Back In Action

I had some small computer problems happening lately. Kept getting strange user names popping up, so I kept deleting them and shutting off the computer witch ruined any unsaved information they may have had. Well who ever "they" were eventually deleted me! So I fixed their wagon, I had "The Computer Guy" reboot their ass... to the tune of 250$. O well, now I can keep y'all up with the latest. Ice fishing at Turquoise Lake. 

 That's my daughter's Christmas present trying to keep warm so I can fish. You can see that he chewed on my rod butt. My wife's pink reel, a duck taped tip, and it still rips lips.

Dry Flies On Ice

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.

Fish are Food

 Things are starting to slow down at the shop, so today I had the pleasure of taking my wife fishing. We hiked into the hills and fished for little brookies.

 On the left is what brook trout look like just after swimming in the river. On the right is what they look like just before swimming in my stomach.

 

2,000 Views

Wow 2,000 people actually viewed my blog. I know that's not that many, but I haven't even figured out my followers page yet. I'm sure I don't have 2,000 friends so that means random people must be just checking my stuff out. I hope more people check my stuff out... I hope millions of people check my stuff out and I make millions of dollars. I hope I revolutionize fly fishing, save the world from useless politics, and end world hunger. Well, maybe I'm getting ahead of myself. I've made around $1.50 with AdSense so far witch might buy a hungry kid a cheeseburger. Either way I'd like to thank all the Dead Pike Fly Fishing Fluff Chuckers who Chase Tail and think being an Average Zero is a Way of Life. I would like to thank the fish and our ability to think, dream, and scheme of ways to catch them. I'd also like to thank my wife, who can stroke fish (and other things), my daughter who would like to catch fish but can only manage to fall in the water (she even fell in an ice fishing hole), my dad who stuck me in the back of the boat, my mom who had me, my sisters for feeding me worms, Eagle Claw for making hooks (maybe they'll send me some free ones), Sage (again maybe free stuff), and our lord savior mother nature for making fish.... OK getting ahead of myself again.

What's a blog without a pic, so this is why trout suck and toothys are awesome.