BILLINGS – If you’ve ever wondered about the water quality in a stream, river or lake you are fishing, just ask a mayfly. Mayflies are winged insects that spend the early stages of their life ...

In this edition of The Starting Spot: -If you’ve ever been around a lake during a mayfly hatch you can imagine just how big of an impact a natural event like that can have on an ecosystem. The sudden ...

What a wonderful time to be fishing the Eagle or Colorado Rivers. The bugs are out and cool rains have placed the rivers into a healthier temperature range. Sorting out a few reliable flies to target ...

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At Lake Davis, a midsummer's night dream has emerged on what was once the grandest of stages of Sierra Nevada lakes. Several times in the past few weeks, a fog-like eruption of giant mayflies hatched ...