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The pandemic, lots of snow and the San Juan River and Southern Ute Reservation closures may have inspired you to start tying your own flies. I know the local fly shops, and probably the non-fisher...
DATE: March 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Outdoors
“When is the San Juan going to open?” It was the question every fly shop around the Four Corners has had to answer every day for the last year. Last week, anglers finally got their answer. New...
DATE: March 4, 2021 | UPDATED: 2 days 11 hours ago | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
The ice fishing tournament at Vallecito Reservoir completed its fifth year Saturday with a 5-pound catch and 153 participants from around the country. Competitors arrived early to attempt to snare...
DATE: Feb. 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News
The Vallecito Conservation and Sporting Association held its fifth annual ice fishing tournament Saturday, resulting in some winning catches and disputed results. The ice fishing tournament is the...
DATE: Feb. 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News
Not long ago, a friend asked me how I knew to use a San Juan Worm one day, while fly fishing the Animas River. I thought about giving her some technical reason, but then I decided the truth was...
DATE: Jan. 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Outdoors
Prolonged drought in Southwest Colorado is now affecting Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s fish hatchery in Durango. Joe Lewandowski, spokesman for CPW, said the Durango Fish Hatchery, along the banks...
DATE: Jan. 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News
If you are familiar with the south, you know from the title I was in Louisiana. Louisiana, similar to other Gulf Coast states, is known for many things. But I think the gumbo, beer and redfish give...
DATE: Jan. 1, 2021 | COLUMN: Flies & Lies
The high country is snowed-in, the Southern Ute Reservation and the San Juan River are closed, the lakes are icing over; the Animas is our fall-back. And, frankly, it is a good fall-back. From the...
DATE: Dec. 11, 2020 | COLUMN: Flies & Lies
We’ve all seen advertising pictures of little girls with cute curly hair. Those of us that fly fish have seen a fly cast that falls several feet short of the intended target because the line has...
DATE: Nov. 6, 2020 | COLUMN: Flies & Lies
With no races to train for in 2020, Bryon Powell turned his attention to his newfound hobby for a summer of motivation. It all led to an impressive feat in the Colorado mountains. Silverton’s...
DATE: Oct. 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Outdoors
A decades-long effort to restore the Colorado River cutthroat trout to the upper reaches of Hermosa Creek has been completed, resulting in the largest continuous stretch of waterway for the native...
DATE: Oct. 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News
