Fishing Report For The Weekend

[Micheal Kyle]

There are times when the power to catch fish some where other than your back yard will take over and you find you and your wife and a couple of buddies in a 60 hour time period travle all most 2000 miles. That is exactly what happen this weekend. The AFFTA show was being held in Denver I needed to talk shop with some of the leading manufactures in the fly fishing industry before our big move. So on Friday afternoon and I mean Friday afternoon we decided to go the show, I had to promise that we would fish and so on Sunday we found our way up to Rock Mountain National Park.

If you have never been to a fly fishing show it is awesome and this one is open to the public. All the Presidents and owners of companies are there and they will take the time to talk to you. For tiers Bob Clouser and Lefty Kreh plus many more. Just about the whole US fly fishing team was there and very actively talking and tying. The one thing that I love about shows if you want to spend one day just casting evry rod that you can think of you might just get it done. I'm not sure how many Scott rods that Randy and I cast but it was a bunch and then the same was for Sage. It is a great show and I think that it will get bigger than the FFR show in September.

OK on to the the fishing report We went on up to Estes Park on Saturday and fished the big Thompson below Olympus Dam you had about one mile of open water with a little bit of ice, then from there down it was very frozen. Duane had never been to Colorado so after a little tour of the town of Estes Park and seeing the Elk and watching me be stupid with one of the many pet elk in the town and wishing we knew where we could duck hunt, if there was one duck there must have been 5000 ducks in town. I just pretty sure that there were more ducks than people.. So we finally made it to the water to wet a line.

The fishing was awesome I had three fish on Randy had 5 fish on and Duane was the big winner he had 17 fish on. Yep I would call it an old fashioned butt kick-en but to me I do not count the succes of the day by how many fish you catch just as long as you have a good time trying to catch fish.

For flies we were using a primrose and pearl midge with red head Barbie underneath. Spot the fish and fish to them. I think that the biggest fish was about a 16 inch Brown that Duane caught. We did not arrive back into Springfield until 5am Monday. It was pretty funny we go from cold and snow one day to tornado's the next day. I hope that everyone made it through the big storms.

Remember we are moving this week to our new location 2863 South Campbell Right next door to Fin&feather. Here are a few pics of the trip

Michael