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Colorado 2007 Video

Last year was a new beginning for me. I packed up my truck and made my way from Maine to Colorado in search of something different. It was bitter sweet leaving the place where you have grown and to watch your friends and family wave goodbye, but I figured that Maine will always be there and a plane ticket is generally in my budget. After a grueling 32 hour drive and a minor detour to Wyoming I started to settle in to my new surroundings. I learned new terms like pre-runoff, runoff, juju baetis, pow pow (powder) and more of the like. I didn’t have any friends so I spent most of my time on the river in search of trout and in fly shops meeting fisherman. As time progressed I made friends, bought a raft, which thus far is the best purchase I have ever made, and did little trips around the state fishing different water. One day I heard that the green drake hatch was going off on the Taylor River about 3 hours south of me. I had just finished work, my girl was out of town and I have never seen anything like it. I packed my truck and spent 3 days down there in a little shack tying mice patterns (for night) and casting size 12 drakes to giant tail water trout. From there I would drive over to the South Platte and fish the Dream Stream for more of the same. I guess you could call me a tail water junky, and that would pretty much sum it up. But, when there is the potential to catch a 10lb fish can you blame me? Most of my days off were spent of the Yampa River about

an hour north of me. The Yampa is not a big river but it is gin clear and holds some of the brightest Rainbow Trout ever. Nestled in a small canyon you can fish midges (dry or wet), scuds, sculpins and woolly buggers. All do well, and it feels good to chuck a big streamer at them after exhausting your midge box. I always had my camera (s) with me and had intended doing a video many times through out the year but, since I fished alone setting up the right angles and getting good shots cut into my fishing time. I ended up with a pile of content sitting on my hard drive collecting dust when I decided to go through it and see what I forgot. The video closely sums up my first summer and fall out here in the Wild West. Hopefully 2008 is as generous.