Fly Fishing Colorado and the Driftless Area
Winter Park Resort got dumped on this week. 53" of snow in 7 days. On the best snow day of the season I had the day off and instead of skiing/snowboarding I spent the day fishing some of the local waters. I caught a bunch of flak from my coworkers and roommates for this decision … Continue reading 2020 Week 6
This past week I made it out on the water twice and spent the weekend hanging out in Estes Park. On Thursday I worked a half day then headed west to fish for the afternoon. I showed up to a snowstorm and fished for a few hours as the snow dumped. It was a beautiful … Continue reading 2020 Week 5
This past week was a busy one! Once my friend Dillan left town I had a few days before the next round of people came out to visit me. I worked two of those days but had the opportunity to fish on the third one. The day that I made it out was an overcast … Continue reading 2020 Week 4
It seems to be a common theme so far this year that I'm only making it out on the river once a week. It feels weird to say but that's alright for the time being. There is some fishing close to where I live/work yet it's a small creek that only has a few ice … Continue reading 2020 Week 3
There was a little bit of fishing done this past week. On Thursday Jess and I hiked in and fished a river close to town. We headed out after I got released from work around 10am. Between the drive over and hiking in we didn't start fishing until around 1:30, towards the end of the … Continue reading 2020 Week 2
6. Mountain Bumming Arkansas, Gunnison, Taylor, Uncompahgre Rivers -> April 5-9 On this trip I turned a planned 2 day weekend outing into a 5 day car camping, mountain exploring, trout bumming excursion. I witnessed a number of amazing sights and found a couple fish along the way. The trip started out along the Arkansas … Continue reading Best of 2019: Top 10 Trips | Part 2
The ole blazer put on a few miles last year I spent a lot of time in 2019 on trips across the rockies and in the midwest. To say the least, it was a big travel year for me. I spent time fishing in 9 different states; Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, New Mexico, South Dakota, … Continue reading Best of 2019: Top 10 Trips | Part 1
4/1/2019 Before heading back to Colorado I was able to go fishing a couple more times with Dillan and my dad. On Monday Dillan and I went back to an old favorite stretch of water that neither of us had fished in a couple of years. I was pleased to see that things hadn't changed … Continue reading Driftless Days | 4/1-2/2019
One of the things I miss most about the midwest... KT After hitting the highway Wednesday evening after work in Denver I finally made it back home to Minnesota around mid-day on Thursday. It was going to be a quick weekend of seeing some family and friends, though the main reason that I was back … Continue reading 1 Fly, 2 Days, 3 States | 3/29-30/2019
When my dad and I heard word that we were going to go on a big family trip to Cancún Mexico one of our first thoughts was planning out how we could tie some fishing into the trip. Neither of us had ever done any saltwater fishing before and we knew that we wouldn't have … Continue reading Cancún | 3/16-21/2019
