| With fly fishing, sometimes it is all about the chase. | | | | came out of my mouth far too many times than I |
| Here's a day trip that looked unfruitful, but turned | | | | care to recall. |
| out alright in the end. | | | | About 3 miles into our float, which is exactly what it |
| Colorado Fly Fishing | | | | had become, a sightseeing float, the weather began |
| We put the raft in on a warm morning in Sept. | | | | to change. Here came the clouds, an encouraging |
| without a cloud in sight. My expectations were not | | | | sign, of course unless the wind comes with it. Here |
| high, since a warm sunny day tends to put the fish | | | | came the wind, and next thing you know, our |
| down, at least on this stretch of the Colorado. When | | | | beautiful sightseeing float turned into a back rowing |
| the fish aren't rising, I go straight for tandem | | | | battle to keep the boat heading downstream. Luckily, |
| streamers; there is nothing more exciting than a big | | | | this did not last long, but the rain did begin to fall. |
| pissed off brown chasing your streamer off the bank | | | | Within a few minuets after the rain subsided, the |
| in shallow fast moving water. Dredging the bottom | | | | mayflies were swarming and the fish were rising. |
| with a nymph just doesn't do it for me. If I break | | | | Were eddied out in several prime spots and began to |
| out a nymph'n rig, I must have exhausted all other | | | | catch fish in the swirling foam. Just about any |
| options. | | | | well-placed cast was rewarded. Time went by |
| The first quarter mile of water put a bleak outlook | | | | unnoticed, until suddenly I realize that we had only |
| on the remaining 9 house of river ahead of us, not a | | | | traveled half way to our take out and more than half |
| single chase through some of the higher quality water | | | | of the day was gone. Pushing through the slack |
| on this stretch!! My invited guest on board had no | | | | water and hammering the moving water with the |
| experience throwing a heavy awkward tandem | | | | streamers was now becoming very productive. |
| streamer rig, and was fairly discouraged after nearly | | | | Finally, I could prove to my guest how exciting the |
| throwing his shoulder out with only a handful of | | | | chase could be. It seems that every other cast |
| well-placed casts. I always talk of the exciting chases, | | | | produced an aggressive brown, either territorial or |
| but now; he must think I am full of it. I now know | | | | just plain hungry. |
| the frustration that guides must endure while | | | | We landed several nice fish while powering through |
| watching miles of quality water go by without a singe | | | | the final stretch, arriving at last light. A turn in the |
| well placed or completely untouched. "There was | | | | weather sure can turn on the fish and bring on the |
| probably a nice fish it that pocket we just passed", | | | | chase. |