Fly Fishing Road Trips
Good People      Good Water       Good Fish

In 1999, my first Colorado trout was in the South Park area caught in Eleven Mile Cayon on the South Platte River.  I went to the University of Denver, so I knew the site by name, but that is about it.  My wife I were on our way for a vacation in Salida, Colorado, so the South Platte was an excellent place to take a rest.

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I only knew how to dry fly at this time, so I put on my brown caddis and began to cast.  I always believe every cast can produce a fish. And I know this has to help me catch lots of fish.  That day I threw about 40 casts in swift water while standing on a massive boulder.   In the middle of the river where rainbows like to feed a trout rose.

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Later, we traveled downstream to the South Park and fished the Middle Fork of the South Platte near the town of Hartsel.  I love streams surrounded by desert or grass plains.  It was sunny with patches of large clouds.  The wife, in both cases, read her book, thinking I would never catch a trout.  But have about an hour a landed a large brown.  She pushes me aside, grabs my fly rod, and starts fishing.

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A perfect day!