Fly Fishing Colorado

9/9 Bas Pro’s Kids Day Fishing Derby last Saturday 9/6/08 was a great success.  Eighty kids plus walkins signed up for the morning fishing derby.  Eighty kids also signed up for the afternoon derby.  The Fishing Derby was held at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal.  The Arsenal is part of the National Wildlife Refuge system.  Many species [...]

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If you hold a Colorado Annual Fishing License, the license period has been extended to 3/31/2009.  The Habitat Stamp period has also been extended to 3/31/2009. Starting 4/1/2009, the fishing season  will run from 4/1 through 3/31 the next year.  (Ex. 4/1/2009 – 3/31/2010) Per a DOW representative I talked with today, this change is [...]

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7/30 There’s no denying it. Northern Pike are big toothy critters.  Especially the ones I ran across the other day in this post. This newwest.net post on pike fishing at the Cree Lodge in northern Saskatchewan, Canada caught my eye. Gene with 47 inch pike caught at Unknown Lake on Cree River – Guide Louie on right [...]

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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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 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 [...]

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