Tag: brown-trout
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Routine (The good, the bad, and the necessary)
Routine is part of life. Most of us wake up, go to work, come home, make dinner, watch a show and go to bed. We rinse and repeat Monday through Friday until the weekend finally arrives. I’ve had students for the past four weeks and we now have our routine. It’s a good one and…
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Compliments and Kindness Don’t Cost a Thing
Why do some people hold back on giving compliments? Do we just not think about giving them or do we keep them to ourselves? Does it diminish us to build others up? Complimenting others makes me feel good. Building people up is oh so important for kids, middle aged folks (like myself) and retirees alike.…
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Back “Home”
I don’t have any immediate family left in New York State these days, but I have enough people that still feel like family. They’re the type of friends you fall back into rhythm with like a musician picking up an old guitar that’s been in a dusty closet for a year. It takes a few…
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A Day on the Water
No alarm set, but I still wake up early. I get to go fishing today. My coffee tastes just a little bit better because it’s Saturday. My truck is ready and willing to take me to the river and starts without a fuss. The wind is supposed to gust over 30mph later on so the…
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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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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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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…
Mayfly Musings 