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Frying Pan River
(Near Ruedi)
124cfs
Updated: May 19, 2025
What's on the Menu?
Updated: May 19, 2025
Upper Frying Pan (Above Mile Marker 8)
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Blue Winged Olives, Midges, Mysis Shrimp
Lower Frying Pan (Below Mile Marker 8)
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Blue Winged Olives, Midges, Caddis
Suggested Flies
Updated: May 19, 2025
Upper Frying Pan (Above Mile Marker 8)
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Nymphs: Black and Red Zebra Midges (20-24), Black Beauty Midge (20-24), Candy Cane Midge (20-24), Grey RS2 (18-22), Juju Baetis (18-22), Skinny Pheasant Tail (20-22), Mysis Shrimp (18-22), Bling Midge (20-24), San Juan Worm (14)
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Dries: Parachute Adams (20-22), Purple Haze (20-22), Extended Body BWO (20-22), Roy Palm Special Emerger (20-24), Parachute Adult Midge (20-24)
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Streamers: Sculpzilla (6-9), Wooly Bugger (6-12)
Lower Frying Pan (Below Mile Marker 8)
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Nymphs: Black and Red Zebra Midges (20-24), Black Beauty Midge (20-24), Grey RS2 (18-22), Juju Baetis (18-22), Jigged Tungsten Blowtorch (16-18), San Juan Worm (14)
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Dries: Parachute Adams (20-22), Purple Haze (20-22), Extended Body BWO (20-22), Roy Palm Special Emerger (20-24), Parachute Adult Midge (20-24), Black Elk Hair Caddis (18)
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Streamers: Sculpzilla (6-9), Wooly Bugger (6-12)
Conditions
Updated: May 19, 2025
Upper Frying Pan (Above Mile Marker 8)
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Clear
Lower Frying Pan (Below Mile Marker 8)
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Clear
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**With Run-Off Conditions, Seven Castles Creek can blow out the lower river at mile marker 4, the river will be clear above that**