Fly Fishing Colorado

Last year I wrote three posts on invasive species and one on the use of felt vs aquastealth soles to control invasive species spread. New Zealand banned use of felt soles last year to control didymo spread. All major fly fishing tackle manufacturers have agreed to stop using felt by 2011. In 2009 Simms came [...]

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8/25 Invasive Species Control is a difficult issue because of the wide diversity of species involved.  Some advocate use of chemicals for controlling invasive species.  Others advocate non-chemical means to control these invasive hitchikers. In Colorado signs warning about New Zealand Mud Snail infection in a stream or lake also maintain a 50% solution of [...]

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11/3 Ed Dentry of the Rocky Mountain News always has something meaty in his sports column.  On 11/1/07, he talked about who the real anti hunters were.  And it wasn’t PETA or the people who wanted to take your rifle away.  It was organizations like the Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States, a drillers trade [...]

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11/1 The release of the new Helios Fly Rod series from Orvis was announced last week. New manufacturing technology makes these the lightest fly rods made.  Twenty five percent lighter than the Orvis Zero Gravity rods.  These are limited edition models for 2007.  Take a look at the future of Orvis Fly Rods. Sphere: Related Content [...]

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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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