I have been thinking about Mom. Days on the calendar keep getting crossed off. Mother’s Day is rapidly approaching. My gaze falls over the river. A small moth bounces across the water. Closer ...

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 ...

The Mother’s Day caddis hatch — is it really on the second Sunday in May every year? Not really. It is more of a generalization for what is happening across the Rockies at that time of year. Whether ...

My windshield is a mess. Hordes of moth-like insects hatched on the lower Madison River this weekend, and they flitted about incomprehensibly in thick clouds. Some of the clouds hovered over the river ...

Green Drakes, Caddis, Yellow Sallies and Blue Wing Olives are providing great dry fly fishing on the Blue River. Barry Kirkpatrick at Cutthroat Anglers in Silverthorne says the Drake hatch is at its ...