The latest video from the “Find Your Water” series follows anglers Ben Kraushaar and Anna Ortega on a trek into Colorado’s San Juan Mountains to fish some high-country lakes for stunning . . .
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Top 10 Flies for Fall on Colorado Freestone Rivers
Bob Streb with a fine fall brown trout.
Photo courtesy Bob Streb
As the weather and water start to cool down in fall, a trout’s metabolism starts to heat up. While Colorado is perhaps best known for its world-class tailwaters, I am surrounded by. . .
Read MorePhotos: A Multi-Species Trip into the Colorado High Country
The payoff for long, hard hikes into the rockies can be glorious, colorful cutthroats.
All photos courtesy Jon Hill
Last week, we made a four-day trip into the Rocky Mountains and did quite a bit of hiking and fishing. Tom, Shawn, Carper, and I hiked and bushwhacked into multiple lakes in a section. . .
Read MorePhotos: Fighting the wind at 12,400 Feet in the Rockies
Written by: Jon Hill
The casting was difficult, but it was worth fighting the wind to catch these stunning cutthroats.
Photos courtesy Jon Hill
Another hike into the high country with some buddies yielded some amazing-looking cutthroats! There’s usually some wind to deal with when hiking and fishing at high altitudes, but this time. . .
Read MoreVideo: Salmon Fly Hatch #iPhoneOnly
Daily Rise Productions is the brainchild of Josh Diller, a Pennsylvanian transplanted to Colorado, and his latest video is the result of an ingenious group project that makes use of some. . .
Read MorePhotos: Beating the Heat in High Rockies Lakes
Written by: Jon Hill
Cutthroats in mountain lakes are mighty hungry in the early season.
Photos courtesy Jon Hill
Here in Colorado, runoff is in full effect, and the rivers are running high. Temperatures in Denver are also running high, in the upper 90s. No better way to get away from both than to hike to. . .
Read MoreVideo:The Stimi Hatch—Small Stream Fly Fishing
Ivan Orsic from Yukon Goes Fishing is back with a fun little film about casting Stimulators while fishing a tiny backcountry stream for wild brown trout. Here’s his description of the scene: . . .
Read MorePhotos: Bringing Fly-Fishing to the People
Written by: Jon Easdon, Angler’s Covey
Almost 100 people caught the fly-fishing bug in Colorado springs on Saturday.
Photos courtesy Angler’s Covey
We have been working with other agencies locally to help get folks outside. This idea spawned the city’s first Get Outdoors Day Colorado Springs. It was held at Prospect Lake here in town and. . .
Read MoreTop 10 Flies for Mountain Stream-and-Pond Systems
Written by: Mark Weaver, The High Lonesome Ranch
Fish in spring-fed mountain ponds can be both spooky and picky, so fly choice is important.Photo courtesy The High Lonesome Ranch
Our fishery here at The High Lonesome Ranch starts at 7,200 feet in the Western Colorado Rockies and works its way down the North Dry Fork Valley into a series of spring-fed beaver. . .
Read MoreVideo: Our Playground – 2016, Vol. 1
Here’s the latest episode of the Our Playground video series from former Trout Bum of the Week Jon Hill. Of this latest video, Jon says, “We were lucky enough to release a lot of. . .
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