The baetis nymphs found in Colorado river systems can range in size from 16 to 22, so carry a variety of sizes to match. You'll notice that as it gets later in spring and the annual runoff ...

Nymphs should consist of mysis shrimp, small eggs, small midge larvae and baetis nymphs. Dry flies should be on 7x, nymphs on 5 and 6x. We highly suggest checking out the stretches below Baetis Bridge ...

Baetis will be slightly larger on the Colorado and Roaring Fork rivers (size 18 to 20) and are smaller on the Fryingpan (size 20 to 22). Many of us fish a dry-fly followed by and emerger or nymph, as ...

The BMW Foam Top RS2 Flies don’t have to be super-exact, and we dub this fly the BMW because it imitates “baetis, midges, whatever.” Simply tied in gray or black versions with a square-cut white foam ...

Bighorn River: Baetis (size 14-16) will work on overcast days. UV JuJu baetis, black Wonder nymph and a Downey’s baetis nymph will take trout. Midges and sowbugs are working as well.

In addition to the brown San Juan worms, fishing for trout in the quality waters was good using black, crème and red midge pupa pattern flies, small Baetis nymph flies and RS2’s.

Short and Sweet: It’s been very warm in Basalt this week and the Fryingpan is fishing extremely well. We are seeing a few baetis adults buzzing around, but the trout are still primarily interested in ...