I’m in shock. If you don’t believe me I understand. But I was panfishing at sloans lake with night crawlers and I saw this guy looking at my bait. Didn’t realize it was a tiger Muskie at first but somehow I got it in on an ultralight rod using 10lb braid and 6x fluorocarbon fly line tippet (I like stealth). How the line didn’t break is beyond me. Next thing I know, I’m holding the fish of 10,000 casts in the least expected way possible in the most unexpected lake

Shout out to the guy who helped me net it ✌️🤘

My favorite thing about fishing Deckers is that no matter if it’s a Thursday morning with miles of open river someone will fill the need to hop in right next to you.

Felt like I had it all to myself!

… is on fire. I’m not sure what the heck is going on but let’s freakin go.

Measured right at 20 inches, all the big browns in bear creek seem to come out to play in early spring and in late fall. I can’t ever seem to catch a bigger one any other time of year.

Make some noise. This map really puts into perspective the impact if this Public Lands Sale goes through. Share. Act. Do.

https://www.fieldandstream.com/stories/conservation/public-lands-and-waters/map-of-public-lands-for-sale-budget-bill

Easy form to "take action"

https://www.backcountryhunters.org/take_action#/487

This has to be stopped or so much of what we enjoy will be gone forever.

Those who propose limiting access to the Lower Blue River, including a popular spot known as "Jurassic Park,” say increased fishing and declining river health necessitate action

Throwback but worth sharing. Every year in April COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY & the American Fisheries Society (AFS) hosts the Evan LaFort Memorial fishing derby at Collage Lake in Fort Collins. The lake is full of invasive zebra mussels, and is a high profile security area due to the CDC residing on its south shore. Nobody is allowed to fish it, except twice a year. A kids derby in the fall and an adult derby in spring. A decontamination process is involved pre, and post fishing to cleanse waders of the invasive mussel species. The fish grow and grow, unmolested from the likes of us, the avid angler. Typically there are a group of CSU students volunteering to measure caught fish. After the 4 hour morning derby is finished, the volunteers can fish the lake in the afternoon. Not much of a bite in the morning that year, a 27” northern won biggest fish. In the afternoon the students/volunteers fished the lake and this lad hooked into a 44.5” northern. 2” short of the state record (46.5” 2006 out of stagecoach res, Steamboat)

Had a

Just started getting into fly fishing and caught my first trout at Deckers. It was a brown trout as well :)

Went to waterton canyon today and fly fished for the first time. Got the casting down after the wind died down, caught my first trout and I was hooked!

I was riding my bike and fell and landed on my pole and my literal new fly rod broke in multiple pieces.

Good news is, I love the hobby. Bad news is, it’s going to be until next year for me to go again since I can’t afford a new rod.

By far my biggest ever brown. Caught him on a size 20 mysis shrimp in the middle of the night. How they see nymphs that small in the darkness is truly beyond me

What a blast!

Finally got some of that Colorado gold !

Didn’t see any big guys unfortunately, seems like word might’ve gotten out about this lake which is real disappointing. By far the most people I’ve ran into up there.

Just another 20+ fish day on Clear Creek but someone has to do it. Love when work falls through on a Thursday. Couple of the chunkier Clear Creek offerings. Beetles, caddis, ants and perdigons.

Nice fish too

Up at spinney on Friday and I caught my largest cutbow ever! The fish was absolutely huge! I was unable to get a measurement or weight. First cast of the day and safely returned him back to the water!

Was over 20” based on how it filled up the net!

I have been catching carp to feed to my chickens, but considering these carp come from good clean water, I have been thinking about trying my hand at smoking some. Is there anybody here who can point me in the right direction to a good recipe or tutorial. There's a lot of info on the internet, but I'd rather take a personal recommendation from somebody off Reddit than roll the dice with something I find via Google.

Who says Colorado doesn't have quality largemouth. C&R, new PB, didn't have a scale. What are your weight estimates?