Fly Fishing Colorado

3/16/13 I have not written many posts since last summer since the water conditions were so bad in Colorado. Even though many fly shops said it was a great fishing year, I had to go to Wyoming for my great fishing. As of the last update in March, the Colorado snow pack statewide was at [...]

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Monday dawned clear and hot early on. We arrived at the Trumbull – Swayback improvement area about 8:30 and wer on the rive at 9 AM. The water was gin clear, the sky was clear and the air temperature was already at 80 degrees.  From the bridge, we could see a pod of 6 fish [...]

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This year is my 43rd fly fishing season. Up to this High Plains Drifters trip, I didn’t really care about fly fishing this year. Burned out, some would say. But a 40 to 50 fish day on Sunday April 22nd completely turned my attitude around. An exciting day where the smallest fish was 14 inches [...]

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Colorado River On my way back from Stage Coach State Park this weekend, I stopped to fish the Colorado at Hot Sulphur Springs. I parked in anglers parking on the north side of the river by the campground area in town. While gearing up, an Iron Dun mayfly size 16 landed on the car.  My [...]

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Colorado State Park was beautiful this last weekend. Four days of sunshine with some light showers and some wind on Saturday. The reservoir fished well at the inlet with bait for rainbows in the 17 to 20 inch class. On Friday, my friend Joanie and I went to the Gold Medal Water below the dam. [...]

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