Well we made it to Colorado, saw some crazy murals in the Denver airport, stopped at a badass fly shop on the way to Estes, ate a kick ass burger at Oskar Blues (good beer too), and even managed to squeeze in some fishing time in the Park before it got dark on us. Elk are everywhere around here, even in town. It was a good day.
Freshwater
Popper style
Popper style, pop, pop, popper style……
The lakes in the neighborhood ponds have cleared up quite a bit and as Catch Cormier always says “clear water favors the fly rodder”. So yesterday after work I slung some poppers and had pretty good action before the sun went down.



I was using smaller poppers that were better suited for bream, but every once in a while a bass would explode from under the grass to annihilate the popper, or even the hooked bream. They were very aggressive yesterday which made for a lot of fun.
Also fun – rapping Popper Style while fly fishing in the neighborhood.
She want pop pop, she love pop pop……
Spotted bass video
Here is a short video I put together catching that nice spot this past weekend. Unfortunately there wasn’t too much more fish catching action during the float, so the rest of the video is pretty boring.

