Fly Fishing Colorado

The day started out wearing a beautiful blue sunny sky in Denver at 6:20 AM as I headed to pick up my friend Michael for our second trip to the Tomahawk Wildlife Area. This site is one of my favorite to fish. Generally a reasonable population of fish, good scenery, a challenging stream and this time of year [...]

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August 13th, the day after my birthday and two days from being handed a diagnosis of squamous cell skin cancer on my right shoulder. Definitely time to go fishing. Weather was beautiful all day today. Temperatures in the low eighties most of the day. Sky was clear all day. Definitely a fishing day. The Big T had been [...]

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Bear Creek had risen to 65 CFS from recent rains and the water was off color coffee again. My friend Brett and I started at the Episcopal Church property at Evergreen. I was using my usual Gold Beadhead, goldribbed hares ear with a dropper and Brett started dry fly fishing. After and hour I had [...]

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As we headed up 285 by Morrison, the clouds hung on the foothills and mountains like a child holding its mother’s hand. Great I thought fishing in the rain most of the day. But by the time we had reached the Tomahawk Wildlife Area, sunscreened, insect repelled and geared up, the day had turned partly cloudy. [...]

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5/3/10 Monday 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 [...]

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