Fly Fishing Colorado and the Driftless Area
Somewhere in the mountains... They close off this river access road for elk to winter in the area. While walking in Monday morning I saw around 25 of them sky lined on the ridge above the road. The 2.5 mile walk down to the river from the parking area drastically limits the number of anglers … Continue reading Death March | 1/28-29/2019
Last summer on our way back from fishmasters (a weekend where all of the guides from Sasquatch Fly Fishing head south to camp out and fish) the two guys I was riding with and I decided to make a pit stop on a new river that none of us had fished before. We found a … Continue reading New Water | 1/22/2019
Wednesday, January 16th Last Wednesday I was on my way to go snowboarding and had an hour to kill before the afternoon rate started. I decided to make the most of it so I made a pitstop and wanted to see if I could find some cutthroat in the mostly frozen stream that I had … Continue reading Cutty Country | 1/16/2019 and 1/21/2019
The game-plan was to leave Denver mid-day on Monday, find a good spot in the campground to set up camp in the daylight, camp out over night there, then fish the next day. If only I had read the dates right for the fly tying night... I had thought that the 14th was a Tuesday … Continue reading Winter Hammocking, Trial 2 | 1/14/2019
This past Tuesday I traveled up to Cheeseman Canyon and spend the day trying to fool some of the toughest, high pressure trout that Colorado has to offer. This was my third time fishing the canyon since moving to Denver in October. Like the previous two outing on this section of the South Platte River, … Continue reading Say Cheese | 1/15/19
Three summers ago I spent my first night camping out in the woods in a hammock. Since then, sleeping in a hammock has taken preference over sleeping in a tent while camping for me. One aspect of hammock camping that I have never tried but have always been interested in trying has been winter hammocking … Continue reading Winter Hammocking, Trial 1 | 1/7/2019
The work-schedule for the next week was posted around 8pm Sunday night and when I read that I had the next two days off (Monday and Tuesday) I got pretty excited. My mind raced with all of the possibilities of things I could do with two days off in the middle of the work week. … Continue reading Back in CO | 1/8/2019
If you read my latest post State Park Season Sucks you would know that the 2 and a half months that lead up to January 1st is my least favorite time of the year to be a trout fisherman in Minnesota. January 1st though starts my favorite trout fishing month of the year in Minnesota … Continue reading 2019 Trout Opener | 1/1/2019
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