Happy New Year Fish Explorers!
Blog by: Matt Snider , CO 1/4/2016 (Return to blogs)
Happy new year to all of you - I hope your holidays were fantastic and your fishing phenomenal. We start 2016 as we do most years, by announcing the winners of the Winter Giveaway - which we will do on Wednesday. So stay tuned. It's my favorite time of year, and I hope you win something.
There is plenty of ice fishing going on here in Colorado with the recent cold snap that affected many states. Even on the front range we're seeing really good ice thicknesses. I've been able to get out on the hard stuff a couple of days over the break, trying to get the kids excited about getting out fishing (which is an ongoing challenge) and have had some moderate success. We've fished Sheldon Lk here in FC and up on Cameron pass in a couple of places. Done well enough, but I am still a newbie at this game. Best news is I think I got my wife somewhat hooked into the concept after she caught a few fish.
So slowly I forge my way into the ice sport. At the same time, days are getting longer which gets me all warm and fuzzy thinking about spring, and especially heading to Canada this summer for muskie.
And it also occurred to me that this year will mark our tenth birthday here at FishExplorer. April 2006 we came online. Need to think about celebrating that somehow.
In the meantime get out and fish and have a blast, and check in Wednesday for the Winter Giveaway winners announcement.
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Comments
Goosehunter82
01.04.16 1:53 PM
What did we do without fxr. This is a great site with great people. Thanks for all you do for us!
Ajax5240
01.04.16 2:37 PM
Thanks for having the initiative and desire to start the site almost 10 years ago! I know it has helped me grow drastically as an angler, and also is a terrific feeling when I hear that the info I share has helped others. Keep up the great work, I look forward to being part of the site for many years to come!
bron
01.04.16 7:18 PM
Thank you the Winter Giveaway and for starting the site sir! Ive learned alot and made some great friends thru Fish Explorer. Id only ice fished once before I found the site and thanks to the friends Ive made here Im well equiped and ice savvy. Please do an anniversary get together!
About the Author
Matt Snider is a lifelong fly fisherman who has turned his attention to the "other species" of Colorado, namely any non-trout species. Having caught multiple warmwater species in Colorado on the fly in Colorado, Matt built FishExplorer as a means for anglers to maintain updated lake conditions, an element he finds critical in catching fish and enjoying our resources. An advocate of alternative fly fishing and fisheries preservation, Matt is an avid wiper and muskie fisherman traveling with boat in tow in pursuit of these hard-to-find fish. If a fish is willing to eat something, his bet is that it will eat a fly...