Discover the legendary Elk Hair Caddis fly created by Al Troth in 1957. Learn why this durable, easy-to-tie pattern remains one of fly fishing's most effective and versatile dry flies.

Ryan McMahon gathers the ingredients for making an elk-hair caddis fly: brown dry fly hackle (rooster neck feather), elk hair (preferably light), dubbing (made from the under-body of muskrat, beaver, ...

It’s been 3 years since a trout looked at an Elk Hair Caddis on the Conejos river in southern Colorado. This year was different. Maybe it was because the river flow was running 150% of normal in late ...

If you walk into any fly shop in the Vail Valley right now, then I’m sure you will hear the same thing from all of the guides and shop-dogs mouths. The caddisfly hatch is the Eagle River’s best known ...

BUTTE - Fishing guide and fly tying innovator Al Troth has died after a lengthy battle with Parkinson's disease and dementia. He was 82. Brundage Funeral Home says Troth died in Dillon on Aug. 3.

DECKERS — Almost overnight, spring had turned to summer along the South Platte River. Streamside willows had leafed out, lush green grasses carpeted its banks, and here and there, under the early ...

LIVINGSTON — May is a month when trout gorge. Following a long winter of fairly skimpy food, the emergence of the prolific Mother's Day caddis provides an opportunity for gluttony. Fly anglers rejoice ...

Sustainability is the watchword these days. Fall and spring hunting go hand in hand with the fly tyer’s bench, and harvesting meat and materials can coincide. Flies are still created by hand these ...

The Mother’s Day caddis hatch — is it really on the second Sunday in May every year? Not really. It is more of a generalization for what is happening across the Rockies at that time of year. Whether ...

BASALT – Mother’s Day caddis. These three words make fisherman shutter in their wading boots as spring finally takes hold. Though the Roaring Fork and Colorado rivers have good mayfly hatches, both ...

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