Good hearing from you Allan! I fished that same stream a couple of years ago when I was in lovely CO. That was in October and the Elk were a spectacular sight. I'll never forget the moment I heard noise in the trees and bushes along the stream, and the next thing I saw was one bull and three cows crossing the stream about 10 yards in front of me. Welcome back! Mart
----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Fish" <[email protected]> To: <Recipient List Suppressed:> Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 5:38 PM Subject: [VFB] I'm Back > > My apologies to those of you on multiple lists - you'll get this > multiple times. > a. > > We just got back after a week in bee-yoo-tiful Colorado. We spent > most of the time sight-seeing in the gorgeous Rockies. Saw lots of > wildlife. Not all of it was in the wilderness. There were some > pretty wild looking things roaming the streets of Estes Park over the > weekend. > > On the other hand, there were some truly wild animials right in town. > We were greeted into Estes Park by a herd of about 30 cow elk with > about 20 calves. They were grazing nearly downtown (on the grounds > of the fire station). Although we didn't see any, the local paper > was talking about the many problems they were having with about 10 > black bears roaming the town. > > We got in one fantastic day of fishing on the Big Thompson below the > canyon. Great fishing. Great catching, too. Unfortunately (for my > ego), my wife caught the biggest one (19" rainbow). We mostly caught > rainbows but we each caught a couple of 14-16" browns. She also > hooked into one that was guess-timated to be 5-8 lb., but it decided > to go a different direction and snapped the 7-lb test flourocarbon > leader. > > A stonefly imitation was the killer fly, even though the stonefly > hatch had pretty well ended the week before. ALL fish were on a > heavily weighted stonefly with sili-legs. Now if I can just learn to > tie them before my next trip out there. > > a. > -- > Allan Fish > Greenwood, IN > [email protected] > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
