South Platte · Colorado · Est. 2025

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A tan Elk Hair Caddis dry fly — pale flared elk-hair wing tied tent-style over ginger palmered hackle and a tan dubbed body on a gold dry-fly hook

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The Elk Hair Caddis: My High-Floating Searching Dry for South Platte Summers

How I fish the Elk Hair Caddis on the South Platte — why it floats so high, when to skitter it, and the tan, olive, and peacock sizes I actually trust.

September 7, 2026 Read the story

Arkansas River at Pueblo tailwater at sunset — cottonwood silhouettes and orange sky

Arkansas River — Pueblo Tailwater Hatch Report — September 5, 2026

September 5, 2026 hatch report for Arkansas River — Pueblo Tailwater: current flows, what's hatching, and what's working this week on the water.

September 5, 20265 min read

The South Platte in Cheesman Canyon — the river running dark and broken over a cobble bottom with ponderosa timber standing right down to both banks, the far wall already in shadow and only the tops of the pines still holding light

Cheesman Canyon Hatch Report — September 5, 2026

September 5, 2026 hatch report for Cheesman Canyon: current flows, what's hatching, and what's working this week on the water.

September 5, 20265 min read

The South Platte at Deckers — the river running clear and broken over a shallow cobble bed, granite domes and ponderosa on the far hillside, the canyon road following the bank on the right

Deckers Hatch Report — September 5, 2026

September 5, 2026 hatch report for Deckers: current flows, what's hatching, and what's working this week on the water.

September 5, 20264 min read

The Dream Stream under a hard blue midday sky — thin, low water spread wide over an exposed rock bar, a bald treeless hill rising straight out of the far bank, old homestead cabins on the slope, and no shade anywhere on the river

Dream Stream Hatch Report — September 5, 2026

September 5, 2026 hatch report for Dream Stream: current flows, what's hatching, and what's working this week on the water.

September 5, 20264 min read

Eleven Mile Canyon — the South Platte running clear and blue-green over a rocky bed between steep granite walls, pines climbing the canyon sides, tall summer clouds overhead

Eleven Mile Canyon Hatch Report — September 5, 2026

September 5, 2026 hatch report for Eleven Mile Canyon: current flows, what's hatching, and what's working this week on the water.

September 5, 20264 min read

South Platte meadow water above Spinney Mountain Reservoir — Badger Basin State Wildlife Area

South Platte — Above Spinney Hatch Report — September 5, 2026

September 5, 2026 hatch report for South Platte — Above Spinney: current flows, what's hatching, and what's working this week on the water.

September 5, 20264 min read

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