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Colorado
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07/06/19 03:47 AM
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Sniper John
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As I continue my post retirement fun. I went on a fly fishing run to Colorado last month with a couple family members. Lots of snow in the mountains. If we had gone a week earlier we would not have been able to access our forest service cabin. The main destination was a hike into Black Canyon of the Gunnison, but the timing was messed up due to a late snow fall in Colorado this year. Dash was unable to go because Dogs are not allowed in the Canyon. After visiting the Gunnison river below we fished Taylor for a bit we decided to move the hike to the end of the trip to let the water level come down on the Gunnison. When we first arrived the reports were that the water was up over the camping spots on the river and into the trees. Unfishable. The Taylor was up, off color and difficult to fish. The streams at the Guard Station near Jackson Reservoir where we stayed were way up and muddy as well. We hiked up to one high mountain reservoir and found it was a bad choice as it was way down for some reason and had no trout in it. To make matters worse we were unable to find it the first day and had to make a second try to find it. It turned out to be a neat experience anyway. It was full of White Suckers. We figured out how to catch them on fly rods using "San Yuan Worm" flys under a strike indicator. It was a first for me and would have been another check box if I had a fishing species life list. Those suckers fought as hard or better than trout of the same size. Unfortunately I ran my phone battery down before we caught fish because of using the GPS on it to find our lake so I did not get a picture of the suckers. I went minimalist on this trip and did not take a camera. The second high mountain lake we hiked to in the Uncompadre was closer and much better with Cutthroats and Brooks both in excess of 17 inches caught. We did not see another person the day we spent there. I told my Nephew Ryan he was trolling for Bears. Not a minute later we came up on a Bear in the trail in front of us. Fortunately it ran away. Made for some good eating too.
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Re: Colorado
[Re: Sniper John]
#7549706
07/06/19 03:51 AM
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Bee'z
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That is awesome John. I hate to see the water was high and the fishing was not great. None the less great pics of some beautiful country.
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Re: Colorado
[Re: Bee'z]
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07/06/19 04:06 AM
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Sniper John
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That is awesome John. I hate to see the water was high and the fishing was not great. None the less great pics of some beautiful country. Once we adapted to the conditions, we actually experienced some great fishing. There were one to two hour time periods in the Canyon when there were surges in the water level probably because of the several rain showers we had while in the canyon. I was catching trout in the 15 to 20 inch range every 10 minutes or less during those surges. I missed strikes on many more due to not being able to see the fish. All I can figure is the current was knocking some of those stoneflys off the rocks during those moments. And I guess because of the rain, we had no other campers or people fishing our chosen section of river. We had over a mile of river all to ourselves.
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Re: Colorado
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07/06/19 10:22 AM
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What a great trip, that had to be so frickin nice to be out in Gods country like that! Great pictures and thanks for sharing y'alls adventure
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Re: Colorado
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07/06/19 11:51 AM
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Re: Colorado
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07/06/19 11:58 AM
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...and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Gen. 1:28
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Re: Colorado
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07/06/19 12:11 PM
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Awesome trip! That's the time of year to be in Colorado for fishing.
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Re: Colorado
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07/06/19 01:41 PM
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always an adventure with you,
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Re: Colorado
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07/06/19 06:11 PM
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Great trip and recap.
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Re: Colorado
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07/06/19 06:35 PM
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always an adventure with you, Yes it is! And this was another AWESOME one! I would love to do that and not be on any schedule, or having to rush for any reason. I wonder if you are allowed to use a metal detector around the stagecoach line? That would be cool. Heck,, just the scenery would do me just fine.
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Re: Colorado
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07/06/19 08:15 PM
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NORML as can be
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Bravo!
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Re: Colorado
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07/06/19 10:47 PM
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Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back. _____________"Illegitimus non carborundum est"_______________
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Re: Colorado
[Re: Sniper John]
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07/07/19 04:02 AM
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John, it appears my ways to adapt are seriously lacking That is good numbers Sir. Hell, the water we fish rarely produces over 12" but have multiple species. That is awesome Sir.
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Re: Colorado
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07/07/19 04:23 AM
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Great pics and recap, can't wait to get up that way in mid-September
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Re: Colorado
[Re: Sniper John]
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07/07/19 04:48 AM
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Great Pictures! Can we retire with you?
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Re: Colorado
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07/08/19 07:37 PM
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Re: Colorado
[Re: Sniper John]
#7552551
07/09/19 10:15 PM
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Looks like you had a great time. I was just up there on the lake fork of the gunnesion. We have a place south of blue Mesa lake. Really want to get back up there and check out the canyon. Rivers were wild when I was up there with all the sno melt so we didn’t really try fishing too much but I did hear the fishing has been great on Taylor.
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