Stop Dreamin'...The Browns Are In!

Randy Hicks and Brian Harris of Rocky Mountain Anglers (Boulder, Colorado) left the house early yesterday morning and headed south...on the hunt for big browns! And they found them. There were a few other fishermen down on the Platte...shufflin' around in the gravel looking for redds. But the big fish had just gotten there, so they were only in the deep pools. The redd raiders were coming up empty. Randy and Brian, however, were keepin' it real. Nothing real big, but eight or so fish over 20 inches. Also of note: #22 tricos between 9:00 and noon some smaller browns and cutts were on them heavy.

City Slicker

You can take the trout bum out of Junction, but you can't take the Junction out of the trout bum. Yuk, yuk, yuk. Anyway. Patrick Knackendoffel moved out to the Front Range a couple years ago from Grand Junction to go to school and guide for us. Patrick and I drove into downtown Denver the other day to scout for carp in the South Platte river...but got side tracked by big trout! You may be surprised at the quality of the fish in the middle of the city! If you live in or near Denver you ought to be involved, or at least aware of the efforts of the Denver chapter of Trout Unlimited. They are investing a lot of time and energy into that stretch of river.