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There are some great comments above, but Justin is correct. Moving water is WAAAAAYYYY different than rowing on a lake. You really need to have some one who has some experience in the boat with you teacing you how to row. It may look easy especially if there is an experienced rower behind the oars, but it doesn't take much to get turned sideways pinned against a rock, bridge, or tree in the middle of the river and get flipped over, more than likely losing all your gear, your boat, or life.

If you are tying your own soft hackles, try using hooks with a wider gap. Hooks with larger gaps will increase your hook ups. Try the TMC 113BLH (they go down to size 20), TMC 226BL, TMC 3769. etc. Try to keep all excess line on the reel. If i am swinging them down and across, I will hold about a 5 or 6 in loop of fly line between my fingers and the reel. Keep the tip of the rod pointed directly at your fly. (too much excess slack in the system decreases your reaction time and you will often end up missing strikes.) When you feel a strike, let go of the loop and lift the rod. You will be surprised at the increase in solid hook ups you will get. Also, when swinging any flies, use the heaviest tippet you can get away with. Usually strikes are pretty violent and you will break off too many fish if you are trying to swing with 6 or 7x. I would recommend going with at least 5. I hope this info helps.

If money is not an option then I would go with a Renzetti Master. However, I have both a Renzetti Traveler and a Presentation 4000. The cam on the traveler isn't as smooth as on the presentation, but either are an upgrade from the spider.

Yep, That's a wild fish. Definitely not stocked.

Trophyfishr, I live just of Golden and I fish Clear Creek every chance I get. I'd be happy to show you around. You don't want to fish it in town at all and winter is not a very good option to fish the tiny freestoners because most of them are completely frozen over. When things start to thaw out, it will be much better. Also, stay away from the shops in Golden. Charlies Fly box is not very far away in Arvada and is a much better resource for the area.

I like the look of they fly. The reason the fly is like a tornado in the water is because of the way you hackled the fly. By tying the hackle in by the butt at the back of the fly, the hackle will have a Christmas tree shape (longest at the bottom near the tail of the fly, and shortest near the top near the eye. Generally flies are palmered the other direction ( tyiing the tip in first so the shortest hackles are near the tail and longest near the eye). I do however like the pheasant for the tail. Nice tye.

I completely agree Rick. Spawning may happen with the browns that are already in the lake, but it is largely unsuccessful due to many obvious factors. I'm not sure how smallmouth and panfish will take out a stocker sized brown trout, but to each his own.

it is a Chub. Males only have tubercles during the spawn.

Use less laser dub on the top of the fly. If you use too much material on the top oart of the fly, it will cause it to roll. You only need a little bit of laser dub to build a great profile. Use the B10S or a Tiemco 8089 and that will help as well.

That's an ambitious float.....

Its a hybrid bluegill. Could be bluegill x longear or bluegill x green sunfish.

Stagecoach also has HUGE Pike!

MarkinKC----The Yampa runs right through town in steamboat. There is also the elk which runs north of town and enters the yampa just east of steamboat. Both are great fishing. However, runoff just started out here this week and with all the snow we still have (and are still getting), rivers will most likely be high still and possibly off color. Check in with the guys at steamboat fly fisher and the can give you up to the minute info. If you have any other questions, let me know! http://www.steamboatflyfisher.com/

id also start by getting this book.......... http://www.amazon.com/Fly-Fishing-Southern-Colorado-Anglers/dp/0871089467/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1400725643&sr=1-1&keywords=fly+fishing+southern+colorado

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You need to take a better picture of the first insect. it could be a number of things, but it is definitely not a stone fly.

Justin is correct. It is a striped shiner.

$2.00 for a chip vs. $0.00 for clipping. Clipping is much less expensive. its FREE.

Simple Solution? Micro chipping is expensive. Putting a tag in their back works, but the tags can and are taken out by fisherman making it difficult to tell if the fish was tagged in the first place during mark/recapture studies. Clipping the fin is a quick and easy way to identify them when MDC does shocking surveys. Micro chipping fish requires more equipment and time when they are on the boat as you would have to scan every fish that comes into the boat. It is much easier to have visual cues.

The pot hole is directly below the dam.

Taney will ALWAYS beat the San Juan at shuffling. At least there it is illegal and people do get ticketed for it. No fishing within 10 feet directly down stream of your position.

Definitely Duane. They have me tying every session from Thursday afternoon to Saturday afternoon! It would be great to see any of my friends from back home down there.

Ill be tying everyday.

I fish the Frying pan about every other weekend. there is Plenty of fishable water there and it is all wadable. If you want to avoid people on the pan, AVOID the upper 2 miles (from the dam down) that is where most everyone concentrates. There are multiple pullouts along the way as well. There is private water mixed in with public so watch out, but it is VERY well marked. Dont listen to the reports of having to use 6x &7x I never use anything less than 5x there and average 50-100 fish days. The most I have caught was in a Team USA tournament last year and set the record for most caught in 3 hours at 55 fish landed and measured. There are some BIG fish in there but most of the browns (which are all wild) average about 12-14 inches. PM me if you want more details. I would be glad to help you out.

There is not much public water on the Taylor. There is just of 1/4 a mile of public water directly below the dam. the closer you get to Almont the more public water there is, but it is still not much. Since there are extremely large fish below the dam, it can be quite crowded especially during the summer time.