Preparing for Hunting Season It may be August to you, but it's "getting ready month" for thousands of hunters in Colorado. Early upland game and waterfowl seasons are scheduled to open in a few weeks, and some big game seasons...

Fishing with “flies” traces its origins back to the ancient Greeks, who would catch “fish with speckled skins” using hooks dressed with crimson wool and wax-colored feathers from a rooster’s neck. Since these humble beginnings, the art of fly tying...

We were fishing for brook trout on a little meadow stream somewhere in the Medicine Bow Mountains when we heard a short, high-pitched whistle coming from the rock-studded hillside above us. At first, we thought it might be a bird...

“Left side back, right side forward!” I scream. The paddlers in front of me, clients taking a day trip down Browns Canyon of the Arkansas River, respond quickly, without having to mull their lefts and their rights. Our raft turns...

Fly-fishing the caddis frenzy The Mother’s Day caddis hatch on the Arkansas River is one of those events Colorado fly-fishers look forward to every spring, although how it came to be named the Mother’s Day Hatch is anybody’s guess since...

A bird call pierces the crisp morning air near my cabin in the Poudre Canyon. “Ping! Ping! Ping!” Living on my own, I enjoy getting to know my wildlife neighbors, large and small. They are fascinating company. The high-pitched note...