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 30th August 2009

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Thursday 3rd September: The Pan continues to come down. Now it is at 304cfs. Looking very good now for the holiday weekend. It is bringing the Fork down as well so that at Basalt the Fork is now running at 489cfs. The promise is for some thunderstorms in the afternoon but nothing eventuate today even though there were some threatening clouds.

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With the water in the Pan having been dropped back to 414cfs, at the wider sections it is now good fishing with excellent conditions. The colder water appears to have slowed down the drake hatch so that there are still a few smaller drakes coming off mid-river. The higher flows have certainly slowed down the number of visitors which indicates that the priorities of the US Fish and Wildlife department don’t rank the welfare of recreational businesses and water-sports enthusiasts particularly highly. This coming week we should get a further reduction midweek. The level in Ruedi is dropping quickly and has left the marina out of the water and essentially unusable.

As we move into September this week, the colors are already starting to change on some of the trees. One always wants summer to stretch out a little more. Ski passes go on sale this week. The ski company is cutting out a range of passes which were of great benefit to locals in the past, so one wonders what they are thinking as well. Strange times. One can be sure that the slopes will not be particularly busy this year in Aspen.

We have been very happy with our business this year and note that the cabins have been heavily booked and are still seeing strong booking interest going into October. We have decided to relax the 3 night minimum policy midweek on the cabins through to the end of the season subject to availability if you take a guide trip with us. There are details on the website: Taylor Creek Cabins.

We are already getting inquiries for our Rendevous in September so we are looking forward to that being a success.

We are now posting photos separately to make the loading of the report easier for your computer. You can see the latest photos: Fly Fishing Photos.

Fishing Rendevous. We are announcing that on the weekend of the 18th – 20th September we will be having a fishing rendevous at Seven Castles. There will be campsites available for the weekend for $35. It will be a simple affair. Rod manufacturers will be in attendance on Saturday afternoon/evening so that participants can try rods on the lake on the property. The Property is at the 5 mile mark on the Frying Pan adjacent to a lot of public fishing access. The idea is simply to make the opportunity available for anyone who might not have previously fished on the Pan so that for a very modest cost they can camp out and fish the entire area over the weekend.

For more details ring the shop and book your campsite. 970-927-3441. If it is reasonably well received and successful we would like to make this an annual event.

 

Frying Pan

Current Flow: below the Dam 414cfs. (if you want more uptodate figures check out current readings on our "Links" page)

The flow was dropped midweek to 414cfs so now we have a workable flow in most parts of the river. The narrower sections are still offering some competition to waders and the flow is fast and furious for some of the dry fly fishing, but overall there was some excellent fishing this week with good hatches and not a great deal of fishing pressure.

Time marches on. With the leaves beginning to change color, the fish seem to sense that change is in the air and are tending to feed with a little more aggression.

The coming week sports promises from the weatherman in the form of cooler weather, some clouds, thunderstorms and showers. Let’s see if he delivers. He wasn’t overly successful last week. Harry, Dan and Ed reported good strong trips out during the week. On Saturday when the clouds blew in Harry had some great BWO fishing midriver. The drakes are coming off higher but mid river the colder water has held back some hatches and a few smaller flavilinea were coming off yesterday afternoon.

The seratella hatches mid afternoon mid-river have been offering some real sport. It is a matter of keep the fly very dry and fishing close to yourself so that you can get the fly to skip a little and have the fish key in on it. They don’t take much notice of anything else if they are concentrating on the seratellas.

Recommended Flies:  For the drakes try dries with emergers as droppers. The fish have been getting a lot of pressure with the drakes coming off but the higher water has eased the pressure over the past week. Consequently, it is wise to carry a range in the hope that you will be able to present something which is a little different. Try the CDC Flavilinea Dun, the Gunnison Green Drake #12, Mayfly Cripple #10, Biot hairwing #12 - #14, gray wulff #10 - #14, the Adams and Adams Female #10 - #14. At night use the H&L Variant #10 - #12. As it gets darker the fish will take the bigger fly.

In addition talk to the guides in the shop. We are trying to have at least one guide on hand in the shop each day during the season.

For drake nymph droppers try the muskrat nymph, the BH anatomical and the split-case nymphs all in #10-#12.

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.

In the morning try red quills #14 - #18 and spinners.

In addition try larger adams patterns, sulphur's #14 - #18 as well as other mayfly patterns as evening falls.

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.

For baetis try the FPA sparkle baetis #20-#22, FPA emerging baetis #22 - #26 and small pheasant tails #20 - #24. 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 and winger baetis patterns.

As the season progresses particularly with clear skies, the tippet will be most important. So be prepared for the fish to 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 - 603cfs (if you want more uptodate figures check out current readings on our "Links" page).

As the Pan drops the Fork is dropping as well. Although the floating is still good from Basalt down the better fishing has been lower down towards Glenwood with Cam describing good BWO dry fly activity for a good part of the day.

As we move out of August and into September and the temperatures drop off the big browns will start moving about after the streamers. Gary reported an excellent trip on the Colorado with streamers so it won’t be long before hoppers and streamers are producing good results on the lower Fork.

Recommended Flies: Try BWO's if the cool cloudy weather returns. Also try baetis and pmd nymphs, emergers and dries, midges and stone fly nymphs such as Mckee's and Pat's rubblerlegs and yellow sally patterns.

For PMD nymphs and emergers try Barr's emergers #16-#20, the FPA biot PMD shuck trailer emerger #16 - #18, the Bubbleback and dries such as the comparadun, Lawson's no-hackle gray/yellow and pink as well as sulphurs in the evening.

The bwos also come 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 golden stones are still coming off at night so try stonefly nymphs with smaller nymphs.

When floating try a dry/dropper combination of orange stimulators and large dry stone flies or hopper patterns, with a smaller caddis dropper, PMD nymphs and emergers or baetis nymphs and emergers. As evening progresses try double dries.

The fish will start responding to streamers very soon so try them when it is quiet or in the evenings.


Colorado River

The Colorado is still the preference for Mike, Cam and Ed for floating on the hot days fishing deep down. The fish are big and strong and want to stay in the cooler aerated waters. Ed reported good trips getting strong results on rubberlegged patterns, worms, attractors and rusty spinners. Dan reported some good floating from Grizzly with rubberlegs working in the morning as well as some red quill spinners. In the afternoon micro baetis and BWO emergers.

Recommended Flies: At the moment the best results are from nymphing deep down with stonefly, baetis and PMD nymph patterns. Streamers are starting to work higher up right against the banks.

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