Author: Michael Agostinho
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Staring at the Sun
If I’m being honest, I never imagined I’d ever visit the state of Arkansas. However, there are some famous rivers such as the White and Little Red, which hold brown trout that would eat the browns I’ve been catching recently. In 1992, a 40 pound brown trout was caught below Greer’s Ferry Lake (where we…
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The Things That Matter
If you’ve ever seen True Detective, (Season 1 is quite possibly the finest season of any TV show, ever) then you’ll remember that “time is a flat circle.” I love that line, but I’m not so sure it’s true although it sure is fun to say, especially to people who get it, because when they…
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Winter Break
When I started this post it was sunny, and now it’s snowing again. That’s winter in Colorado for you. It was surely a memorable break with plenty of fish caught (and lost) on my home river and the Roaring Fork. I’ve talked to friends with even more stressful jobs than my own and they’ve said…
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The Best Laid Plans
I can’t decide if fishing teaches me about life or if life teaches me about fishing. Perhaps it truly doesn’t matter, but at some point, we’ve all carefully crafted an immaculate plan that fell flat on its face. A couple years ago, I was fishing the Fryingpan River on a simply stunning July day and got my…
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January Fishing
How about that cold front that whipped through two weekends ago?!? Vail received 37 inches from that storm, which has us back above normal snowpack for this time of year. Hopefully there’s a great deal more to come. Prior to that rapid weather change, I fished the Fryingpan on January 6th and did pretty well. We started around…
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Into the Wild: Small Wonders
As a teacher, I’m not too proud to admit when I’m wrong and if I get a question I can’t answer, I’ll look it up. For one thing, I want to know more tomorrow than I do today and I want to practice what I preach, not just preach. So, how I had never read the…
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A Winter Poem
Cold hands The gurgle of water beneath a frozen Three Mile Creek descends into the mighty Fork below Life American Dippers bob and weave in search of an easy meal Winter warm The Sun does its job, if only during the heart of the afternoon Water Frigid temps keep bug activity to a minimum, but…
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Happy New Year!
2024 is here and it’s frigid out there. After I spent a week with family down in the Denver area cooking, relaxing, sipping and sleeping; I drove back out to Eagle County in perfect weather. That’s a blessing and a curse. We need snow, but I didn’t mind a quick trip home either. Although it was sunny, the week…
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A Friday on the Eagle
Due to the relatively mild winter in Eagle County (so far) there was actually less ice than when I last fished a few weeks ago. Gypsum still has more people (and fishing pressure) on the weekends (I always include Friday as part of a weekend) and although I did start there I ended up further upstream. There…
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December Fishing
My last time out was on my home river, the Eagle, and winter fishing is officially here. There’s ice above Gypsum (in some areas) on the banks and it’s slowly expanding, but as the weather fluctuates so will the ice, so be careful out there. Other areas are already completely iced over, but those spots have…
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