Category: fishing

I was going through some old posts, trying to update tags, and somehow this must have only been a draft. So it was posted in 2013, two years after the fact. I don’t have time to do this up right, and I know these are just notes-to-self, but let me just lay them down anyway.…

Man oh man, what a great day of fishing. I have never done well on the Arkansas. I had assumed that the flows would be too high to do well this time. Boy was I wrong. The river was totally manageable. My sense, and this is as likely wrong as right, is that the river…

Pretty nice water. From Boulder, 93 to 6 to the second bridge. Caught some pretty good-sized (for me) rainbows. Used a little rainbow something-or-other nymph on top and did OK with big green beadheads on the bottom. Needed some split-shot but couldn’t find it, so had to rely on the big fellas just sinking. Was…

Marble, CO. That is all.

In the Canyon, about 10.5 mi. from the Canyon/Broadway intersection. Maybe two hours. Elk Hair Caddis on top with various nymphs down below. Started slow in some likely-looking water. Thought it was gonna be a dead day. Then started pulling out lots of fishing. Mostly tiny-to-small cutthroats, like this fella: They fight pretty nicely. Deep…

So last year I did the South Fork of the Stanislaus from the bridge in Strawberry. This year I wanted to hit some more remote terrain and so was asking around about access points to the Middle Fork. There was a campground (can’t remember name … bad blogger!) about 8 mi. down from Pinecrest that…

Had a great Father’s Day outing here. Flyshop in Silverthorne, Cutthroat Anglers, made it seem like it’d be a tough day. Probably was, but I had some decent action and caught two fish. Was using a 14 or 16 golden stonefly nymph (caught one on that) with a big (probably 10) hot pink San Juan…

Got skunked on lots of big heavy wet stuff. View 200905xx-St. Vrain @ White Gate in a larger map