Andy and I just finished our 4th annual Colorado fly fishing whirl-wind tour this past week. Traditionally the Arkansas River has a CFS around 1600 where we can wade the banks and throw big ugly bugs to voracious trout…but not the past two years. Colorado has had wet/cold spring causing delayed runoff. No despair…we Wayment…
Category: Can’t Tellya Creek
Sangre de Thomas
Greenbacks have been on retired veterinarian Tom’s mind for the past 5 years. Greenbacks on brush-choked-dead-fall-log-jammed backcountry streams like described in John Gierach‘s books. Bushwhacking his way to find those secretive Colorado gems and taking them stealthily on delicately placed dries tied by his own hands. Easy? Not if you have multiple sclerosis (MS). Tom…
>Trout Hunting Colorado Style
>One of my favorite upland pursuits is stealthily hunting native/wild trout on small streams in my beloved Sangre De Cristo Mountains here in Colorado with dries. Mayflies, caddis and stoneflies are still hatching in the high country above 10,500 ft…altitude more suitable for white-tailed ptarmigan, but loaded with beautiful natives. While on the lonely Arkansas…
Upland Ways 