Tag: Fly Fishing
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Colorado’s third Annual Troutfest casts into Coors Field, highlights need for water conservation
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Something fishy was going on Saturday at the home of the Rockies. That’s because Colorado Trout Unlimited — a local non-profit dedicated to protecting and conserving cold-water fisheries and watersheds — and the Colorado Wildlife Council were hosting their third-annual Troutfest Colorado. The festival looked to…
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By a master’s hands in the Colorado mountains, the bamboo fly rod lives on
LYONS • It’s not often Mike Clark shows guests to the back of his shop. It is, after all, his space. His domain. A little, wooden world of fine, meticulous work. One might say magic happens here, if they are so romantically inclined to the bamboo fly rod. Clark is not all that inclined, a…
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For veterans in Colorado Springs, fly fishing leads to healing waters
TELLER COUNTY • After 20 years in the Army, Chuck Myers retired in 2014. “They don’t really prepare you,” he says. “They just hand you a bunch of materials and basically say, ‘All right, you’re good to go.’” Myers was not good to go. His life was organized by assignments, by precise instructions and goals…