Even before bulldozers, settlers along Colorado streams quarried rocks and sand for construction of roads and buildings. Surprisingly, many resulting holes in the ground hold decent populations of fish, and some are open to the public.
Options for fine fishing do exist in our gravel ponds and irrigation/water storage lakes, but anyone who tells you to just pull up to a given pond and start fishing doesn’t really care whether you catch anything.
This is an intro to beginners wanting to get into fly fishing and have no gear. Here is a list of the basic essentials, and some tips on what to look for.
Introducing a series of blogs designed for beginner anglers since a lot of people are now getting out for the very first time or picking up the sport again.
Truth be told, I was a much better fisherman at age 11 than at 30 or 40. Here's how you, too, can recover angling skills too often wasted on the young.
