Fly Fishing Colorado

1/29 Even though this story happened last year, it is still newsworthy. The Fishing Geeks, Adam and Sean Konrad, 26 year old identical twins from Saskatchewan, are not strangers to the trophy trout world.  Sean holds the Saskatchewan, Canada provincial record, a massive 34 inch by 27 inch girth 28.45 lb rainbow on 8 lb test line from Lake Defienbaker.  This [...]

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1/27Rock Snot Didymosphenia geminata commonly known as didymo or rock snot is increasingly clogging our rivers and waterways. What does rock snot do? Didaymo or rock snot is a diatom (single celled) algae that grows on rocks in a continually wet environment like rivers and streams. It attaches it self to rocks and the stream [...]

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1/21 On my site home page, I had talked about the High Plains Drifters chapter of Federation of Fly Fishers kids day fly fishing clinic, June 21, 2008.  This year the HPD would like to have 50 kids enrolled for this day of fly fishing instruction, casting classes and fishing in a stocked pond.  If [...]

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 1/19 Announcing the Cystic Fibrosis Spring Alpine Angling Classic.  This is a worthy corporate tax deductible event combined with fly fishing for large spring hungry rainbows, cutthroats and brookies.   June 7, 2008 Nestled just below timberline in the mountains east of Fairplay and only 90 minutes from Denver, Bartle Lakes is a private, members only [...]

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