Tuesday was one of those Indian Summer days that cried out "Fly fishing today!" The weather promised to be sunny and warm around 65 degrees at O'Fallon Park outside of Kittridge, CO. There is nothing better than Colorado Blue Sky, a warm sun, the burbling of your favorite trout stream and cooperative trout to make your soul sing.

The air temperature was 44 degrees when I arrived at O'Fallon at 8:45. As I was starting to gear up, my partner Douglas Borer of  D'Borer Hand-made Bamboo Fly Rods showed up. By the time we were geared up, the sun had come over the mountains and burned off the clouds leaving that Colorado Blue Sky that has to be experienced to understand its beauty.

We started fishing the Head Pool above Bar Pool. Doug had one strike before hanging up in the trees. After wading across the pool to retrieve flies, we moved downstream to try the MiniPool without any luck. Usually this little pool is good for at least one fish but not today. Bar Pool was not any better. I spotted one small brown at the tail of the pool but neither one of us had any strikes in Bar Pool today.

Back to O'Fallon Park at the east end of the park. Doug was working Three Rock Pool while I moved to a run just before a plunge waterfall downstream. This small run is usually good for one or two fish. Today I got a nice 7 inch brown out of the run. The opposite side run was barren of fish today.

Fishing below the plunge pool did not yield any fish either. Guess they did not like my plain gold ribbed hares ear in this area. Back upstream, I saw Doug catch and release a nice 8 – 9 inch fish. (on Bear Creek in this area these are average size fish). Doug was using a small green flashback gray midge he ties. In three rock pool, Doug caught and released 4 fish while I was fishing my way back upstream to him.

Heading back to the main parking lot we fished some of the deeper runs along the road without any luck. Fishing a pool off the main parking lot, I caught this nice 13 inch rainbow.

After lunch, Doug fished Old Dam Hole for a while before heading home.

Then Doug headed home. And I headed downstream to East Corwina Park. On the way out of O'Fallon, I saw one other fly fisherman. That is what I like about this time of year. Solitude, friendship and good weather.

My ususal spots in East Corwina did not yield any fish even though I could see 3 fish working in the main pool. Upstream from the bridge I did catch two small brown trout on the plain hares ear.

Time to beat the rush hour and I headed home.

Summary:
CFS – 18 to 20
Air – 44 degrees at 9 am and 65 at 3:30 pm
Water Clarity - good and clear to 3 feet unless the bottom was covered with weeds. The it turned green
Water Temp – estimated at 55 to 60 degrees in the afternoon.
Hatches: sporadic blue wings during the late morning and early afternoon. One or two large PMDs doomed to failure, a caddis or two
Flies: small gray midge with green flashback size 22, plain gold ribbed hares ear size 16

Tight lines and good fishing,

Marshall, Editor
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A day on the Dream Stream with Master Guide Landon Mayer is like a day in the gym. Landon is a big fish hunter. He prowls the stream like a cheetah running a gazelle to ground. Colorado’s Dream Stream is about 2 1/2 miles between Spinney Mountain Reservoir and Eleven Mile Reservoir. The fish are wild fish and move around a lot depending on stream flows, food supplies, cover and other stream conditions. Landon told me because the fish move so much, you have to move to find them.

Landon believes it is better to sight fish than blind fish. In that I would concur. Landon prowled the opposite bank from where he set my partner Joan McCord and myself in our first beat. Landon stopped indicating he had spotted a large brown holding between two weed beds. He had rigged me with a small baetis emerger top and a trico spinner bottom. I had caught a small rainbow on the trico earlier. I made some 2 to 3 dozen drifts toward the big brown without any success. Finally, the brown did a bulge rise just to give us the fin. Down and Up the stream during the morning without any big success. 

Just before lunch, Landon set Joan up along side a fast run between two rocks. The space was some 10 inches wide but was holding a huge brown. Joan worked this fish under Landon’s guidance for about a half hour. Then Landon went hunting upstream and set me up in a big pool – run with 3 large rocks in it. The pool dropoff held two Dream Stream monsters along with some smaller browns. (Smaller as in 15 to 18 inches).

As I watched Joan, I saw her set the rod on Big Boy. The rod bent deep into the butt section. Joan hollered for Landon but she lost the fish before he arrived at her beat.  So Landon headed downstream looking for fish. About 10 minutes later, Joan hollered for help. She had caught the big guy again. Landon ran up and started giving her instructions to follow the fish downstream. Joanie and Landon disappeared around the bend. Some 15 minutes later, they came back around the bend. I knew Joanie had gotten her big trout to the net by the smile on her face.

During the lunch break I saw the picture and the fish was a Hawg. After lunch, Joan fished the pool – run I was fishing. Landon took me upstream to a run with 2 large rocks in the middle and a fast seam on the far side from me. I tied on an #18 bwo emerger I use on Bear Creek as my tail fly. Working the seam and between the rocks for over 20 minutes, I finally hooked up with a small trout and lost it. Then right in a row hooked up with two larger fish in between the rocks. Both fish pulled upstream with a heavy bend in the rod from the fish and the salad hanging from the line. I lost both fish from horsing too much.

Another 15 drifts, I had a nice fish on during the rise to the surface along with a pound of salad on the line. This was definitely a trout as it headed downstream. Landon was right there telling me how to keep the rod high and to the right of my body while staying even with the fish as it was going downstream. Over and around rocks, through a deep bankside run I followed the fish hoping it would tire soon as my arm was burning.

Finally, it looked like the fish might be ready. I got its head up and on the surface. Landon had his guide net out and was reaching for the fish when it sensed the net. Downstream again for another 100 feet before he was ready again. This time Landon got him into the net. We picked off the remaining weeds before taking some pictures and letting him go. The fish took my #18 bwo emerger.

 This had been a perfect weather day, a perfect fishing day as both Joan and I had hooked a great fish and we were going home just as the weather started to blow a cold wind across the fields.

If you have not been on stream with Landon Mayer, treat your self to a trip with a Master Guide.
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My friend Michael and I fished from the last bridge parking lot south for about a mile. While fishing took work, we did catch fish. Mostly small 6 to 10 inch browns. Almost every riffle held several of these little guys. Tailouts on fast runs same thing. The strange thing was the undercut banks did not yield any fish of size. This does not mean they were not there but enticing them to strike was another subject.

While fishing this lower section, we talked to two guides from The Hatch fly shop in Pine Junction, CO. Both of their groups were catching fish but having to work for them. The first group, the fly of choice was a large size 8 or 10 Amys Ant with a red sparkle body.

 After lunch I fished just below the bridge for awhile without any luck. Fishing under the bridge yielded a nice 12 inch brown. Michael had hooked and lost a nice 12 or 13 inch rainbow just south of the bridge. 

We then moved upstream from the bridge. In the edge of a pool formed by a bank collapse, I hooked up with a nice 13 inch rainbow holding just over the edge of a sandbar. Upstream more small browns in the riffles.

Flies that worked for me. A two nymph rig with a small black mayfly emerger as the tail fly about 18 inches behind the point fly.

 As we were putting our gear away, I talked to another fisherman that had taken 3 nice browns 19 to 22 inches in the morning. So the big guys are still there.

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Marshall, Editor
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The river had been raised from 35 CFS to 77 CFS the day before the trip. The increased water flow should make fishing good. But the weather forecast was not looking too good for the humans. There was a 50% chance of rain or snow all day. However, I was holding for the 50% chance it would not do either. Riding up to Kirks, it looked like the precipitation would win out. But at Kirks, the weather was overcast and holding.

We met our guides Chris and Will at the shop. Then followed them down the canyon to the gearup point. After gearing up, Chris took three of the members and stayed to start fishing this stretch of river. I had fished this stretch many times and wanted to see some new water.

Will obliged by taking us farther down the canyon several more miles. When we stopped, we were at the top of a steep slope to the river. There was a small feeder stream coming on the road side around an island. The main channel was fast, rocky and deep. Standing on the road, we could see more than six trout holding in the small channel. But trying to cast a nine foot rod on a 12 foot wide stream with brush and willows on the other side was going to be a real challange.

After almost falling down the slope, I reached the stream. I was using my Fish Creek Velocity 9 ft 4 wt rigged with three flies Will had tied on. First cast ok. Second cast in the willows. Got it off ok. Four casts later, I lost the tail fly in the bushes. Tying on one of my own, I worked the stream up to the head of the bypass channel. Occasionally, I would see fish that would slide up under the bushes and hide. Not much chance to get to them there.

After fishing upstream for about an hour, Will asked if we wanted to move. I mentioned an area that I had wanted to fish for about 40 years. After describing it, Will knew where it was and he had permission to access the property. We moved to that spot. Will described the ground rules and we crossed over the stream to the private land to fish back toward the road side. In about three casts, Fred had a fish on. James had one on about a minute later. I was fishing without a strike indicator and had missed several hits.

About half and hour later, I put on a 1/2 inch thingamabobber for my indicator. Several casts later I hooked a small 10 inch brown. Meanwhile Fred and James had been busy hooking up with five or more fish. Most were browns in the 10 or 12 inch class which was normal for the Big T.

Moving upsteam, I hooked a nice 12 inch brown on a Rainbow Sow Bug pattern tied by Will. I had missed several on a soft hackle sow bug tail fly before losing it in the road side grasses. Moving farther upsteam, I started drifting through a 3 foot deep run with two big rocks at the end of the run and one at the top. The water fed in between the two rocks. There had to be a couple of nice fish around or under those rocks. Finally I hooked a nice fat 12 or 13 inch brown from in front of the first of the two tail rocks.

Working for fifteen minutes more, I teased a nice fish out from under the large tail rock. I was a little slow on the hook set but could see a nice flash as the fish rolled off. It felt like one in the 14 inch class. About then, Will showed up and it was time to go.

But the weather had held. No rain, no snow and only a little bit of wind. We had all learned more about the insects, flies to use on the Big Thompson during the year, met two great guides and all caught fish. James and Fred had received some excellent help to improve their fly fishing too. A successful trip for all.

Chris and Will were both knowledgeable and attentive to net fish and keep us supplied with flies. If you do book a trip with Kirks, ask for Chris or Will.

If you want to receive excellent fly fishing instruction on the Big Thompson, contact Kirks Fly Shop, 230 Elk Horn Ave, Estes Park, CO 80517 (877) 669-1859 Toll Free. Ask for Gary or Kirk to book a trip. Guides Tight Lines,

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Air temp at 6:30 AM was 60 which got into the low 80′s at Tomahawk. CFS was 62 which should mean some good fishing. I was looking for a day much like our last trip on 7/28/10.

We parked in the last lot at the end of the access road which was particularly rough this year. After gearing up, we followed a trail across the meadow toward the stream. Eventually we arrived at a spot between State land and private land. The stream was open there so we fished it a bit with no luck. Then climbed over the up and over to the public area. Michael and I were both fishing dry flies. I had a yellow foam hopper on a 5x tippet. The water was clear and the runs against most bank areas were 2 to 3 feet deep. Plenty deep enough to hide a 20+ inch brown or several smaller fish.

My dry fly casts using short 1 foot double hauls were dropping against the bank edge and bouncing into the water or just off the bank. Today was an on day for my casting. A good day just to cast even if the fish did not co-operate. Michael worked a couple of bends out in front of me. Then I followed working the same water with a different fly. I changed to a greenish body fly that I thought was a bit flashy. Still no hits.

Catching up with Michael at a good pool, he was working two fish. One of which appeared to be about 14 inches. The fish were working the water column in the middle almost exclusively. Obviously insect activity was going on even though nothing was happening on the surface.

Leaving Michael to work his fish, I waded across below him to work the next pool and run at the tail out. This was an interesting area. The feedin created a small pool with foam and backwater against the far bank, a large slow pool with back water in front of me and a middle run feeding into a deeper bank run.

 My dry fly finally raised one small 6 inch fish that snapped at the fly. Then nothing. So I switched to a plain gold ribbed hares ear #16 on top and a small #20 gray RSII on the bottom. After many drifts thru the feedin along the foam line, I coaxed a 10 inch brown to the hook. The deeper run along the tail out yielded nothing. Following the stream for another couple of bends, I found another deep bank run with a good tail pool. This one had a couple of visible fish. I got some follows on my nymphs but no takers.

Back upstream, I found Michael still working his fish. He had changed to a dry dropper combination. With the last rig, the bigger brown hit the dry fly hard. When the fish headed for cover, Michael’s leader and rig parted company. Rigging up again, Michael started working the remaining visible brown. Finally this brown did take the fly and we got it to the net. It was a nice fate 13 or 14 inch brown. Then lunch time.

After lunch, we went over the up and over on the west side of the Highway 9 bridge to the west side of Tomahawk. The section from the fence to the first couple of bends is often productive. Especially so when the water is at 60 to 80 CFS. Michael worked the first pool and I went to the bend pool upstream. Picked up a couple of nice 10 to 12 inch browns. Then an excellent cutbow with a great red slash on the gill plate in the next bank run upstream. This run was a good 3 to 4 feet deep and half the stream wide. Coaxed the cutbow from under the bank. Michael was upstream and caught a couple of nice bows.

Time to head toward the car. But I wanted to try the small runs under the bridge. These two small runs about 1 foot deep gave up a 13 inch brown and an 8 inch brown. All in all a good day. Lots of exercise, good fresh air and sunshine.

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I headed for the Big Thompson below the lake. Before fishing I stopped at Kirk’s fly shop to pick up a river map and talk to Gary for some river info. Highly suggest you get a map of the lower river. It contains some good information about the area and for five dollars, you can afford it.

I started in the water upstream from old public service company property. After an hour with only 1 – dink, I headed back upstream to Caddis Flats. (This is why you need a map). There were a ton of flat landers there. One younger gentleman throwing metal had caught a couple of 12 inch fish. I headed upstream. I was rigged up with a No. 16 plain goldribbed hares ear on top and a small 18 or 20 gray RSII on bottom. Had absolutly no strikes at Caddis Flats even though I worked the stream hard for a good quarter mile upstream. Varied the weight until I was on the bottom, in the middle of the water column and barely under the surface. Nothing.

Upstream at No Name Parking Lot, I carefully climbed down the rocks to the stream. At 124 there are a few wadable areas here. Fishing one small hole behind a rock in a fast run, I had a fish hit three times in a row before stopping. Another dozen drifts and he was on. The current was about 3 to 4 feet deep in the hole and this was a reasonable fish. Finally got him to the surface to see a nice fat 14 inch rainbow. But to the net was not to be. Along the river across from No Name, I hooked 1-nine inch bow, 1-8inch brown, 1-12 inch brown besides the bow I had lost upstream.

Upstream, below Green Bridge, I hooked a fat healthy 12 inch brown below the little waterfall across from private property. Getting down to release the fish, I slipped on wet grass and sat down hard on a flat rock. Fortunately, only hurt my pride and bent my wading staff a bit. Could have been worse. Did not get any more fish after that brown. This was again on a plain goldribbed hares ear.

This is a simple fly to tie and works well. I tie it sizes 16 and 18 mostly.

1. Hook – Dai-Riki #60 hooks or TMC equivalent. Mash Barbs down flat
2. Thread – Black
3. Ribbing – Ultra Small or Lagartun X-Fine gold wire about a 6 inch piece will do a half dozen flies
4. Tail – Several fibers from a dark brownish mottled hen cape feather or a small clump of hare from a rabbit skin or hares mask
5. Abdomen – Hares Ear dubbing with guard hairs preferably
6. Thorax – Hares Ear dubbing with guard hairs
7. Wing case – Cinnamon brown turkey slip from a tail feather or a off white with mottled dark spots

• Tie on one hook eye width back from the hook eye
• Wrap a smooth thread base to 90% point on the hook. This is about two hook eye widths from the hook bend
• Tie in your wire ribbing with two turns of thread and wrap to the hook bend
• Tie in the tail material with two turns of thread
• Dub a small tapered abdomen with the big part of the abdomen toward the hook eye
• Counterwrap the wire rib forward and tie off with two turns of thread. Clip the excess wire from the fly.
• Tie in the wing case with two turns of thread and leave it standing upright
• Dub a small neat thorax just in front of the wing case
• Pull the wing case over the middle of the thorax and tie off with two to five turns of thread.
• Whip finish a three turn head or use three half hitches
• Use a dubbing brush or your bodkin to pick out guard hairs along the sides of the thorax for legs and to impart motion in the water

Go fishing with it.

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We headed to O’Fallon park outside of Kitteridge. Water there was a bit more clear than in Evergreen but not much. A couple of hours yielded no fish for me and several small ones for Brett. I switched to a plain goldribbed hares ear for a dropper fly. In old Dam hole, I took 1 bow and 1 brown on the plain GR Hares Ear. Both were about 10 inches.

My last place to fish was just upstream of the first parking lot. There is a nice run along the road side of the stream. I hooked up with one 10 inch brown and a bit later a nice 13 inch brown. This one I got almost to where I could release him when he did it for me.

Brett had caught about six or eight more fish all on a small wet fly with a yellow body and a brown partridge hackle. I decided it might look like a pmd or a yellow sally to a fish but it seemed a bit late in the season for those. In any case, the fish liked it. This was a very simple pattern to tie and it proved wet flies as a dropper still worked.

By now it was about 3 PM and time to go. As I remember, the wet fly had a few brown partridge hackles for a tail, a yellow dubbed body with a 1 1/2 or 2 turn wrap of brown Hungarian Partridge hackle at the head. Black thread I think. Size eighteen straight shank hook. A Dai-Riki 60 would work ok for this fly.

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The flow was 56 CFS, the water gin clear and the bugs were cooperating. A large part of the South Platte thru Tomahawk is excellent caddis water. Tan and Black caddis both hatch but spotten Tan is predominant. John Barr’s graphic caddis emerger tied Charlie Craven style or John’s orginal style both work well trailed behind a larger fly. A dropper graphic caddis under an Elk Hair Caddis dry fly can also work well.

My friend Michael set up with a #16 Elk Hair Brownish Caddis dry and a #16 Graphic Caddis emerger. I used my hand tied fluorocarbon nymph leader down to 3X with a #10 Pat’s Rubber Legs then dropped to 24 in of 5X with a #16 Graphic Caddis. These are the setups we used most of the day.

We started fishing the large pool south of the last bridge after the green gate. Michael was at the tail of the pool. He made two casts and had a fish on the dry fly. I moved to the head of the pool to drop casts in the fast run feeding the pool. After figuring out how to get mends that would feed the rig past the back swirl area, I got several dead drifts along the bank. The third drift hooked up with a nice 12 fiesty rainbow on the swing out. I got him into the net. This fish had been tagged. It was the first time I have ever caught a tagged fish.

We fished this pool for about an hour hooking up with about 20 fish between us. Then we moved to the area just downstream of the fence below the bridge. I cast into the run feeding this pool and immediately had a fish on but lost him. This run yielded 5 rainbows for me and some 4 for Michael. Then we moved upstream above the bridge. Michael fished a large run / pool just upstream from the bridge. I moved to a rock with a pool behind it. This pool gave up 5 fish and Michael hooked up with some 8 or 9 fish on the swing downstream from me.

Just before breaking for lunch, I downstream drifted my rig three or four times under the bridge. On the last drift a nice 15 in brown hit one of the flies hard and exploded up into the air. At the top of the jump, he rolled off but it was a nice fish. After lunch, we worked upstream for about a half mile from the bridge hooking fish about every where we tried.

By this time it was about 4 oclock and Michael wanted to go but I talked him into 30 more minutes for me on the west side of highway 9. In those 30 minutes, I hooked and landed 12 fish. Nine bows and 3 browns. After changing to a #18 Barr’s graphic caddis, the action was even better than on the #16. If you are heading to Tomahawk in the next couple of weeks, try a #18 or #20 graphic caddis and a #18 caddis dry fly.

Total for the day was Michael 24 to 26 fish (mostly rainbows) on dry flies and for myself 35 to 38 fish (again mostly rainbows with a few browns) on nymphs using my hand tied nymph leader.

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Conditions were about perfect for Colorado Fly Fishing today. The sky at 8:45 am was that Colorado Blue with a few high clouds. Temperature was 50 degrees with a forecast into the high 60s and not much wind at Evergreen, CO until 4 pm.

Water Flow on Bear Creek was 65 to 70 CFS which should mean the water was clearing from the 90+ CFS flows of last week. On the way up C-76 Canyon to Kitteridge, the Creek was looking pretty good. 

After reaching my parking lot, I geared up with my 9 ft 5 wt Orvis Clearwater II rod. There was an old leader on the reel and I was too lazy to change it out. My three nymph rig was a #14 beadhead prince top, a small Walt Mueller orange soft milking vinyl egg middle and a #18 black pheasant tail nymph bottom. The leader was 4X, 5X and 6X respectively for a total leader length of about 10 feet.

I fished the runs feeding into the Head Pool and the Head Pool for about 40 minutes without a strike. Then headed downstream to the Bar Pool where I saw my friend Tim. He and I shared the pool for an hour with Tim hooking one 12 inch fat little rainbow and missing several more fish. He was using a stimulator and a small barrs emerger on the dropper. Tim had taken 8 fish from a pool farther downstream. After Tim left, I fished the pool for another 30 minutes before heading to the Episcopal Church in Evergreen.

After lunch, I built a new leader based on what I had seen in a Czech Nymphing DVD but modified for small streams. One 5ft piece of 1X flurocarbon, a 3ft piece of 2X flurocarbon+a fly, an 18 inch piece of 4X flurocarbon off the hook bend + a fly and a 15 to 18 inch piece of flurocarbon + the tail fly. Flies used were a #14 Beadhead Prince, a small orange soft milking egg middle and an 18 black pheasant tail as a tail fly.

The advantages to this rig are it sinks fast because the flurocarbon is denser than water plus the beadhead and the egg on top of the rig. But is is like trying to cast a piece of cooked spaghetti. The river cast works ok with this setup or a lob cast. You are not going to go for distance but for accuracy. And in short line nymphing, most of the leader is off the water anyway.

I was working my way downstream from the Church parking lot east. In a small pool behind a rock, I started working the far seam. First cast with this rig, I hookedup with a small 8 inch rainbow but lost him. This rig definitely got to the bottom fast. Continuing on downstream, I hookedup with a few more small fish about 6 to 8 inches. But the fishing conditions were challanging with fast water seams only 10 to 18 inches deep in many places.

At the east end of the Church property, I started fishing a deep run and hooked several 8 and 10 inch browns on the bh prince nymph. (interesting they would eat a nymph on 2X tippet with flies tied to the hook bend and in pretty clear water). Working my way back toward the parking lot, I continued to hook up with an occasional fish. On the way, I lost my tail fly and replaced it with a #16 gray RS2 with a long white antron wing. (wing about abdomen length). I also picked up a couple of fish on this fly and on the egg along the way toward the parking lot.

Around the bend west of the Church are two bridges over the creek. Between the bridges are a deep pool with a nice tailout. I picked up a couple of small 6 inch browns out of the tailout on the prince. In the pool below the town bridge, I picked up several more 10 inch browns. Farther upstream, I hooked a scrappy 10 or 11 inch brown. Then hung my rig on a stick and I had to break off the bottom two flies. The wind had started to come up and temperature was dropping. Time to go home.

Summary:
Water Clarity clearing but slightly murky. Visibility to about 18 inches to 2 feet.

Almost all the bigger fish (those in the 10 inch class took the top fly in the 3 nymph rig. A #14 beadhead prince tied to 2X material. This was even with a piece of tippet and two more flies tied to the hook bend.)

My tests of the new nymphing leader set up were conclusive for me. For Czech or short line nymphing it should work well.

A total of 16 fish which made the day fun.

Excellent weather with lots of sun and only a few high clouds.

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