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 2nd November 2008


A week of fine weather, some excellent dry fly fishing on the Pan and the prospect of cooler weather and some showers in the coming days. The browns are stacking up for the spawn and are quite aggressive now. The majority of leaves have gone and we have gone off daylight saving.

This is the first Halloween for some time where we haven’t had any snow or cold weather. The hunters have not had a good run either because of the warm and lack of precipitation. So we are due for a change shortly. The Pan continues to ran at an unreasonable 79cfs for this time of year. It is great for the dry fly fishing but not great for the fish. The streamer fishing on the Fork is good now floating below Carbondale.

So we are now into our last burst of good weather before it changes. Three weeks to thanksgiving and the start of the ski season! Can you believe it! The weather has cooled a little this weekend with some more cloud cover and wind portending a change. The forecast is for a top of 31degrees on Wednesday and some snow, so maybe that will mark the first snow of the season at our altitude.

It has certainly been dry now for quite a while. One would have expected a little more rain or snow by now. Usually the deer and elk would be down lower. Even the bighorn sheep are not present in great numbers. I saw a big ram in the field yesterday but he was alone. Usually there would be a lot of sheep feeding on the pasture. Last year was quite dry up until December as well and the ski fields had little cover. But then it all came in a rush. Will this year be a repeat? The Farmers Almanac is calling for a colder but drier winter for our region. We will just have to wait and see.

We are going through our preseason ordering now and are looking to expand our range of merchandise quite significantly next year. With the tightness in consumer credit and the slowdown in consumer spending we are expecting that the coming season will not be kind to high end merchandise. But we are expecting a significant interest in fishing as people expand their local activities in preference to traveling further afield or indulging in more exotic activities. So for our part, we will be offering a new range of special deals in the coming year with an expanded range of rods and reels to make the acquisition of fishing equipment even more accessible. Of course we will let you know in due course. In terms of our range of flies, at this point we intend increasing our range of patterns and sizes by at least 1000. That will bring our total to over 3,500 patterns and sizes of trout flies. Where will we fit them all, you may well ask. We think we have solved the equation and will make the changes over winter. We have work to do.

In the meantime, we will continue to enjoy the autumn fishing pending the arrival of the first snows and cold weather.

Ed took off a couple of days for some
Florida fishing and sent us some great photos.

 

Frying Pan

Current Flow: below the Dam - 79cfs. (if you want more uptodate figures check out current readings on our "Links" page)

The fishing remains excellent on the Pan even though the ridiculously low flows aren’t great for the fish. The hatch activity is slowing down but the fish remain aggressive and are feeding well. The fish have been taking a range of BWO and midge patterns.

Yesterday midriver, although there was not much evidence of surface activity the fish had no hestitation taking dries such as the adams, and the parachute adams #24 - #26.

Today was different. The fish were not feeding on the surface but did they feed lower down! I fished with Gary midriver from midday through the afternoon and we had excellent fishing. They took a range of flies from rs2’s #20-#26, mercury rs2’s #22 and #24, pheasant tails, and then as the day progressed, the chartreuse copper john #18 - #22. It was a truly excellent days fishing for autumn and fully justified the reputation that autumn fishing has on the Pan with locals. There’s no point indicating just how good the fishing really was because no-one would believe us. However, here are 2 fish exemplifying the quality of the fishing. "Spectacular!" is one word which springs to mind.

A 19 inch brown taken on a copper john.

A 20 inch rainbow which took a #22 mercury RS2.

 

Recommended Flies:  We are now well into Autumn so as the season progresses and it cools down, the bugs are getting smaller. So be prepared mostly for midges and BWO's. In addition as the fish are staging for the spawn, try egg patterns.

The midges will come off during the day, particularly if it is sunny. So try WD-40's #20 , red and black chironocones #20, brassie's #18 - #22, midge larva patterns #18 - #22, copper johns #18 - #22, black polywings #18 - #22 and garcia's rojo midges # 18 - #22.

If the fish start moving higher in the water column or get active under the surface, 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.

When they are on the surface, try dry patterns such as the z-wing real midge, suspended midge and any similar dry black and gray patterns such as a parachute Adams in sizes from #20 through to #28.

For baetis, try some small nymph patterns such as pheasant tails and the FPA sparkle baetis #20 - #24 down deep. In addition try the emerger patterns like crystal hunchback, juju baetis, the mighty mite, icebreakers and the FPA sparkle baetis - #18 - #24 and rs2 #18 - #22 and soft hackle baetis #18 -#22.

If BWO’s start to come off try dry patterns like the adams and parachute adams #20-#24 and the matthews #18 - #24 with an emerger dropper. If the fish are under the surface try fishing 2 emergers with a very small weight to get the flies down a little. An rs2#20 behind an FPA emerger or sparkle baetis with a thorax bead will do the trick.

On the bright days the BWO's will tend to come off in the shade. But if it starts to rain, don't come in. Just stay out on the water as long as you can.

Now that the browns are beginning to spawn use egg patterns but try and stay clear of the redds.


Roaring Fork

Current Flow: near Emma - 295cfs (if you want more uptodate figures check out current readings on our "Links" page).

The drop in the flow has made rafting in anything but a single from Basalt a questionable proposition. The wade fishing remains excellent with the last of the hatches bringing on the feeding fish, but we are getting close to the end of the season.

The floating from Carbondale down offers good streamer fishing and with the browns staging for the spawn they are getting aggressive. Travis and Chris reported good streamer fishing floating from Carbondale during the past week.

As the weather appears to be closing in, try and get out on the river once more if you can. Before long it will just be memories of a great season past.

Recommended Flies: Try baetis and midges. Lower down towards Glenwood try PMD nymphs and emergers on a warm day.

For baetis try nymph patterns such as pheasant tails #18 - #24. Baetis emergers try RS2, the crystal hunchback, juju baetis, the mighty mite, icebreakers and the FPA sparkle baetis - #18 - #24. Try Barrs emergers, the bubbleback, and the FPA PMD beadtail emergers.

For midges look at our suggestions for the Pan.

In addition, try princes, san juan worms, egg patterns, brassies, and copper johns.

If you are floating, try streamers.

 

Colorado River

The Colorado continues to offer some excellent fishing, particularly below Two Rivers and even though the numbers of fish do not equate to the Fork they are big strong fish and will feed aggressively.

Recommended Flies: BWO nymphs, emergers and dries; midge emergers and dries during the hatches, larger PMD nymphs down to #14 as well as emergers and dries, 20 inchers size #10 - #14; streamers #2 - #8.

 
 

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