There are moments in time that come with feelings of unrest. You cast into a nice deep run for half an hour without any action at all. A total blank. The half hour turns into an hour. Doubt creeps into everything you do, and questions seem to permeate your thoughts…Do I have the right flies? […]
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I don’t know how it happened so fast! First he was there, and so quickly, he is gone. The presentation was perfect. The drift…one of the best of the day! Hell yea, it resulted in a sophisticated, confident take. Even the most elderly, knowledgeable fish would have taken that fly. It was that good! The
This past summer we were in Montrose, CO, home of the National Park known as the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. It is an awe aspiring sight, with canyons as deep as 2,250 feet carved out by the Gunnison River. Getting down to most of the river is no small feat, as down the cliff
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Driving to work the other day, I was listening to my Spotify “daylist.” It is one of those little things I love about Spotify…they make it easy to access music I haven’t heard in a long time. Often, it takes me back to times in my life that aren’t necessarily forgotten, but rather just got
When I first started coming on GFW, I was a drinker. I loved beer and Gin & Tonics. I was also fresh out of college and still thought beer cans, liquor bottles and other drinking accomplishments were the epitome of house decor. I was also a new fledgling reader. The effort of bettering myself had
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As seen in our September 28, 2023 Newsletter – Subscribe Here I recently went camping on BLM land just north of Creede, CO. My wife, daughter and two dogs accompanied me. We found a quaint little creekside fire ring and set up shop for two nights. My daughter is 2.5 years old, and this is her first outing
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There’s something they never tell you about when you become a parent. And even if they did, you can’t understand it’s full affect until you experience it. It’s the time when your child leaves the nest. Whether it comes because they are off to college or off to work a job in another state, it
As featured in our August 17, 2023 Newsletter – Subscribe Here It was early spring time, with runoff just underway making the local rivers higher than normal, but not unfishable yet. This time of year can be a blast, as it affords you the opportunity to get into some great fish on streamers. Most fisherman
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It’s a term used to describe an intense craving, for a drug in its origins. Most people are familiar with it. Being a teacher, I still hear in all kinds of contexts from my middle school students, and I used to say it often growing up in South Florida. So it has stood the test
As seen in our August 10, 2023 Newsletter – Subscribe Here Life is full of distractions. Never ending distractions. Phone notifications, corporate ‘work hours’ that these days seem to run seven days a week, sixteen hours a day. On top of that, juggling a family schedule and all those household chores that seem to melt