SandBoxBlogs: RealAspen "On the Colorado River with Roaring Fork Anglers"

Tom Boyd:
"NEW CASTLE — A blue-winged olive buzzed close to the water, rode the breeze along the bank, and perched like a trained pet on the thumb of veteran angler John Harcourt.

Harcourt watched it fly away, then called out to his son, Dustin, and his seven-year-old grandson, Drake, who were working an eddy seam just downriver.

“We might do some dry-fly fishing after all,” he said with the kind of smile that has spring fever written all over it.

The terms “dry fly” and “March fishing” aren’t often mixed together in discussions of Colorado’s rivers and streams, but along the wide-open, easily accessible stretches of the Colorado River from Glenwood Springs to Rifle, a sunny March afternoon feels like a mid-summer’s day to a fisherman, especially if he’s got a healthy dose of cabin fever...."  (Read more?  Click title)

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SandBox Comments: SkyHi Daily "Kristen Lodge: Finding a new passion on Grand County rivers, in all seasons"

"I dusted off my cross country gear and my super pass just arrived in the mail, but I have no plans whatsoever to stow away my fishing gear,” said Jeanette McQuade of Fraser. “The tailwaters are open all winter long and provide year-long fishing opportunities...”
(Kristen Lodge)


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