It’s hard to forget your first trout on a fly. For me, it happened over twenty years ago on a camping trip with my family along the Upper Conejos River, a high-elevation stream in Southern Colorado where the water runs…
Arriving in the Dalton area of the Pecos on a Friday afternoon the sky was clear…except for the hundreds of big black stoneflies buzzing just overhead! I got excited rushed down to the river knocking into some brush on the…
There were spider webs in my wading boot, a cartoonish symbol of the first outing of the year. The RG Quartzite Access on a weekday in March promised me open space and I had that little-boy anticipation feeling in my…
It started like any other winter fly fishing day: indicator, weight, double nymph rig, and the search for a good run. A couple of nice rainbows were hooked and then lost in the fast-moving current—a promising start. But around 11…
I have too many fond memories of the Pecos River to count on both hands and both feet. Growing up in Santa Fe, it was the river my father took me to the most because it was the closest. He…
It was a beautiful late September morning, cold enough to numb the fingers managing the fly line. Gary Moran and I were in for a two-day float with our About Trout guide, James Garrettson, and had just shoved off into…
Those who only view the park from the highway or drive down to the ranger station have only seen a very small area of the park. The large meadow you see is not the full caldera, which is bounded by the far…
My Stream – A New Feature in the Truchas Newsletter My Stream is a new feature in our Truchas Newsletter, and we encourage submissions from members about fishing on their favorite streams. Please use this first installment as an example of what…