Straightline Sports | Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Recient snow and cold weather have sent the tourists to lower ground.  The stream is empty and fishing is great.  Bluewings are hatching sporadically through the day and Mahogany duns have joined the show and have fish looking up for most of the day.  #20 parachute bwo patterns like the sprout BWO are killers for […]

Tis the season for prolific streamer action.  Baitfish and Crayfish patterns on the Yampa and Elk River are hitting hard!  BWO’s are the most significant aquatic action.  Mahogany Dunns are emerging bringing the largest trout to the surface.  Trust us, this is the time of year to fish the Yampa River.  If you want to test your […]

The Yampa Valley is slowly becoming golden brown.  In other words, seasons are changing bringing prolific blue wing olive and trico hatches.The healthy trout throughout the rivers are migrating into the shallow riffles gorging on spent tricos and emerging blue wings.  It is not uncommon to see fifteen to twenty 18 + inch bows and browns in […]

Sorry we’ve been away from the computer lately.  Its been busy around here to say the least.  Tricos have taken center stage on all our waters as of late and the spinner falls have been truely epic.  Starting at dawn, fishing has been great with small trico nymphs like wd-40’s and copper johns in sizes […]

The Yampa River through Steamboat is fishing extre,mely well.  PMD’s and yellow sally’s can be expected in the morning and red quill’s are producing rising fish in the evenings.  The fish are keyed in on the rusty spinner spent wing…look for slow, calm takes in the slower water in order to spot the fish.  Some […]

     A recent article in Fly Fisherman magazine and unseasonably warm temps have contributed to increased river use in the last week.  Despite the pressure, the river keeps kicking out her fare share of good sized trout, to those who pick their water wisely and fish on the early and late margins of the day.  […]

Mornings are starting out slow, but stick with it.  The PMD’s are coming off thick at about noon.  Look for fish feeding in the foam lines and shallow riffles.  The bugs are about #14-16 and very light in color.  Trail an emerger such as Barr’s PMD emerger or a soft hackled pheasant tail behind your […]

As of noon today, the river has dipped below the 1500 cfs mark and is now down to 1380 cfs.  Conditions are ideal for throwing streamers and large sculpin and baitfish colored streamers like Coffee’s sparkle minnow and Beldar’s rubber bugger did the trick this morning.  Two guide trips yeilded numerous large  browns and some […]