Whew!~!

[Zach Bearden]

I honestly don't know where all that water has come from. I know that it is extremely too hot to stock. But from my understandings they should be stocking sometime in November or something to that effect.

I'm still not able to fish for stripers or anything, I have been stacked up to the brim with all the band stuff. I've just been kinda hanging around waiting for the cooler weather and some trout so that I can have fun with Polish Nymphing again. I went up to CO. and saw all those guys using different techniques and I really would love to try them!

Oh well, at least for Fall break I get to go up to MO. and fish that one last time before I turn 16 and have to pay for all that gunk.

[DavidF.]

I'm also waiting for better conditions. One of my buddies lives less than 1 mile from river and has only caught stripers and catfish lately.

Zach ---I bet you had a blast in CO. Where at in Co where you?

I 'll be heading to Taneycomo the week of the 13-19. I can hardly wait.

DavidF.

[Zach Bearden]

Sorry for the late response here.

We went to Frisco Colorado for The America Cup. It was an absolute blast! I got to watch some world class fly fishermen from around the world do their best.

We fished the Arkansas, Colorado, Blue, and Ten Mile Creek. The Blue was the toughest for me. It was DEEP (8-9ft) and fast. Funny thing about it though is it was smaller in width than that of the Lower Illinois. If you didn't have some absolutely humongous stoneflies or whatever else to get to the bottom you just didn't catch fish...

The Arkansas was the most fun for me though. I was on the opposite bank (after basically having to swim acrost lol) with a fly rod, my spool of Fluoro, a fly box, and a net. I landed 5 fish over on the opposite bank and had to go back across each time. It was exhausting! But I will never forget mixing Rock Crawling and fly fishing!

At one point I had an ultra long leader on to fish some deep fast water on. THe leader had to be 20-25ft long! I remember casting up in the head of my riffle with 2 HUGE stoneflies on and a H&C above that and polish nymphing it. I hooked up with a fish that had to be pushing 50cm! The brown slammed my stonefly and took off! I set the hook and watched as my -what the fish made appear to be puny- 5 weight rod doubled over and I saw the fish come flying out of the water! He came up, did a cartwheel, and took off again! I was freaking out, I didn't have the slightest idea how I was going to land this fish. I started hustling up and down these giant boulders and then realized that the fish had just pulled out. I dropped to my knees and felt like screaming at the top of my lungs out of rage that I had let a georgeous brown trout as such escape my clutches.

My controlled and I looked at each other in distraught as I got back up, checked my leader, and got to casting again. I made up for my loss by catching two 35cm browns almost instantly.

It was a wonderful trip and I would do it again in a heartbeat!

[DavidF.]

Sounds like you had a great time in Co.

I'm allways intrested in finding places to go in Co.

I usually fish the Rio Grande from Creede down to SouthFork.

I had to cancel my trip to Taneycomo this week.

Hope to bump into you at LIR sometime this fall/winter.

I'll be up there on a photography job as soon as I'm free.

Good luck fishing,

DavidF.