Colorado Explorer ACTIVITIES
Fly fi shing in winter?
By Linda DuVal Y
ou’ve been cooped up over the holidays and you’re dying to get out of the house. How ’bout a little fl y fi shing?.
“It’s a great cure for cabin fever,” says
Tad Howard, owner of Colorado Trout Hunters, which supplies guides for fi shermen. “The rivers aren’t crowded and there’s lots of solitude.” It’s also a good time to land that
record fi sh. “It can be 20 below and you can
catch a monster trout,” says Karen Christopherson of the Colorado Fishing Network, an organization that supplies maps and other information about fl y fi shing in the state. Obviously, many streams are frozen in
winter, which is why year-round anglers head for the tailwaters below dams. “The water doesn’t freeze there and it’s
nutrient-rich,” Christopherson says. “They just hang out and get fat.” Many tailwaters are very accessible,
they say. Try the Big Thompson River in Estes Park, the Arkansas River just below the Pueblo Reservoir dam, or the Yampa River in Steamboat Springs, for example. Or check out the Blue River that runs
through Silverthorne, Christopherson says. “If you get too cold, you can go shop- ping (at the outlet stores) and warm up.” She also likes to “ski a little, fi sh a
Though winter sounds like a strange time to fi sh, there often is open water where the fi sh gather just waiting for an intrepid angler.
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little,” and sometimes goes to Aspen, where she skis in the morning, fi shes the Fryingpan River in the afternoon. “It’s perfect,” she adds. For more information, visit
www.coloradotrouthunters.com or http://coloradofi
shing.net.
www.AAA.com
© Tad Howard
© Tad Howard
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