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Colorado Fly Fishing - Bait Huckin' vs. Fly Fishin'

It was one of those fishing trips. You know,crashing off the bows of their boats (hmmm,
everyone catches fish but you, you loose sixare they just rubbing it my face, or are they
or eight of your most expensive streamers, ittenderizing the meat?)Questioning my decision
rains buckets, and you sink the boat. That'sto become a fly fisherman, I head over to the
right; I got skunked at Steamboat Lake overdock to pick up my 5 year-old son and a fresh
Memorial  weekend.styro of night crawlers. I'll let my son fish
the meat before I crumble and load one up on
I was determined to show those meat huckersthe spinner myself. Surprising, no luck with
(worms and power bait) that a well chosen andthe meat either, and hear comes the rain. I
strategically placed fly was as effective asthrow my arms up and ponder my karma activity
anything a conventional fisherman could loadof  the  past  year.
on a hook and hang under a bobber. Well, no
such  luck,  I  got  stomped.We charge for shore as the lake turns to
white caps. The rain and lightning moves in
The fish were rising like mad on a midgefast. Did I mention that we got the boat for
hatch, and I threw everything in the box atfree and have no clue what to do in the rain?
them. I could swear I saw a hefty rainbowWe pull the boat up close to shore near our
nudge my fly to the side to eat the naturalcamp, outside of the no-wake zone. We leave
laying only centimeters from my damn nearall  of our gear and head for the soggy camp.
perfect replica. As we watched the group of
12 year olds add another 18" fish to theirWell, apparently it's best to leave your boat
stringer (full loaded, I might add) I decidedin protected cove in the no wake zone. From
it must be a lake thing. I don't fish lakeswhat we could tell, our boat was hammered
often.with 300 to 400 gallons of water from the
waves and boat wakes from boaters rushing
I usually have good luck with a streamer inback to the dock. Yes, it sank in 18 inches
faster moving water, so I head for one on theof water. I didn't realize a boat could sink
several tributaries hoping to get the boat upin 18" of water! All of our gear is floating
far enough to make a make a few good casts.around the shore. The gas tank and gear which
No such luck, here comes the wind. Determinedincluded an Orvis waste pack with hmmmm, some
and frustrated, I proceed to lose several of500 plus flies. Every box any fly had to be
my best streamers in the dense shrubberyopened and dried on the dashboards of our
surrounding the mouth of the creek (can'ttrucks.
retrieve them since the current is too strong
to  get  the  boat any further up the creek).We bail the boat, load the truck and haul our
soggy  gear  and  crippled  egos  back  home.
On the way back to camp we are passed by a
couple of boats with stringers of fishNext memorial day, it's back to the river!!!



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