitter based in Basalt Colorado which provides guided fly fishing trips on the frying pan river, roaring fork river, Colorado river and other rivers in the Basalt area. Frying Pan Anglers carries fly fishing equipment, with Hardy fly fishing equipment, and fly fishing supplies. It provides regular fishing reports and fly fishing reports for the frying pan river, the roaring fork river and Colorado river in our area. Frying Pan Anglers is the premier fly fishing and guided fly fishing outfitter for the best quality guides and fly fishing equipment. Frying Pan Anglers provides a range of fly fishing equipment including orvis, hardy, greys, lamson, ross, galvan, and bauer fly fishing reels. In addition it carries orvis helios fly rods, hardy, greys, GL Loomis, mystic echo and St Croix fly rods. It is your one stop fly fishing shop and fly fishing outfitter in the frying pan river area for guided float and wade fishing trips and tours. It hosts excellent fly fishing guides and fly fishing tours on the frying pan river and other local waters. The guides will provide excellent teaching and coaching for clients of Frying Pan Anglers.


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FISHING REPORT

For the Frying Pan River, the Roaring Fork River and the Colorado River

For the Week ending 6th November 2004

It has warmed a little in the last few days. The skies are blue so the temperature is down overnight. Saturday was the beginning of the last hunting season. Generally it has quietened down considerably. The snow on the ski slopes was enough to have some of the skico employees out. Its only a few weeks to go!

The browns are now spawning, so please keep away from the redds. These are gravel areas where the trout will lay their eggs for the next generation.

The redds are generally saucer-shaped nests dug by the female or hen in the clean gravel lining the bottom of streams. The redd is created by the hen while lying on its side and rapidly beating its tail up-and-down to create a current which allows the current to move the gravel slightly downstream. Up to two males then move alongside the female and the eggs and sperm are deposited simultaneously into the redd. The female then moves to the upstream edge of the redd, again beating its tail on the stream bottom to create a current releasing more gravel to bury the eggs. After this process is done, the eggs are abandoned. The eggs incubate through the winter, hatch during late winter, and the tiny fry emerge from the gravel during the first warm days of spring. This whole process is, of course, temperature dependent. The number of eggs produced depends on fish size. An 8-inch mature brown trout may spawn 200 eggs, while a 10-pound female might spawn over 8,000 eggs. With this in mind, it is important to allow the process to take place undisturbed.

The browns will tend to spawn for a few months in some spots. It is terribly bad form to fish to the spawning trout so keep an eye out for the redds and avoid them. The fish will tend to stack up down stream from the redds waiting to move in. If you see a fisherman near them who is unfamiliar with the sensitivity of the area, a kindly warning will not go astray.

 

 

Frying Pan

Current Flow: below the Dam 70 cfs. (if you want more uptodate figures check out current readings on our "Links" page)

 

The water in the Pan has been running at 68-70 for the past week.

As always, the mysis shrimp is working for the first half mile below the dam at Reudi Reservoir.

On the sunny days there are hatches of baetis mid-morning. The midges are always about. I went out today for a few hours and could do no wrong. I was fishing very light – three weight and 8x tippet. Its expensive fishing with 8x on the Pan! I used six midge different patterns, all small – 24 and 26. It didn't seem to matter whether it was a grey or black. The fish were lively and big. For some of the time I had a dropper behind an emerger. They took either. In the end I settled for different emergers and spent patterns.

 

Recommended Flies: baetis #20 and smaller; mathews sparkle dun #20; sparkle baetis emerger #18; brooks sprout baetis #20; barrs blue wing olive emerger #18 and #20; AK's parachute Olive quill #20; dark olive pheasant tails and olive biot emergers, size #20 and #22; eggs; midges, size #20 and smaller.

 

 

Roaring Fork

Current Flow: near Emma 300 cfs. (if you want more uptodate figures check out current readings on our "Links" page)

The Roaring Fork continues to fish well. Again watch for the redds and the spawning browns.

 

Recommended Flies: same as the Frying Pan. Red quills size 14 and 16; carrot nymph #18; red copper john #20; gold ribbed hare’s ear #16 and #18; 20 incher stone #14; Blue Wing Olives #20; egg patterns #10 - #18; streamers #10 (on some days); autumn splendor #4 - 8; bead head pops bugger olive #6.

 

Colorado River

The water is clear and the fishing is good.

 

Recommended Flies: Bead head pheasant tails #16, 18; Blue Wing Olives #18,20; bead head prince nymph red #12 - 16; egg patterns #10 - #18; streamers such as woolly buggers. It is also a good midge fishery all winter long.

 

I you would like to receive this report on a regular basis please email us as report@fryingpananglers.com and let us know.

 
 

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