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 8th July 2007

The rivers continue to come down and the water quality is excellent. It has been very hot for most of the week although there is cloud building each day and the threat of rain is growing. At some point we will get the afternoon thundery showers we have been promised by the weatherman.

The countryside remains unseasonally dry at the moment so any rain will be welcome. The flow at Basalt in the Fork is 755cfs which is a dramatic drop from 2 weeks ago. This week the minds at the Bureau of Reclamation continue to confound after raising the Pan to 320cfs last Saturday, they spent the week dropping the releases incrementally so that the current flow is 182cfs. I wonder what they will do next week.

The drakes have moved up the Fork and are reported coming off towards Woody Creek in the evenings. There is not much evidence of them on the Pan as yet but it is only a matter of a few days, particularly with the flow having dropped.

We are very busy now with a lot of visitors in town and a lot of fisherman along the Pan. The reduced flow renders it more accessible for wading in most places for those who are a little unsteady. There were more cars parked along the Pan yesterday than I have seen all year.

With the conditions now in the Fork so good, there is ample room to access some good fishing, particularly if you are prepared to walk in a little. So if you have a mild resistance to shoulder to shoulder fishing, consider fishing the Pan above Ruedi or the Roaring Fork. In addition there are plenty of streams higher up which are accessible if you want to walk a little to some beaver ponds.

If you want some directions come in or call the shop and we will happily point you in the right direction. Alternatively consider floating down the Fork with one of our guides. You will experience some excellent fishing, a little whitewater rafting and some excellent sightseeing all at once. As the traffic builds up along the most accessible parts of the river, a little walking will get you to some uninterrupted places where the fishing will be excellent.

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 - 182cfs. (if you want more uptodate figures check out current readings on our "Links" page)

During the past week the Bureau of Reclamation dropped the flow incrementally so that the Pan is now running at 182cfs, quite a drop from the 320cfs a week ago. It must confuse the fish to move into an apparently deep dark protected run to find within a few days that they become vulnerable in ankle deep water as an unnamed bureaucrat changes his or her mind about water flows. The world works in a wondrous way. Still the lower flows will make wading a little easier for those who are unsteady on one's feet.

At some time this week there will be the first reports for this year of drakes coming off along the Pan. There are now several hatches of PMD's a day. In addition, midges are coming off mornings, afternoon and evenings while BWO's will come off if there is any cloud cover, or on the bright days, in the shade. There are caddis as well, particularly in the evenings but they are not as dominant as on the Fork.

Recommended Flies: 

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 try 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 - 755cfs (if you want more uptodate figures check out current readings on our "Links" page).

The flow continues to drop and now the water condition is generally excellent. The reduced flow from the Pan this week has brought the flow lower below Basalt. The best fishing is either in the mornings or the evenings as it slows down in the afternoon for a couple of hours.

Ed, Mal, Cameron and Harry have all reported good floating during the week. In the evenings the hatches are prolific and Travis reported great fishing just before dark near Basalt. Lower down it is the same with the bugs coming off prolifically as darkness falls. The drakes are now higher up the Fork but the fish will still remember them lower down with a few stragglers still about from time to time.

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 evenings.

Colorado River

The Colorado has big water at the moment and plenty of rafters enjoying the conditions. The water conditions are now good with the Fork coming down so nicely. Ed reports excellent fishing in the evening on the Colorado indicating that yellow sallies are coming off well, although the drakes are abating.

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. Green drake emergers and dries.

 

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