BEN PIERCE, Chronicle Outdoors Editor May 8, 2014 May 8, 2014 Ed Kurtz, of Bozeman, is 80 years old. He's been chasing the Mother's Day caddis hatch for a while now. In the 1990s, Kurtz traveled from ...

FRISCO, Colo. (AP) - As the days get longer and the sun creeps higher into the sky, warm water migrates up the Arkansas River and little bugs start to hatch, surfacing out of the water in a mysterious ...

The caddis hatch – an eagerly awaited event for this angler if only so she can tie on a fly that she can actually see – has begun in earnest on the Colorado and lower Roaring Fork rivers.A dry caddis ...

"The Morning Hatch" is a daily dose of anything fly fishing, human interest, and sometimes from left field. It will be short, informative, and hopefully entertaining. Enjoy it as a morning starter ...

When trout and salmon gently sip floating insects off the surface, it often means that they are feeding on hatching aquatic insects, dead-drifting with the current or just sitting on still water, ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS Live fast and die young.It could be the motto of the caddis flies that flutter around the city and into windshields and car grills and nooks and crannies of all manner after a mass ...

This story is a little out of my region (the Northwest). But it’s still in the West and writer Janice Kurbjun of the Summit Daily News did a nice job with it. Plus, I’m a sucker for a good hatch.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... TEXAS CREEK — By noon on Monday, sporadic sunshine had warmed up the Arkansas River to 50 degrees as it flowed through Fremont County at Texas Creek. Another ...

In this edition of The Morning Hatch: • If you spend enough time on rivers, there is a good chance you will have an encounter with a bear. In places like Montana, Idaho, and Alaska, you may choose to ...