Taking the Denver Broncos Fishing

I had the pleasure of taking Kyle Orton and Chris Kuper from the Denver Broncos fishing last weekend. They were cool guys and had a great day. The fishing was decent, they landed 10 trout out of 20 strikes, some action on dries most on nymphs. The Broncos had a bye week and the new NFL rules state that players need at least four consecutive days off. So if any other NFL'ers, or anybody for that matter, wants to go fishing my schedule is wide open for the next couple weeks.

Wisconsin River Pike

The family flew back to Wisconsin last week for a wedding, and I got to squeeze in a few hours of pike fishing. We've never had too much luck with big pike on the Wisconsin, (a few 35 inchers), but plenty of little guys. I got my wife her first toothy on the fly. My pops always does well with the spinner/dinner rod. I caught an even dozen and picked up a couple bonus smallmouth. A bucktail fly with a barred rabbit zonker strip did most of the damage. A pure white bunny leach also worked well and was easier to cast. Sometimes I add a little spinner for extra action, (Macks Smile Blades), they are light, easy to cast, and always work great.

Crushing the Colorado

My buddy Nate and I had a great day fishing on the Colorado River the other day. Anyone who fishes knows there are good days and bad days on the water, we definitely had a good day. We caught mostly brown trout on a variety of techniques. We started nymphing with small midge and mayfly patterns. That's how these two were caught.

Some clouds came in so we switched to dries. A few missed strikes from some bigger fish were quickly forgot upon seeing tenacious little brown trout do back flips out of the water for our flies.

Then we switched to streamers and busted the biggest browns of the day. Casting at the bank and giving the fly a few short strips followed by a pause drove the fish nuts

Beautiful fall colors on the trees and trout, a great friend, and fishing! fishing! fishing! A great day crushing the Colorado.