Colorado

[ozark trout fisher]

After too many years of not fishing any of my old favorite rivers, I finally have a trip back home planned. For those who don't know, I spent five years in Colorado, and came to absolutely love it there. Fortune brought me here to Missouri (which I thought was a bad thing at the time, until I learned about the Ozarks and came to love it here just as much). Still, my heart has been calling me back west in an unimaginable way, and this year I am finally going to make it out there. I managed to get off work for a week in August and will be headed out there to fish my home river, the Yampa, and as many other rivers, lakes, and ponds that I used to fish as I can. August will be a little tough for the high desert reaches of the Yampa that I like to fish, but the trade off should be some pretty good high country fishing in Routt National Forest and in the Flattops Wilderness area. Also I will probably do a little fishing for the big rainbows and browns on the tailwater portion of the Yampa that stays cool through the year. Anyway, I haven't looked forward to anything this much since I went to Montana a few years back... Three months is kind of a long time, but this should be worth the wait.