Headed Back To Colorado

[ozark trout fisher]

Well, the details are still a little up in the air, but it looks as if I'm probably going to be making it back to Colorado this year, this time for a very different kind of fishing than what we did in August... The plan is to head out a couple days after Christmas, and get back on the 3 or 4th of January. We'll be fishing the Fryingpan and the Roaring Fork River primarily, two streams that tend to just about always stay good and fishable through the winter. It's been too long since I've spent time on a high western river during the winter time. Of course winter fishing on high altitude streams can be a little bit of a an interesting proposition weather wise, usually it's a little miserable but that can be part of the charm too. In any case it should be a good trip. The mountains out there are beyond description in the winter time, it's worth the trip just for that.

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Will you adopt me and take me along?

[ozark trout fisher]

Will you adopt me and take me along?

Unless you are equally insane as my entire family appears to be then I don't think you want to come along in January. I'll admit I am a little iffy on the idea of wading in 35 degree water with air temps that could be anywhere from the 30s to well below 0, but in my defense this trip wasn't my idea. I was more than happy to go along with it though I'll admit.The whole deal is a family reunion in Glenwood Springs Colorado, which is as good of a place as any. The lower Roaring Fork and the Colorado flow right through town both of which could be decent fishing for trout and whitefish that time of year if the weather isn't too cold. The Pan is an easy drive, weather permitting (a phrase you always have to use when describing winter fishing in the Rocky Mountains!), and I have a lot more faith in that fishing well, with it being a tailwater.

[ozark trout fisher]

Unless you are equally insane as my entire family appears to be then I don't think you want to come along in January. I'll admit I am a little iffy on the idea of wading in 35 degree water with air temps that could be anywhere from the 30s to well below 0, but in my defense this trip wasn't my idea. I was more than happy to go along with it though I'll admit.The whole deal is a family reunion in Glenwood Springs Colorado, which is as good of a place as any. The lower Roaring Fork and the Colorado flow right through town both of which could be decent fishing for trout and whitefish that time of year if the weather isn't too cold. The Pan is an easy drive, weather permitting (a phrase you always have to use when describing winter fishing in the Rocky Mountains!), and I have a lot more faith in that fishing well, with it being a tailwater.

Plans appear to be changing. Looks like the destination will instead be Breckinridge. Not my favorite part of Colorado by any stretch of the imagination, but the Blue River flows right through town and the nearby tailwater reach through Silverthorne should fish during the winter. And it's still Colorado,so I guess I'm not too upset...