Fly fishing

[Fueco]

I caught my second cutthroat (Colorado River Cutthroat Trout) yesterday on a stream whose name I won’t reveal at about 9,000’ elevation.

 

[Despos]

My niece is a guide and teaches fly fishing in Colorado.

https://www.instagram.com/desposca/

 

[romafan]

It's funny how fish Appreciation has evolved. It used to be you had to wait for the bi-monthly handful of publications (Fly Fisherman, Fly Rod & Reel, etc.) to get your fix. Then came the advance of DVDs featuring exotic fishing locales and amazing fish. And now FB & instagram are filled with an embarrassment of riches as practically every guide is posting their prize catches daily.

 

[Fueco]

It's funny how fish Appreciation has evolved. It used to be you had to wait for the bi-monthly handful of publications (Fly Fisherman, Fly Rod & Reel, etc.) to get your fix. Then came the advance of DVDs featuring exotic fishing locales and amazing fish. And now FB & instagram are filled with an embarrassment of riches as practically every guide is posting their prize catches daily.

You’re just now noticing this? Appreciation Appreciation went this way before anything else.

 

[romafan]

Well I purposefully left it to others better qualified to recognize the parallel - I am old, happily married and essentially computer illiterate. I DID make the pages of Fly Fisherman about 30 years ago: each issue they would print a page called the 'Catch & Release Gallery' consisting of pictures sent in by readers. It was a sweet brown I caught on the Big Hole - maybe my most memorable fish and a national ff magazine saw fit to print it - I felt like such a stud!! Of course many fewer people fished back then - for all I know they printed every picture that got sent in.

 

[Despos]

Congrats on your catch and the photo. Did you save a copy of the magazine?

 

[romafan]

Yes, now that you mention it, but we recently moved my mom into a senior community and sold my childhood home - I knew there was a reason I didn't feel quite right tossing all those stacks of old fishing magazines ! Now that I think about it the magazine was called Flyfishing, and it helped to convert my wife (then girlfriend) into a fisherman. She caught a very similar sized brown (just under 30") on her first trip to Montana and I duly sent in the photo to Flyfishing. Back then the only women you saw in fishing magazines were Joan Wulff and Cathy Beck, so of course they put her in the next issue!

 

[Despos]

@romafan
Googled Joan Wulff and Cathy Beck. Impressive bio's.
Didn't know my niece was a flyfishing instructor/guide until I stumbled across her IG. She quit a corporate gig and decided to make her way fishing. Kudos!
Shame the magazines are gone

 

[romafan]

Yes, congratulations to your niece on following her dream. It is a tough way to make a living but highly rewarding once you've got some traction. I have not given up hope on the magazines - I have a feeling they would have been separated out from the stacks and stored in curated memento files somewhere - there are still some places to search!

 

[lefty]

Joan continues to runs her fly fishing school on the Beaverkill.

Here's Lee with Curt Gowdy in Labrador. Nine days after Lee got his pilot's license he was solo flying to Newfoundland to fish.



lefty

 

[romafan]

So great - fly-in your canoe! Look at those fish!! Lee's life is pretty amazing to contemplate. Born in Valdez, Alaska; arrives in pre-depression Manhattan w/ $100 in his pocket; struggling artist; becomes friends w/ Dan Bailey; marries 1st wife in Greenwich CT; becomes desk jockey; more desk work in Kentucky(!); whole new career as outdoorsman/writer/fisherman; marries soulmate who is casting champion; reigns as king of his chosen profession; checks out piloting his own plane @ 86.

 

[lefty]

There’s a soon-to-be-released documentary on him. And Joan has hundreds of hours of footage that she doesn’t know what do with. Hope it isn’t tossed.

lefty

 

[Big A]

Since this thread was raised from the dead ....

This was pre Covid, hope to get back out to Utah soon. It's my favorite place to fish.

 

[romafan]

Nice Big A! I've never fished in Utah (never been there, except an airport!!) - Is that the Green? I know nothing about the state except LDS/Park City-Snowbird/Uinta mtns where a buddy used to go - looks a little chilly but nice looking 'bow - luv that coloration w/ the olive flanks & deep magenta gill plate!!

 

[Big A]

Nice Big A! I've never fished in Utah (never been there, except an airport!!) - Is that the Green? I know nothing about the state except LDS/Park City-Snowbird/Uinta mtns where a buddy used to go - looks a little chilly but nice looking 'bow - luv that coloration w/ the olive flanks & deep magenta gill plate!!

this is actually the Provo a little ways below the dam.