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 25th October 2009

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The week progressed through some nice warm weather to some rain and snow up higher. Today was cold on the river but the fishing was excellent. The cold weather and a little wind has brought down most of the remaining leaves. The forecast is for even lower temperatures later in the week with the possibility of snow as the week progresses.

The fishing remains excellent provided one is dressed for the occasion. There were good hatches on the Pan of PMDs, BWO’s, a few October caddis and even a couple of small straggling drakes. As the fish sense the passing of autumn there is some evidence of the browns moving the stones and gravel about as they start to build the redds. So far they haven’t started into the spawn, but they are beginning to stack up intermittently.

So we will wait and see what weather the coming week brings. We will be between the 2nd and 3rd rifle seasons so it should be quiet on the river and quiet in town. A customer in the shop this week said that Aspen was practically empty of visitors. We are noticing the same in the shop with mostly locals coming in to pick up a few flies before going out to enjoy the excellent fishing.

So if you want to enjoy some excellent dry fly activity on the Pan before it gets too cold and the days are too short, put on your winter gear and make your way to the river for at least a few hours during the middle of the day and through the afternoon. You won't be disappointed.


Frying Pan

Current Flow: below the Dam 91cfs. (if you want more uptodate figures check out current readings on our "Links" page)

Earlier in the week the Bureau put the flows up by 4cfs in the Pan to 91cfs. At least the releases are heading in the right direction. We have had some rain and snow over the past couple of weeks, and the level of Ruedi seems to have stabilized. So it appears that the intention of the Bureau is to have enough water to allow reasonable releases through winter. Even though we don’t like the low flows now, if enough water can accumulate in Ruedi to allow similar or even higher flows through the coldest months of winter, the anchor ice can be limited.

This week we had some superb dry fly fishing again. The best times are from late morning through to mid afternoon. BWO’s and a few PMDs are still coming off and interestingly both Mike and I separately saw a couple of small drakes struggling in the film. There were also a few October caddis about as well.

Gary had an excellent day out yesterday proving again the benefit of smaller tippet. He had 5 refusals from 5 fish on a matthews olive comparadun baetis. He was using 6x. So he switched to 8x and used the same fly. He hooked and landed all 5 fish. A perfect example of the importance of smaller tippet when all else fails.

Harry fished lower down the Pan towards town throwing streamers and had a lot of success in the pocket water.

Mid river the hatch was subdued on Saturday but the colder weather on Sunday brought on a strong hatch and had the fish very active. They were taking olive and gray bodied dries, from BWO parachutes, gulper specials and extended body BWO’s. At one stage just to see how the fish would react I put on a #14 blue dun and immediately caught 3 fish.

The prediction is for colder weather in the coming week and the possibility of rain and snow later in the week. So the suggestion is to dress for winter fishing conditions, take out plenty of olive, blue and gray bodied dries of all sizes and take plenty of smaller tippet. The fishing should be excellent.

Recommended Flies:  As the days are getting shorter and colder those sections of the Pan which get shade in the afternoon slow down before the sunnier areas.

The PMD's are slowing down although there are still a few coming off intermittently. For the PMD's try Lawson's no-hackles #14 - #16 gray/yellow and also the pink no-hackles #14 - 16. Try comparadun patterns #16 and #18 as well as Barr's emergers and the FPA special PMD emerger.

For baetis try the FPA sparkle baetis #20-#22, FPA emerging baetis #22 - #26 and small pheasant tails #20 - #24. When they start to emerge try loopwing emergers, rs2's, and gray and olive biot patterns. When they get up on to the surface use Parachute Adams, gray special emergers, olive body dries such as the matthews sparkle dun olive #18 - #22, the cdc comparadun, parachute blue duns and gulper specials.

The midges will come off during the day, particularly if it is sunny. So try WD-40's #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. Mike reported great success this week on smaller black midges such as the miracle midge.

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, loopwing emergers #20 - #22 and FPA special emergers #20 - #26.

The fish are keying in on the smaller flies and are taking time to inspect the presentation. So don't be surprised as the fish become more particular on presentation and anything else which might alert them to any risk. At this time of year, particularly in the slower water 7x is the minimum and 8 - 9x should be considered if the fish are particularly wary.


Roaring Fork

Current Flow: near Emma - 327cfs (if you want more uptodate figures check out current readings on our "Links" page).

The flow in the Fork remains in the low 300s. Most of the float traffic continues to prefer the Colorado at the moment so the Fork remains very quiet.

Mike fished the Fork near Basalt on Saturday afternoon and reported quite a lot of fish taking egg patterns. The colder weather in the coming week should hasten the browns on to the redds so eggs and attractors will continue to work. There are still BWO’s coming off but the better results are from nymphing.

The big browns are now responding to streamers so try patterns like the autumn splendor, the yellow Madonna, woolly buggers. If the fish are short striking, use patterns with stinger hooks.

Recommended Flies: The bwos are still coming off, particularly when it is cloudy so try baetis nymphs and emergers such as rs2's , FPA sparkle baetis #20 - #22 and the FPA emerging baetis #22 - #24. In addition try the matthews, adams and parachute adams.

The midge hatches remain strong in the mornings and the evenings so look at our Pan recommendations for some midges to try.

The browns are getting ready to spawn now so if the fishing is slow try egg patterns, and attractors such as princes and worm patterns. Its basic but it works.

For streamers try the autumn Splendor, the Yellow Madonnas and the olive woolly buggers. Try streamers with stinger hooks. This will help solve the short striking problem of big browns.


Colorado River

The flows in the Colorado have ensured that it is still the preferred destination for float traffic. As the weather cools down and the fish move onto the redds and out of the deeper water eggs and attractor patterns will be working well. Streamers are working well now.

Recommended Flies: At the moment the best results are from nymphing deep down with stonefly, baetis and PMD nymph patterns. Streamers are also working well right against the banks. The fish are now coming to the surface taking dries into the evenings.

Use streamers such as the autumn splendor, the yellow madonna and woolly buggers. In addition as they move into the spawn use egg patterns, and attractors such as princes, worms and hare's ears.

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