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 29th July 2007

We got some serious rain over the past week – enough to color up the Fork and cause cancellations of float trips on 2 separate occasions. The Crystal Valley seemed to get the worst of it making fishing below Carbondale a losing proposition. Even yesterday with the Mountain Fair on at Carbondale, the Crystal was still depositing little more than mud into the Fork. However the Fork itself has cleared overnight and higher up the water condition is good. The Pan essentially remained pristine for most of the time, however a downpour earlier in the week caused Taylor Creek to color up. But by next morning it was clear.

The weather is forecast to remain the same with afternoon rain and thunderstorms during the next week. Even though the probability of rain is less than 50% as occurred this week, if it does rain higher up the Roaring Fork Valley in the evening it does affect it lower down next day.

The flow in the Pan was pushed up on Saturday evening to 263cfs which is an ideal flow, although it will make wading a little tougher in some places. It has now come up over 80cfs since last week and that has contributed to a higher flow in the Fork. The clear Pan water serves to assist in dissipating colored water in the Fork below Basalt as well. With the Fork now running at 688cfs at Basalt augmented by the additional flow from the Pan, the water level is now excellent and is settling down after the recent rains.

With a few days of colored water on the Fork, the fishermen lined up along the banks of the Pan increasing the pressure even more at the height of the season. However as the water conditions settle in the Fork there will be ample opportunity to explore that if you want to get away from the crowds in the coming week.

Feel free to call us at the shop to get an update on the weather and the conditions if you are coming up. In particular, if you are lower down Valley, don't be perturbed by the color from the Crystal as the conditions improved markedly above Carbondale.

For those who might be interested in booking the Taylor Creek Cabins we advise that we a fully booked for July and August and only have a few days left for September.

Frying Pan

Current Flow: below the Dam - 263cfs. (if you want more uptodate figures check out current readings on our "Links" page)

Over the past week the Bureau increased the releases into the Pan on 2 separate occasions, the last being on Saturday evening. Currently it is running at 263cfs which is a good level for the fish, although a little difficult for wading in the narrower sections of the river if you are a little unsteady on your feet.

The cloudy afternoons and rain over the past week afforded some excellent hatches and some great fishing. The fish are responding well to drakes, pmd's and BWO's and for variety midges. Use a combination of drakes, pmd's and BWO's.

Now we are in full swing on the Pan with the drakes as well as two hatches of PMD's a day. In addition, midges are coming off morning afternoon and evenings while BWO's will come off if there is any cloud cover, or on the bright days, in the shade. They will also come off in the evenings. There are caddis as well particularly in the evenings but they are not as dominant on the Pan as the Fork.

So with a full range of hatches throughout the day and into the evening, just be well stocked with flies and be prepared for the range of possible weather you might encounter.

Recommended Flies: 

For drakes try the dries, cripples emergers and the nymphs. Over the next month or so, there will be so many drakes offered to the fish on the Pan that they will become very selective. The solution will be a combination of good presentation and perhaps a pattern with a touch variation from the norm.

With PMD's coming off try emergers and dries. A barr's emerger or the FPA PMD emerger #18 work well. Also try the hunch back #18 and the #18 special emerger. Try fishing them behind orange stimulators. If the activity is a little slow during the day, try some nymphs down deeper.

For baetis t ry a small FPA sparkle baetis, a thorax sparkle baetis, the icebreaker or a pheasant tail before they start to rise. Try sizes #18 - #22. In addition, when the BWO's start coming off try RS2's and other emerger patterns behind a dry. It doesn't hurt to try the emergers behind the nymphs if the fish are staying down in the higher water. For dries, use parachute Adams, Matthews sparkle baetis, biot BWO, the extended body BWO and the grizzly Adams. Take sizes from #18 - #24.

Midges come off during the day and in the evenings so try WD-40's #20 , red and black chironocones #20, brassie's #18 - #22, midge larva patterns #18 - #22, black polywings #18 - #22 and garcia's rojo midges # 18 - #22. Try the gray loopwing emergers #20 - #22, the special emergers both with and without the trailing shuck and gray RS2's #18 - #22. Also carry 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.

There are some caddis coming off on the Pan so try emergers and dries towards evening. In the evenings or in the shade, the caddis will be coming down to the surface. Try the crawling caddis as well. During the heat of the day, try terrestrials such as hoppers close to the banks where they are undercut.

Roaring Fork

Current Flow: near Emma - 688cfs (if you want more uptodate figures check out current readings on our "Links" page).

The rains over the past week made the Fork unfishable higher up on 2 occasions, Monday and Saturday. Below Carbondale, it has been that way all week with the Crystal continuing to dump color and, on occasions, plain mud into the Fork lower down.

Generally, above Carbondale, the day after heavy rains, the water is colored until mid-afternoon and then it clears by the evening. So if you find that the Fork is colored in the morning wait until the afternoon. Alternatively just travel further up towards Aspen and the likelihood is that it will be clearer unless there have been particularly heavy rains higher in that catchment.

The fishing has generally been excellent, particularly when it has clouded up, but changes in the water conditions have put the fish down a little on some occasions. With the flow at Basalt currently at 688cfs, considering that the Pan is 80cfs higher this week, by deducting that increment it is more indicative of the degree to which the flow in the Fork has settled down. So in the coming week the only thing which will interfere which great fishing up higher will be overnight thunderstorms. The lower down the Fork one goes, particularly below Carbondale the conditions are more problematic. So if you are coming up and rain is in evidence, give the shop a call to get a more up to date read on the conditions.

Recommended Flies:

Overall the best results on the Fork are from nymphing.

During the day use PMD and BWO nymphs and emergers behind hopper or stimulator patterns. If you are nymphing deep down, use plenty of weight in the fast running water and pick where the fish are a little protected behind structure or deeper down in the slower water.

In addition use caddis emergers as well. For variety put on a stone fly or a drake nymph during the day fished deep if things slow down.

In the afternoons and evenings there is a myriad of bugs coming off or in the air, yet the fish are still keeping low most of the time. So continue to use PMD and BWO nymphs and emergers. Use caddis pupa and emerger patterns as well as the caddis are prolific in the shade and towards evenings.

With the drakes coming off higher up the Fork use drake nymphs and emergers in the afternoons and evenings.

Colorado River

With the Crystal River dumping mud and a lot of color into the Fork, the Colorado was a mess during this past week. With the prospect of further rains during the coming week, it is more than likely that it will happen again. If such condition are a problem for you, just come further up the Roaring Fork Valley. The higher you come the better the water conditions will get. However if there have been reports of generally heavy rain, check with our shop to see how the conditions are further up valley. It may save you a trip.

Recommended Flies: caddis dries and emergers, PMDs - nymphs emergers and dries; bwo's - nymphs emergers and dries; yellow sallies #16 - #18; 20 inchers size #10 - #14; streamers #6 and #8.
 

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