Grizzly Peak Fly Fishers - September 2020 Irideus

THE IRIDEUS The Newsletter of the Grizzly Peak Fly Fishers Based in Kensington, Serving the East Bay & Environs since 1982

When is it Okay to “Hook and Cook” rather than “Catch and Release”

By Bob Fabini

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CLUB MEETINGS Colorado

By Peter Burrows

Online Zoom Meetings Every second Wednesday Due to COVID-19 Concerns, Meetings will be conducted online in Zoom Business Meeting - 7:00pm

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FEATURES

Departments

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When is it okay to “hook and cook” rather than “catch and release

03 The President’s Message

Colorado

05 Zoom Primer

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03 BOARD 04 CALENDAR 06 Conservation Conversation 09 news, notes & random casts 10

Fishing Throwbacks

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Classifieds & Notices

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the President’s message

By Brad Gee

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ormally, it would be obvious that summer was winding down. I’d be hearing clubmembers’ vacation fish stories, planning for Labor Day and adjusting to the kids going back to school. Not this year. We haven’t gone anywhere and have no immediate plans to do so. In fact, the only way I know summer is ending is because the days are getting noticeably shorter ­­— or is that just all the smoke in the air?

Executive Board OFFICERS

Brad Gee President

Eric Larson Treasurer

PROGRAM CHAIRS & BOARD MEMBERS

Josh Genser

Julie Haselden

Mark Likos

Peter Burrows

Dave Garfin

Zachary Wong

Bob Fabini

Mike Leong

Program Chair

Education Chair

Needless to say, there are more important things happening right now than fishing. There are the tragic forest fires that have devastated so many acres and so many lives in our beautiful state, the ongoing protests and political polarization, and of course the COVID-19 pandemic that has disrupted so many aspects of “normal” life. As a natural introvert, I never thought the words “social isolation” would have so much meaning for me.

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It’s all very depressing, but I try to find the good in it all: the extra time at home with the family, the much shorter commute, and the nutritious homecooked meals. I’m thankful that I still have a job and that I don’t have COVID-19, and that I only know five people that contracted it, and they’ve all fully recovered. I’m thankful for the firefighters and the healthcare workers who have put their lives on the line to protect ours. And I’m even thankful that there are trout getting a break from us. Hopefully, they are happily guzzling mayflies, and will be bigger and healthier next year.

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As you know, all club outings are still on hold. But that won’t last forever, and we’ll have a celebratory get-together when we can. For now, let’s stay safe, healthy and appreciative for what we do have.

Thankfully,

Secretary

Mike Lippman

Conservation Chair Newsletter Newsletter

Membership

Membership

NON-BOARD CHAIRS

Lee Hahn Webmaster

Bob Marshak

Todd Pond

Librarian

Outings Coordinator THE IRIDEUS

Peter Burrows

Zachary Wong Design Editor

PHOTO CONTRUBITORS THIS MONTH

Cover.............................................................. Peter Burrows Table of Contents........................................... Zachary Wong Calendar......................................................... Zachary Wong Conservation..............................................................Various Fishing Throwbacks.......................................... UC Libraries Conservation with Sam Sedillo...........................Sam Sedillo Colorado................................................ Peter & Ari Burrows

We are always looking for photos! Submit your photos to Zachary Wong at craigwong810@gmail.com or Peter Burrows at peterlburrows@gmail.com

Brad Gee

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Upcoming Events Ongoing

Foundational Fly Tying Class - Online

September 9

September Club Meeting - Online on Zoom

September 13

Solano Stroll -CANCELLED-

September 19

Coastal Cleanup Work Party1

October 14

October Club Meeting - Online on Zoom

Past Events August 12 August Club Meeting - Online on Zoom

June 10 June Club Meeting - Online on Zoom

May 21

Todd Pond Talks - Upper Walker River

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Your Primer to Gettinng onto Zoom With COVID-19 cancelling spring events left and right and keeping us cooped up in our homes, Grizzly Peak Fly Fishers is going to move ahead and continue its meetings to bring you, our members, the best possible programming. For some, Zoom is an already essential part of your workplace but for the rest of us, Zoom might as well be a book written in a foreign language. Here’s GPFF’s handy-dandy guide to getting onto our meetings for the time being and soon you’ll be able to see old friends and forget about the worries of the world for one evening.

Step 1: You will receive by email a link to that month’s meeting. Make sure you save this email or star it or add it into your calendar.

On the day of, be sure to click on the link.

It will take you to a landing page on zoom’s website.

Step 2: This is what you should see. If you haven’t downloaded zoom, hit “download & run Zoom” If you get the popup above, hit Open Zoom. Zoom will automatically open up in its own window.

Step 3: You should see this screen now that zoom is open. If you are unsure you can hear or concerned your microphone isn’t working, click on Test Speaker and Microphone.

When ready, click Join with Computer audio.

If this is too daunting for some, or if you have a slow internet connection, click under phone call and it will provide a list of toll-free dial in numbers for your use.

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onservation onversation

for millennia. Those runs have dwindled significantly due to a variety of factors including climate change and the river’s four downstream dams.

With Julie Ruth Haselden

Coastal cleanup September 19, 2020

PacifiCorp’s Iron Gate Dam on the Klamath River in Northern California

Klamath River Dam Removal News GPFF joined over 90 organizations, including tribal nations, in suppport of the removal of the disastrous Klamath dams. We sent a message to PacifCorp and Berkshire Hathaway to help struggling Klamath communities and protect future generations.

The four dams blocking the Klamath River are obsolete “dead beat dams” and are scheduled for removal. We are eager for demolition to begin and for the return of migrating salmon and steelhead.

The Klamath River snakes from southern Oregon through a rugged and remote part of Northern California to the Pacific Ocean. It is the second largest in California, and it is home to multiple tribes that have relied on its salmon runs

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This year the Coastal Cleanup will not be hosted by East Bay Regional Park District due to COVID-19 restrictions. This year GPFF will self-direct our work party on September 19. What does that mean? I will supply trash bags, litter grabbers and disposable gloves.

We will have access to a dumpster! Volunteers will supply their own masks, closed-toed shoes, long pants and long-sleeve shirt, water and enthusiasm! We will meet at 10:30 near Tidewater (off Doolittle) and work for about two hours. Our project will be cleaning trash from East Creek Slough which typically collects trash from upstream before it is deposited into our bay. We will make a big difference!

Please contact me if you are able to join our Conservation work party: jhaselden17@ comcast.net. I will provide more specific directions for parking and meeting next week.

Hope to see you there!

There will also be a “Clean the Shore From Your Own Front Door” program the park district is implementing along with the

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Coastal Commission in place of the usual Coastal Cleanup Day. Here is a link to the EBRPD website info on it: https://www.ebparks.org/about/getinvolved/ volunteer/events.htm Bay Trail Fishing Opportunities I have seen fly fishers and spin casters along the beautiful Bay Trail in Berkeley, Albany and Richmond. Several locations are easily accessible with no overhead hazards to snag your casting! One location is at the foot of Gilman St. where parking is available, and you can scope out a perfect location in either direction without a crowd of other fishers. I

have seen a fly fisher using a float tube in the bay between 880 and the Berkeley Marina’s Caesar Chavez Park (check tides – you will want a high tide here for a float tube).

Lucretia Edwards Shoreline Park offers easy access for fly fishing and fantastic views. I saw this girl catch her third perch of the day at the Albany Bulb (she used pile worm bait).

I’m sure success could be had with a pile worm fly!

FISH EGGS SURVIVE A TRIP TROUGH A DUCK Birds eating, then pooping eggs may spread

species to new places - Science News August 2020 – by Carolyn Wilke “For fish eggs, getting gobbled by a duck kicks off a harrowing journey that includes a pummeling in the gizzard and an attack by stomach acids. But a few eggs can exit unscathed in a duck’s excrement, possibly helping to spread those fish, including invasive species, to different places, a study finds.

It’s been an ‘open question for centuries how these isolated water bodies can be populated by fish,’ says Patricia BurkhardtHolm, a fish biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland who was not involved with the new research. This study shows one way that water birds may disperse fish, she says.

Bird’s feathers, feet and feces can spread hardy plant seeds and invertebrates. But researchers didn’t expect that soft fish eggs could survive being in a bird’s gut, says Orsolyn Vincze, an evolutionary biologist at the Centre for Ecological Research in Debrecce, Hungary.

In the lab, Vincze and colleagues fed thousands of eggs from two invasive carp species to eight mallard ducks. About 0.2 percent of ingested eggs, 18 out of roughly 8,000, were intact after defecation, the team found. Some of those eggs contained wriggling embryos and a few eggs later hatched, the team reports in the July 7 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It’s not clear yet whether eggs survive in the way in the wild.

Most of the viable eggs were pooped out within an hour of being eaten, while one took at least four hours to pass. Migratory ducks could travel dozens or possibly hundreds of kilometers before excreting those eggs, the scientists suggest.

Though the surviving egg count is low, their numbers may add up, making bird poop

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a possibly important vehicle for spreading shish. A single carp can release hundreds of thousands of eggs at a time, Vincze says. And there is a huge number of mallards and other water birds throughout the world that may gorge themselves on those eggs.”

FYI from Linda Friedman “In a medication guide for Percocet (no I’m not an addict!!!) I was horrified to see, printed in the guide: ‘After you stop taking Percocet, dispose of unused tablets by flushing them down the toilet.’

Yup, VERY disturbing on so many levels.

1. I would strongly request that everyone (hopefully) and our members explicitly, read every word of their medication guides. In my opinion, most people don’t.

2. Contact the FDA. I did, and someone actually called me back from the FDA. Yes, a governmental agency! The response was positive, asking me for the manufacturer, prescription number & such.

3. Contact your prescribing pharmacy.”

Linda asked me to share this with GPFF members. In any case, NEVER flush pharmaceuticals into our water system! ~ Julie

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Groundwater Sustainability - Public Policy Institute of California

The recent completion of groundwater sustainability plans for California’s most over-pumped basins was a major step toward bringing basins into long-term balance, as mandated by the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). As these plans move through the state approval process, the next stage is implementation. We talked to Trevor Joseph—the first SGMA employee at the Department of Water Resources (DWR), and now a member of a groundwater sustainability agency in the Sacramento Valley—about next steps and possible pitfalls.

Read the rest of the interview here: https://www.ppic.org/blog/groundwatersustainability-moves-from-planning-toimplementation/?utm_source=rss&utm_ medium=rss&utm_campaign=groundwatersustainability-moves-from-planning-toimplementation?utm_source=ppic&utm_ medium=email&utm_campaign=blog_ subscriber

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News, Notes & Random Casts GPFF September Meeting Wednesday September 9, 6:30 pm Sam Sedillo works for Trout Unlimited in California as the Public Lands Coordinator out of the Truckee TU (TRTU) office. He works on public lands defense, habitat enhancement projects, volunteer operations, fish sampling, and outreach. Trout Unlimited works to conserve, protect, and restore North America’s Trout Salmon, and steelhead. Sam will be presenting on how TU staff and grassroots are leading projects to conserve, protect, and restore trout and salmon fisheries throughout California and how we all can partner together on the conservation initiatives and efforts in California. Specifically he will be talking about Trout Unlimited’ s current and upcoming work in Northern California centered around trout, salmon and steelhead. TU is excited to be working on projects that both directly benefit the special fish that exist in the state and also provide increased opportunities for anglers to catch these fish. Moreover, Sam will be talking about how to fish two of the rivers that Trout Unlimited is invested in, the Truckee and Little Truckee Rivers.

Irideus Announcements Starting in the last issue at popular request, we’ve begun including a classifieds section at the end of the newsletter.

If you would like to post an item for sale, you can reach out to Zach Wong at craigwong810@ gmail.com with the subject line: Classified Ad Request. In the body of your email, be sure that your ad is 150 words or less, and include a price, and form of contact.

There will be no Irideus in the month of October.

Passing the torch A great article was shared with the editorial staff about why we should train the next generation or our kids to fly fish.

Read the article below: https://www.outsideonline.com/2398249/ t e a c h - y o u r - k i d s - f l y - fi s h ? u t m _ medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_ campaign=onsiteshare

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FISHING THROWBACKS

This month’s fishing throwback is taken from the 1960 Sportsman’s Illustrated Book of Wet Fly Fishing. In particular, the color plates document the gentle arc that emerging pupae take and to simulate this same sort of rise with the Leisenring lift.

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By Bob Fabini

When is it okay to “hook and cook,” rather than “catch and release”

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wo years ago, I was driving to Yosemite with Lisa, a friend from teenage years, who is like a younger sister. Lisa likes to ask provocative questions, and she questioned my persistence in annoying fish by catching them, just to then let them go. Being long accustomed to her winking provocations, I asked, “would you feel better about my catching them if I killed them?”

1. Keeping a fish has to be legal. Many of us fish regularly in waters that are catch and release only.

I imagine most fly fishermen have had some variation on this conversation.

Not wanting to leave it feeling snarky, I explained my underlying philosophy on catch and release, and that there are times when it is okay to “hook and cook.” A recent conversation with a prospective GPFF member set me to thinking on the subject again, so I decided to share some thoughts on the issue.

3. I have to be able to consume any fish within a few hours or I won’t keep it. The fish has to be fresher than the very freshest fish I can purchase for me to even consider keeping it.

When my wife and I were traveling in Alaska decades ago, if we caught a salmon the right size for two, we stopped fishing, built a fire by the river, cooked it up and ate it right then and there. Positively breathtaking!

My wife and I absolutely love fresh fish, so when is it okay to eat your catch? For me, three factors determine whether I keep a fish, besides my just feeling hungry.

2. I must have confidence that my taking a fish won’t negatively impact the resource.

For example, I would not keep wild juvenile salmon or steelhead caught while fishing for trout.

It also matters whether the fish is wild (naturally reproduced) or planted (hatchery reproduced). I keep the occasional small wild striped bass, maybe two or three per year. But I only keep wild trout if they are in a remote location with very little fishing pressure, and

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then, only a minimal number. On the East Coast I keep a few wild bluefish each year when they are found in massive schools. I will happily keep wild jacksmelt caught in the Bay. They are everywhere, and they’re delicious.

Obviously, if you choose to release a fish, you want it to survive. This requires that you treat it with the greatest care and respect.

Start with always fishing with barbless hooks.

This makes unhooking a simple, quick task.

I usually release trout or steelhead without removing them from the water at all. As a result, I have few pictures of the fish I catch (although Grizzly Peak does have a “keep ‘em wet” photo contest to encourage proper handling and release of fish).

I use a net when trout fishing, which allows me to control them underwater so they can be safely released. In other words, nets are not only useful for taking fish out of the water.Stripers, bluefish, and freshwater bass are more robust, and can take being out of the water briefly. I also lift stripers in the Bay or Delta out of the water to avoid having it taken by a seal while unhooking. I’ve had two close calls, and prefer to keep my fingers.

Fish survival is also dependent on temperature and dissolved oxygen levels.

Oxygen levels are inversely related to temperature, so high water temperature adversely affects fish survival. For trout, I stop fishing when temperatures reach the high sixties. You, of course, wouldn’t know this unless you carry a thermometer. Put it on your Holiday wish list if you don’t already have one.

If the water reaches 65 degrees or more, it is a good time to go small stream fishing at higher altitude.

Of course, I realize everyone has their own personal view on the topic of keeping fish,

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but I would urge you to adopt some or all of these rules. I grew up in a time when everyone kept every fish. People would return from a trip with coolers filled to overflowing with trout. I remember going deep sea fishing on party boats, and clients leaving the party boat with 100 pounds of fish each. Our resources can no longer support that kind of harvest.

Over the years, I kept fewer and fewer fish, and discovered that it did not interfere with my pleasure in the least. Fly fishing with barbless hooks is the only sport I am aware of where you can be physically connected to one of Mother Nature’s wild creatures, hold it in your hand while admiring its beauty, and then release it to return to the wild. That’s hard to top as far as I’m concerned.

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Conservation with trout unlimited’s sam sedillo

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am Sedillo works for Trout Unlimited in California as the Public Lands Coordinator out of the Truckee TU (TRTU) office.

He works on public lands defense, habitat enhancement projects, volunteer operations, fish sampling, and outreach. Trout Unlimited works to conserve, protect, and restore North America’s Trout Salmon, and steelhead.

Sam will be presenting on how TU staff are leading projects to conserve, protect, and restore trout and salmon fisheries throughout California and how we all can partner together on the conservation initiatives and efforts in California. Specifically he will be talking about Trout Unlimited’ s current and upcoming work in Northern California centered around trout, salmon and steelhead. TU is excited to be working on projects that both directly benefit

the special fish that exist in the state and also provide increased opportunities for anglers to catch these fish. Moreover, Sam will be talking about how to fish two of the rivers that Trout Unlimited is invested in, the Truckee and Little Truckee Rivers.

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Colorado

By peter burrows

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’ve always had a thing against Colorado. I’ve looked for any excuse to fish in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming or Utah, but never even wet a fly in the Centennial State. Why so biased? I really don’t know. I think it has something to do with watching John Denver’s Rocky Mountain Christmas special in 1975 as a kid. All that cringey, fake cowboy stuff left me thinking of Colorado as the “fake” West.

How wrong I was. I spent the first two weeks of July, travelling from Alameda to Fort Collins with my son Ari. I managed to squeeze in four days of fishing, on everything from roaring rivers to placid Alpine lakes. I saw some of the most beautiful country of my life, and definitely the most beautiful species of trout (the greenback cutthroat). And once in CO, no ride took more than four or five hours. They all felt short, next to schlep to the McCloud.

Why am I telling you about this in the Irideus? Because if you like long, extended road trips – and I’d bet this will be a more popular option in the “new normal” – you could do a lot worse than northern Colorado. It’s closer than Yellowstone, for example, but offers a huge variety of water and probably less crowds.

The first good thing about the trip is that it doesn’t require taking Rt 80 route across Nevada. Been there, done that. We took Rt. 50 out of Reno, and drove a section once dubbed

by Life magazine as the “Loneliest Road in America.” I’ve been on lonelier, but it is a varied, interesting landscape, with everything from moonscape-like desert to pine-covered mountains, with a few former ghost-towns mixed in. We made it to Ely in eight hours or so, just in time to grab a decent prime rib at the Cellblock Steakhouse.

The next day’s seven-hour drive, mostly through Southern Utah on Highway 70, was spectacular, much of it looking like a backdrop to a John Wayne flick. Some spots actually were.

Once we turned south off the highway in Grand Junction, CO, the scenery became lusher and greener, as we were now on the west slope of the Rockies. Our destination was Montrose, a lovely small city with an idyllic 1950s vibe, of the Red State variety. I’m told its Trump Country,

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unlike many of the towns we visited. It’s also the home of Scott Fly Rods.

We were in Montrose to float the Roaring Fork River the next day. This river drops in elevation as much as the mighty Colorado, but in just 70 miles. That night, our guide told me the river was at just 1100 CFS, less than half of what it usually is in July, and that the famous green drake hatch was starting to take off. I had that hopeful pre-trip feeling that maybe we’d hit it just right, that we were in for an epic day of battling muscular rainbows until we were sick of it.

Of course, that didn’t happen. We caught quite a few fish, up to maybe 15 inches long. But none were particularly memorable. There were plenty of bugs coming off, including caddis and some thick clouds of yellow sallies, the smallest of the North American stoneflies. But not a single green drake, which must have been what the fish wanted because we didn’t get more than a couple of grabs on dries all day.

Glenwood Springs, which is right on Rt. 70. It’s mostly private water so it wasn’t very crowded, even on July 4 weekend, and we saw plenty of wildlife, including a mama black bear. The fishing, if not the catching, was fast and furious.

Even at the lower flows, you need to be on your game to cast frequently, both to get a decent drift in the turbulent water but also because there are just so many fishy looking spots to try. By the way, our guide was Jimi Orori, who visited the area from his native Japan in the 1980s and never left. I booked Jimi through Cutthroat Anglers, at anglers@fishcolorado.com.

The next day we resisted the temptation to hit the famous Frying Pan River, mostly because it was sure to be packed with wading fisherman trying to get spooky fish to rise to tiny flies. So it was off to Fort Collins, to help my son get situated in a new apartment.

Fortunately, my friend Dave Webb offered to let us stay with him. And three days later, he and his fishing buddy Lewis Hartle treated us to something special: a float on the North Platte in southeast Wyoming.

The 3.5 hour ride, with their 16-foot raft in tow, took us through the lovely Cache La Poudre River Canyon just outside of Fort Collins. Soon we were in classic Wyoming high plains. I never dreamed there was a place in America with this many antelope; more than I could count.

That said, I’d fish the Roaring Fork again.

We floated the section from Carbondale to

We floated a stretch called Gray Reef, a rapidless 8-mile section that supposedly holds 8,000 fish per mile and is particularly famous for great hopper fishing for big rainbows, browns and cutthroats. We saw plenty of lunkers swimming around, but my son the spin-fishermen missed six or so hits on nymphs with mighty strikes, as if he were throwing crankbaits to largemouth bass. Hours passed, and we didn’t catch a thing except a suntan and

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some nice pictures of antelope and deer posing at rivers’ edge against red canyon walls.

I know this travelogue is getting long, so I’ll pick up the pace. The next highlight was an after-work trip to Lake Agnes, a gorgeous 2.5 hour ride from Fort Collins. After a steep but brief half-a-mile hike from the trailhead, we came to a small lake ringed by mountains, including Nokhu Crags (which would undoubtedly remind Irideus readers of Castle Crags near Dunsmuir.)

I got sick of constantly adjusting the depth on my nymphs given the constantly shifting bottom, so committed to sticking with a big tan hopper and a dry dropper to match whatever was coming off – usually yellow sallies.

Just as everyone was truly losing hope, something big gulped the hopper and took off like a bonefish. The fight was more like a salt-water fish than any trout I’ve ever caught, leaving us to wonder at one point whether it was some kind of carp. It turned out to be a mean old, hook-jawed 22-inch cutbow. It was the only fish we got to the net, but we all said it made our day (I think three of us were lying).

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I’m usually not excited by lake fishing, but that changed when I noticed dozens of fish moseying around within five feet of the bank, clearly in some mating-related activity. Even underwater, I saw a shocking red underside.

At Dave’s suggestion, I threw on a small purple hopper and a size-22 black midge, and immediately hooked up. After a surprisingly tough fight, I was gobsmacked to see a greenback cutthroat up close. I don’t know if it was just the right time of year, but the combination of the dark top, the soft yellowish cutthroat color in the middle and that neon red, almost orange belly was something I’ll never forget. Of course, this is when my iPhone battery died, so here’s a stock photo from the Web.

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I caught a half-dozen or so of these beauties, with the biggest maybe 14 inches, before it started getting dark. If returning to a place you’ve already been is allowed on a bucket list, then going back to Lake Agnes is on mine.

My last adventure (Ari was working) was a Saturday trip to the Yampa River in northeast Colorado with Dave, his daughter Julia and her boyfriend Nathan. This turned out to be one of those days that felt like a week, in a very good way. And I didn’t even catch a fish.

We left the house at 5:00 AM, and were rewarded with seeing nine moose, seven of them in one huge bog, before dropping down from 10,000-foot peaks into North Park, a ridiculously scenic basin surrounded by high mountains and criss-crossed with slow-moving, buggy trout streams.

Our destination was farther on, and the temptations kept coming. After a late breakfast in Steamboat Springs, we followed the Yampa River for an hour or so until we came to Bear Lake, where Dave and Co. found a campsite.

I needed to get back to Fort Collins, so after catching a few rainbows – again, on my trusty purple hopper – headed back towards North Park for some solo adventuring.

with endless cut banks and thick overhanding willows – small water, and fairly tight quarters for supposedly huge browns. I never had so much fun not catching fish, while keeping my eyes open for the moose that were obviously around, given all the hoofprints in the deep mud.

I pulled myself away so I’d have time to fish the evening hatch at Jim Wright Reservoir back up in the high country. Dave had told me you can catch grayling, which I’ve never done. I arrived with 30 minutes of light left, and walked a few hundred yards through aspens to reach a flat calm lake, glowing in sunset colors. And there was a lot of bug sipping going on.

Alas, I still haven’t caught a grayling. I had a few hits before tangling in a tree, and my 56-yearold eyes were unable to fix the ensuing rats nest in the fading light. But it was a great end to one of the best fishless days of fishing I ever had, and my introduction to Colorado fishing.

My first stop was the Michigan River, just outside of Walden. It’s a small braided stream,

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