Time on the Water

When I'm not on the water guiding, I'm probably on the water with the Revenge Run crew or, if our days off haven't lined up, out on the water on a solo mission.  Most days I am fishing until it gets dark sometime around or after 9 pm.  That means I'm home most days close to 10 pm for a late dinner and a quick shower before heading straight to bed.

Sun setting on a great day fishing Cebolla Creek with Revenge Run

Sun setting over Cebolla Creek

Colored-up Cebolla rainbow

Afternoon off along the Lake Fork

Beautiful brown

Day off on the Lake Fork

Lake Fork of the Gunnison River

Nice brown on a solo mission on the Lake Fork

Lake Fork Brown Trout

Sunset over the Lake Fork

Early Season Fishing

I was only in Lake City for a few days at the end of May before making it back to Dallas for a wedding, but I made those days count by getting out on the water for all of them.

Mitchell with a really big, really old brown

The Revenge Run crew chasing down a monster

Doubled up!

Amazing colors on this 'bow

I had a couple hogs on this gigantic streamer on around Lake City.  Somehow, all of them got away.  I included a smaller wooly bugger for comparison.

Headed back to Texas with the sun setting behind me

Floating the Gunnison

September was especially rainy in Lake City, and the constant rains often left the Lake Fork too murky to fish.  On this beautiful morning, we headed to the Gunnison River for clearer water.

Morning at Lake San Cristobal

I don't think I've ever seen the Lake Fork this murky before

Floating down the Gunnison River

 

Fish on!

A smiling 21-inch Gunni Rainbow

Back in Dallas

After leaving for the mountains at the beginning of June, I didn't make it back to Dallas until late August for Matt and Jenni's engagement pool party and Matt's bachelor party.  I was disappointed to hear I was missing a mild summer by Texas standards.  I'm sure the next summer I'm in Dallas will have plenty of record-breaking heat.

The guests of honor asked that we play twiggy--a very sophisticated pool game--to keep everyone entertained.

From the reactions captured in this picture, I'm guessing someone (probably me) just belly flopped: great success!

Dakota was happy I was home to do some dog sitting.

I was having fly fishing withdrawals, but an evening catching bass on the fly held me over until I got back to Colorado.  Kevin caught the biggest of the trip with this monster at dusk.

Got to catch a Ranger's game complete with a walk-off game winner from Elvis

Internet Famous: John Doumany

Last Day Fishing Revenge Run

The last day the Revenge Run fly fishing crew had together for the summer was bittersweet.  The fishing was great, but it was sad knowing we wouldn't be out on our favorite stretch of river again until next summer.

Peter shows off a nice brown.  One of his earlier fish was so heavy it bent my net.

Fishing the Cave Pool above Revenge Run.  We hooked some monsters in this stretch this summer.

Smilin' Rainbow

Mitchell's cousin caught his first fish on the fly

Mitchell fishes a nice run

Peter with a really dark rainbow

Nice snake river cutthroat

Great brown

Sunset on our last day

We weren't going to waste any daylight--which meant we were heading back to the truck after dark.