August 2010

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Fish Tales :: Shop News :: Hook-Ups :: Pro Corner :: Anglers That Care :: The Deep End :: Downstream

Fish Tales

• Customer Pictures Front Range Anglers customers are located in many different countries, and they are generous enough to send us photos which we love to share. If you would like to pass along a favorite shot or two click here
  

• Sometimes It All Comes Together as depicted in a series of photos taken of Bruce Mardick on the Encampment River in Wyoming during July of this year.
  
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• Please remember you can gain fame and fortune (a $20 gift certificate) for submitting a short fishing story along with a photograph that we can include in this newsletter.  Click here to participate

Shop News/Activity

Keep up with what is happening at the busiest shop in Boulder.  Login to our Blog which provides daily information on everything fly fishing. 

• We're turning the old A PlusTransmission Building on Pearl Street into a state of the art Fly Shop.  Just as we do now, we will carry all of the premium gear, offer the largest fly tying and rod component selection on the Front Range, and include larger presentation and seminar areas.  Click on the picture to to the right to see our starting point.  We're targeting November of 2010 for completion.

• Front Range Anglers was selected as one of 8 shops in the country to premier the new line of G Loomis NRX rods.  According to to the G.Loomis development team they are the "best fly rods ever built"

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Hook-Ups

Fly Tying

• I was heading to North Gate Canyon on the Wyoming border and I wanted big stoneflies that sink like a rock in heavy water.  Here was my solution for the trip. 

Getting There 

 
If you want to learn how to tie the
Red Dontastic, keep an eye on the
FRA Blog

Special Features 

• The last time I fished the Fraser was some 20 years ago.  Why so long?  I simply sped past it on the way to the Colorado River or to RMNP.  In mid-July of this year I was destined to spend the better part of a week in Winter Park and the Fraser River came to mind.  My time on the river rekindled my love of this stream  But the sucking sound from the Front Range is growing by the minute.

The Fraser Drainage Map 

 
Tips & Techniques

• Build your own monofilament Furled Leaders by hand.
• So, when are the 8 Best Weeks to Fish Boulder Creek?
• Sometimes it's a matter of how you fish the Damsel Fly.
• Trapper Badovinac guided professionally on the Missouri River for nine years and authored a book titled ‘Fly Fishing Montana’s Missouri River’. Listen in to learn all you need to know about fly fishing one of America’s great rivers.

Newscasts of General Interest

• Colorado Trout Unlimited Statewide Stream Clean-up set for September 18, 2010.
• Colorado Trout Unlimited, in partnership with Boulder-based Upslope Brewery, will host a series of exciting events happening every Wednesday in August.   As part of their "Pints for People" (and rivers) program – Upslope Brewery will donate 25% of the proceeds from sales in their tap room from 4pm-10pm August 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th.  Click here for directions and more info.
• South Platte Carp Slam 2010 is scheduled for August 21 and 22.

 Pro Corner

• Larry Jurgens uncovers a personal treasure - The Old Fly Box.
  
  
• Three Essentials to a Great Day on the River by Hayden Mellsop.  One of these has got to be cold beer.
• There is a certain intimacy of smaller streams and alpine lakes that adds a unique dimension to our experience.  Sure, the fish may be smaller, but a 10" trout in a small stream can be a "trophy".  It's All Relative ...JB

 Anglers That Care

• In October of 2009 we published an article about the Christo and Jeanne-Claude's proposed temporary work of art Over The River, Project on the the Arkansas River.  This is the program where fabric panels will be suspended horizontally above the water during a period of two consecutive weeks between mid-July and mid-August - 2013 at the earliest.  You can now read the EIS on the BLM site and submit comment and/or get involved.  What's the motivation for wrapping one of our best trout streams in fabric?  How about getting a piece of the $12 mil in tourist dollars.  The fact that it disrupts the fishing, has nothing to do with recreation, and hurts many of the outfitters is unfortunate but acceptable to those in a positon to benefit.  By the way most of the construction materials will be left behind...how is that for a slap in the face!
• 20+ Fly Fishing guides that work on the Arkansas River through ArkAnglers are donating a day's income to the Land Trust of the Upper Arkansas.  You can help by booking a trip on the day that has set aside for this event - August 30, 2010
  
  

 The Deep End

 Down Stream (upcoming content)

• Todds Wiggle Minnow is probably one of the best kept secrets in fly fishing.  I've never found any aggressive surface feeding game fish that can ignore it.  But when I ask fly fishermen about it I get a blank stare or the refrain ."Oh you mean the saltwater fly."
• When trout are taking emerging midges just under the surface, how should you respond?
• What is CU accomplishing with its youth program and Trout in the Classroom?
• Is it possible to get to the Bighorn by way of Mount Rushmore?
• What is Tenkara (traditional Japanese method of fly-fishing) - is it really fly-fishing?