Tim Smith Posted November 8, 2011 Posted November 8, 2011 Had a couple of good trips to Rocky Mountain National Park and added greenback trout to the species list. http://brooksmith.blogspot.com/2011/10/greenback-trout-elk-and-estes-park.html
moguy1973 Posted November 8, 2011 Posted November 8, 2011 Beautiful little fish aren't they? I got the chance to catch a few up in the glacial lakes of RMNP back in 2007...good times... -- JimIf people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. -- Doug Larson
eric1978 Posted November 8, 2011 Posted November 8, 2011 Nice pics and a cool blog, Tim. Now keep that spinning rod at home ya rube...it's about as appropriate out there as a streamside Starbucks. Kidding of course. Not really. It still frustrates me, too, but ultimately it's worth it.
Outside Bend Posted November 8, 2011 Posted November 8, 2011 Nice photos, and pretty fish! I'll get up there one of these days... <{{{><
Tim Smith Posted November 8, 2011 Author Posted November 8, 2011 Nice photos, and pretty fish! I'll get up there one of these days... Thanks guys. Hopefully I'll know enough at some point to be able to be able to offer help and advice about when you make it out here. At this point I'm enjoying the learning curve and solving the puzzles. So far the fishing's good enough to forgive me my ignorances. Eric, I have been outfished (once) on the same water by fly fishers (and recently managed to outfish spin-tackle fishers with a fly rod) so I realize there is virtue in the technique. I'm not going to give up on it but geez...what a pain. It's not easy to find out I've spent half an hour casting a microscopic fly that had the barb broken off in the tree I hooked on a back cast, or when I miss my third hook set in a row, or when I'm untangling a wind knot or when the pile of line at my feet has decided to have an orgy with a willow bush... ...some days I am most certainly happy to be a rube.
dave potts Posted December 27, 2011 Posted December 27, 2011 I just saw your post and the title caught my eye. I was wondering what species they were. I was at RMNP a couple of years ago and caught several of those in a little stream in one of the valleys. Don't recall just where it was but it was one of the areas where a bunch of elk come down during the rut. We were there in Sept. In fact, I had to vacate the stream due to the elk coming down. They are pretty fish. I caught a half dozen or so on a small elk hair caddis which seemed fitting as the real elk drove me off. Dave
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