Arkansas River Sept 13

The ark-ans-ass river (yeah I know its really ark-en-saw, but thats like saying yosemite is pronounced yoh-sem-it-ee, rather than yos-eh-mite, which is think is much better... ?!). Anyway - fast flowing river, but I found a nice stretch with a wide slower area with sunken boulders. As soon as the shade of the canyon started coming on to the water, around 4pm, I got 3 browns in succession.
See the map on the photo album link.

Deckers fishing Sept 7

First stop "flys n lies" - their suggestion was a black RS2 so small quite honestly I had problems seeing it.
Anyway - with hopper and the RS2 as a dropper we indeed caught a couple.
Bill swears a 6lb rainbow destroyed his rod - I was unable to catch the evidence as i was struggling to stay afloat having slipped and was currently bailing out the waders!

Poudre River Canyon Camping August 30 2008

Camping at Mountain Park Campground has got to be one of the best so far!
18 Rainbow and Brooke trout has to be a record.
I must admit I felt the competition keenly as Daniel and Trey were fishing with worms and pilling them out regularly. I think they got 4 or 5 in a 2 hour period!

Best fly was a wasp stimulator - incredible on Saturday afternoon - I was getting a strike every 3rd cast. In the end the fish destroyed the two I had so I moved to other large simulators with a similar effect!

Click here to see more photos and the map of where we were!'

You're from Colorado If..

• You'll eat ice cream in the winter.
• When the weather report says it's going to be 65 degrees, you shave your legs and wear a skirt.
• It snows 5 inches and you don't expect school to be canceled.
• You'll wear flip flops every day of the year, regardless of temperature.
• You have no accent at all, but can hear other people's. And then you make fun of them.
• 'Humid' is over 25%.
• Your sense of direction is: Toward the mountains and Away from the mountains.
• You say 'the interstate' and everybody knows which one.
• You think that May is a totally normal month for a blizzard .
• You know what the Continental Divide is.
• You don't think Coors beer is that big a deal.
• You went to Casa Bonita as a kid, and as an adult.
• You've gone off-roading in a vehicle that was never intended for such activities.
• You always know the elevation of where you are.
• You wake up to a beautiful, 80 degree day and you wonder if it's going to snow.
• You actually know that ** South Park ** is a real place not just a show on TV.
• You know what a 'trust fund hippy' is, and you know its natural habitat is Boulder .
• You know you're talking to a fellow Coloradoan when they call it Elitches, not Six Flags.
• A bear on your front porch doesn't bother you.
• You go anywhere else on the planet and the air feels 'sticky' and you notice the sky is no longer blue
• And. . When people out East tell you they have mountains in their state too, you just laugh.