Tag: Fly Fishing
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Colorado’s most beautiful drive?
We stumbled on perhaps the most beautiful drive in Colorado by accident on Saturday. “Do you want to take the highway?” I asked my wife and our son after a day of fruitless fly fishing in the famous Dream Stream. It had been a beautiful day of hiking along the South Platte River that connects…
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Colorado’s most beautiful drive?
We stumbled on perhaps the most beautiful drive in Colorado by accident on Saturday. “Do you want to take the highway?” I asked my wife and our son after a day of fruitless fly fishing in the famous Dream Stream. It had been a beautiful day of hiking along the South Platte River that connects…
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Long-distance running, fishing and craft beer: Inside Colorado’s Troutman world
Just about 10 years ago, Andrew Todd was working as a research biologist in the wilds of Colorado’s San Luis Valley, living out of his truck with time on his hands at the end of the workday. “I’d go run and fish,” he says, “and I always had good craft beer around.” It’s the story…
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Colorado’s third Annual Troutfest casts into Coors Field, highlights need for water conservation
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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Being Best: A Colorado fly fishing legend reflects on life, career
BOULDER • At 91, A.K. Best sometimes thinks back to the things his dad said. “Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, pay attention,” the man used to say back in Depression-era Iowa, where he farmed with a team of horses. Best paid attention, explaining how he made a name for himself. He is a legend…
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A Colorado fly fishing legends reflects on life, career
A.K. Best is best known for his prolific contributions to the world of fly tying, where his meticulously crafted flies, detailed instructional books, and innovative techniques have earned him widespread acclaim among fly fishers worldwide.
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Colorado’s feather king: How Tom Whiting came to rule the chicken side of the fly fishing world
DELTA • At the end of a long, winding road through the desert of western Colorado, through a biosecurity gate and through one locked door after another, one arrives at high-tech chambers that seem more fit for a spaceship than a chicken farm. Thousands of eggs at any time sit in these incubators controlled for…
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Weekend things to do around Denver and beyond
THURSDAY — THROUGH MAY 29 The newest Immersive Experience opens: Disney Animation. The history of the top films from the Disney Animation Studios, 3900 Elati St. $44.99. Closed Tuesdays. lighthouseimmersive.com/disney/denver FRIDAY-SUNDAY If you spot a plethora of golf shirts and golf hats on folks headed for Colorado Convention Center, a big hint it’s the pre-season…
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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…