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 Denver Colorado: High Country Cutthroats
Posted by fishyjoe on August 19, 2006
Well, all went as planned. We left the metropolis of Denver headed North West to a undisclosed camping site High in the Rockies. After finding a camp site early, and part taking in the drink we were headed to the tent by about 9:00 pm. Colorado in the high country can get a little chilly in august (at least when you've been in the desert of Denver for a while). Early Saturday morning myself, Josh, Sara and the dog (Bella) packed up camp and left in quite a hurry, bound to not waste the beautiful day. After driving for about 2 hours (including a few minutes fishing close off the side of the road) we had reached our destination, a high country resort that was being fished heavily by tourists. After thinking to myself that I was the only fly fisherman in our vehicle I decided to leave my friends for a few minutes and go explore the inlet. After fly fishing about a 1/4 mile stretch of this small high mountain stream with no hookups, I was beginning to think about calling it skunked. And then it happened. My first hit of the day on a hopper. The fish took my hopper and my dropper. I love to myself, “Damn, that should have been mine." I continued my search up stream for rising or feeding fish. I came to a riffle flowing out of a plunge pool with a few rising fish. After tying-on a Para Adams and getting in stuck on the branches
right above the rising fish, on the first cast! I thought it was hopeless, but I was not really ready to give up. So I tied on a yellow sally, gave it a good cast, I saw the rise, set the hook and zzzziiiiinggg! 20 yards of line was off my reel. I had to run down stream so not to lose the fish in the brush. After working the fish back to my net, which took about 8-10 minutes I realized I had scored Big! It was an 18- 20" inch Greenback Cutthroat Trout in about 12" of water. I caught 2 more Greenbacks that day, all Bigger than 12 inches. Wow what a day! After finding my friends and telling them what had just happened they told me of a moose in the woods right above where I was fly fishing. I would have never known it was there if not for my friends. It was a pretty big moose with 2 calves. What a sweet state Colorado is when you can get away from the tourists. Sequoia.
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Re: Denver Colorado: High Country Cutthroats
by jeremy on August 19, 2006 http://www.ineedasimplesolution.com | | great fish-tale ... sounds like you chose to forgoe the heavily beaten path and find your own little piece of colorado ... and .. it paid off ... that always seams to lead to a well-rounded sense of satisfaction. i am sure you will remember those few hours of fly fishing for a long time .. if not your whole life ... |
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Re: Denver Colorado: High Country Cutthroats
by waterwhippa on August 19, 2006 http://salmonriverspecialists.com | | Glad to see you were able to find some solitude away from the tourists. Nice work! |
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