Fly Fishing Colorado

 10/23/07

My father grew up poor in Oklahoma.  Hunting and fishing were not recreational pursuits.  They were done to put meat on the table.  My father loved his fishing and hunting.  He especially loved hunting for pheasants in the Iowa cornfields after harvest.
But he loved fishing during the warm Iowa summer months for channel catfish around [...]

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 10/17/07
Little Orvis was some 27 or 28 years old.  He could not remember exactly how old.  But it did not matter.  His owner had taken good care of him and he had the strength of his youth.  Fall had arrived in Colorado again.  Orvis loved September and October especially.  Fall meant his owner would take him out on [...]

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10/14/07
From the people at  isuckatflyfishing.com, this 30 second clip of a big trout taking a streamer.  Watch him follow it in and slam it.  Wish I could get fish to take my streamer this way.  Mostly they turn their noses up and run for cover.
 
The whole video was shown at the Fly Fishing Video Film Awards show [...]

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10/11/07
Who would have thought old fishing tackle could be worth so much.  But the collection of Oklahoma’s Karl T. White is valued at more than $4 million.  The collection contains over more than 20,000 items and takes up 4,000 square feet of exhibit space.
The National Fishing Lure Collectors Club held its annual Antique Fishing Tackle [...]

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10/10/07
Tonight I was looking around youtube.com for an animated fly fishing knot video I had seen a couple of days ago. This was a simple and easy to tie knot for attaching tippet to hook.  But of course no luck tonight.  I did find this on of the Duncan loop which is also an easy to tie [...]

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