Category: fishing

So I am told that I have been catching browns. They do look a lot like the guy above, most distinctively with the row of pink spots that can appear along the midline. Caught a bunch yesterday. I really need to spend more time between the big rock (my name for it) and the vehicle…

I am considering South Boulder Creek in El Dorado Canyon State Park to be my local water for the summer. View Larger Map Been out there a half-dozen times in the last couple of weeks. and am having a blast with it. Yesterday morning (Monday, 8/4, 6 a.m. to 11 a.m.) I caught ten fish…

Colleague invites me up to his place, from which we can fish. Beautiful drive to his place, beautiful water to fish, but not as much time on the water as I would have liked. First day fishing on the new line (Gold something or other, 5 weight) and the casting is good. I identify a…

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So, Old Colleague asks if I want to fish. Is the Pope Catholic? Ends up being 2.5 hour drive to small, blown out creek on private water (paying $60 for the privilege). I catch the same fish twice, I think, in the very first pool, though I made two passes on the mile or so…

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I am going to try to post some recollections of my too-infrequent fly-fishing excursions. I am rapidly becoming obsessed with this incredible pastime and want to remember where I fish and how it goes. I am a novice fly-fisherman and frankly don’t have 5% of the knowledge I’d really need to do things right. Hell,…

With friends from Germany, at Brainard Lake near Ward. Great place to take kids fishing because the brookies are hungry! This was in July 2007.