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 Week ending 10th June 2012


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Another week of warm to hot weather with no rain in sight. And it seems the coming week will be more or the same. The dry is evident in the fields where irrigators haven't been able to water pasture. The grass is brown. Anyone cutting their lawns must get water on quickly otherwise the warm to hot wind is drying off the mown areas quickly. It is very dry.

It has been quite windy and given that the Fork did not go past last weeks peak this week, there is a good chance we have seen the highest flows. The condition of the Fork is excellent and with the current flow at 608cfs there is great fishing and floating now. But if the peak has passed, the period for good floating from Basalt won't last as long as usual. So consider floating sooner rather than later.

Ruedi continues to fill and is another 3% higher over the past week currently at 86.4%. Two more weeks and we will be at 90% provided there are no releases in addition to the current flow. So we continue to wait and see how much more it will rise.

Frying Pan

Current Flow: below the Dam 110cfs. (if you want more uptodate figures check out current readings on our "Links" page)

The Pan remains at 110cfs and steady while lower down the flows pick up just a little with the tributaries contributing a little, but not much. However over the past week the tributaries have slowed down so the Pan remains unseasonally low down to Basalt. Overall the fishing has been good with nymphing in the mornings and midges coming off while during the day there have been nice hatches of BWO's and a few caddis. Lower down there are PMD's coming off and the fish are looking up. There was good dry fly fishing over the weekend with the fish taking #18 Adams and Female Adams. The takes were not aggressive as the fish are just beginning to key in to the larger bugs.

Recommended Flies:Use midges, caddis and BWO's.

For mysis at the dam use Mike's Mysis. epoxy mysis, and BUV mysis.

The midges will come off during the day, particularly if it is sunny. So try Wilson's Reverse Candy Cane #20, red and black chironocones #20, brassies #18 - #22, midge larva patterns #18 - #22, copper johns #18 - #22, black polywings #18 - #22 and garcia's rojo midges # 18 - #22.

As they come off try the gray loopwing emergers #20 - #22, the FPA special emergers, biot emergers both with and without the trailing shuck and gray RS2's #18 - #22. In addition try dry patterns such as the z-wing real midge, suspended midge and any similar dry black and gray patterns in sizes from #20 through to #26.

For baetis, try small nymphs such as pheasant tails, bubble backs, FPA sparkle baetis and rs2's. When the BWO's come off parachute adams and standard BWO patterns. Also try the parachute BWO and the thorax patterns. With the range of bugs coming off, larger BWO patterns will work well in the rougher water.

For caddis, wait for the day to develop and let the fish move towards the surface. In the mornings they are still tending to stay low and generally only coming to the surface if there is a decent hatch or some caddis floating through. Try small olive elk hair caddis and king's river caddis.


Roaring Fork

Current Flow: near Emma - 608cfs (if you want more uptodate figures check out current readings on our "Links" page).

The flows touched 900cfs last week but didn't even get back to that level this week with the warm winds and hot days. It is a fair bet that we have passed the peak. Further evidence that we are well advanced in the season are the drakes being seen on the lower Fork already. The PMD's are coming off as well as caddis.

The hot days are producing summer like conditions with good fishing in the mornings, slow early afternoons and then the fishing picking up into the evenings. We have been starting floats later in the day and fishing until dark to get the best of the conditions. While the flows are where they are floating is a great option. But given the way the flows have been behaving, the floating on the Fork above Carbondale may not last for the usual period. So take the opportunity to float earlier rather than later.

Recommended Flies: The best results on the Fork now are from nymphing but with PMD's and a few drakes coming off in the evenings as well as caddis, there are a range of options. For nymphing using attractors, drake nymphs, midge larvae and emergers, stonefly and baetis nymphs. Good patterns include the BB FB Epoxy 20 Incher, the BTB Hot Spot 20 Incher and the CTB RL Epoxy 20 Incher


Colorado River

The Colorado continues to fish well and is in excellent condition for this time of year due to the seasonally low water. The fishing is better in the mornings and later afternoon so where there is a choice we are going out mid afternoon and floating until dark. There are a few drakes, PMD's, sallies and caddis coming off so there are a range of hatches to fish to.

Recommended Flies: Try Royal Stimulator and the Lime Trude. For nymphing use yellow sally nymphs and small baetis. For stonefly nymphs use the BTB Hot Spot 20 Incher, rubberleg patterns such as Mike's BTB Coffee/Black and the Halloween Speckled Girdle Bug, with midges, eggs, worms and small baetis patterns behind the lead fly.

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