This past Saturday my family and I participated in the Black Canyon Fly Fishing Show in Montrose, Colorado. My sisters, Ava and Vivian tied flies with me and my dad. They tied foam frogs and lady bugs!

I tied in the fly tying video theater and did a program about my fly fishing trips to Japan. It was great to see a bunch of my friends from different places in Colorado and Utah.

Here are a few pictures from the show. This coming Saturday I will be tying flies and signing books and DVDs at Western Anglers in Grand Junction, Colorado from 10:00AM until noon. Hope to see you there.

My sisters Ava and Vivian having fun tying flies.

My youngest sister Olivia checking out a foam frog my sister Ava tied.

My friend Geoff Samples tying flies at the show.

Mr. Jim Aubrey from Durango, Colorado was tying up some very cool baby brook trout streamers.

I will be at Bass Pro Shops in Denver, Colorado this Saturday, February 27th to tie flies and sign books in the Authors Corner. I will be at the store for the annual Bass Pro Spring Classic Fishing event. I had a great time there last year and I am really looking forward to being there again this year. See you there so we can talk about fly fishing and fly tying!

Click here to check out the event schedule.

Yesterday my mom took me to Gunnison to tie some flies with a friend of mine, Merne Judson. I am going to be doing some fly tying for the fly business he is starting. While we were in Gunnison my dad took my two youngest little sisters fishing on the Uncompahgre River near our house. Check out a few of the pictures my dad took and a couple I took of the upper Gunnison River (still frozen!) and Blue Mesa Reservoir.

All bundled up and ready to fish!

Vivian watching her pink Thingamabobber.

One of the Rainbow's that Vivian caught.

Ready for release.

The frozen upper Gunnison River at the town of Gunnison.

Winter time at Blue Mesa Reservoir.

Last Saturday my dad and I did a fly tying demo at Cimarron Creek Fly Shop here in Montrose. It was a lot of fun. We focused on tying weighted nymphs. Here are a few pictures. Hope you like them.

Oh yeah, I fished a little over the weekend too!

I will be tying flies at Cimarron Creek Fly Shop in Montrose, Colorado on Saturday, February 6th from 10:00AM until 12:00PM. I will be tying with my dad and we will be tying various nymph patterns and discussing how we like to nymph fish in different water conditions. I will also be signing my books and showing my new DVD "A Kid's Guide to Fly Fishing". It will be hitting the fly shops in a couple of weeks. Hope to see you there.

I had a great January fishing the Uncompahgre River at different places near my house. All nymph fishing and lots of health fun rainbows, browns and cutthroats. I have done good fishing a two fly rig and a strike indicator as well as trying some of European nymph fishing techniques. Here are a few pictures from some of my trips.

Fly fishing with my little sister on January 2nd.

Little sister Vivian with a nice trout!

Amazing colors on this cutthroat.

Releasing a pretty rainbow below Ridgeway Reservoir.

Fishing very close to my house on the Uncompahgre River.

My friend Bob Burk. The owner of Cimarron Creek Fly Shop in Montrose, Colorado. He took me to his private water on the Uncompahgre River. It was a great time!

It does not get any better than catching healthy trout during the winter.

This Saturday, at 12:00 PM until 2:00 PM, I will be doing a book signing and fly tying demo at Cimarron Creek fly shop in Montrose, Colorado. I will be signing my two books, "A Kid's Guide to Fly Fishing" and "A Kid's Guide to Fly Tying". We will also be showing my new DVD "A Kid's Guide to Fly Fishing". It will be for sale in a couple of weeks. This same DVD is being included in the Ross Journey Youth Fly Fishing Outfits.

Be sure to stop by and check it out!

It has been a while since I posted a blog entry. November was a very busy month with school, swimming and of course fly fishing and fly tying. I had some fun days on the rivers near my home in Montrose, Colorado. We had great fall weather the whole month of November and the fish were hungry. Here are a few pictures from my fishing trips. Hope you like them.

I have some other exciting news to share in the next few days so keep checking back!

A nice looking Kokanee salmon.

My little sister trying to fight a Kokanee salmon with her cast on her left arm!

A nice Kokanee just before releasing it.

I love fall fly fishing!

Fighting a fish just before sundown.

My new fishing buddy Geoff Samples rigging up to catch some fish.

A couple of rainbows from this past Sunday on the Uncompahgre River near my home.

It has be a while since I added a new fly tying tutorial and I just added tutorial for one of my favorite streamer patterns. The fly is a Chuck's Sculpin. This is my version of the fly that is one of Chuck Stranahan's flies. This is a good streamer pattern to learn some tying techniques and it catches a lot of fish too! You can see the step-by-step fly ting insrtuctions for this pattern on the fly tying tutorial page of my site. Have fun tying this one!

Now that the snow started falling here in Montrose I will be working on more fly tying tutorials very soon. Keep checking back for new stuff on my site.

This past weekend my dad and I went fishing on a stretch of the South Platte River called the Dream Stream. We left our house at 3:30 AM and got to the river at about 7:00 AM. The reason for getting up so early was so that we could be the first ones on the river but obviously we didn't leave early enough. We ended up being the 7th and 8th anglers on the water. Once my dad pulled up in the parking lot and parked we made world record time getting our gear on. (The temperature at the time was twenty-nine degrees Fahrenheit.) Once we were geared up we headed out to the river. While we were walking I rigged up my rod with a Red Copper John and an egg pattern. The second I reached the river I started scanning for fish. In a couple of minutes I had found a nice Kokanee salmon and started to fish to him but after the end of my first drift my dad called to me and told me to come to him. Once I got to where he was I saw what he was hollering about. There in front of me was a large Kokanee salmon and on my first cast I hooked and landed the fish! The fish weighed about 4 lbs. My dad took a few pictures then I released the fish back to the river, then we headed up stream to find new water. A few pockets later I found a nice deep run that looked very fishy. On my second or third cast I hooked and landed a beautiful 5 lb. cut-bow (a cross between a rainbow trout and a cutthroat trout). After a few pictures of my biggest cut-bow ever I released it. Once I released that fish everything slowed down. My dad caught a few more large browns and we did some underwater photography with my little point and shoot camera. I also caught a few browns that were no more than seven inches long! Towards the end of the day my dad spotted a brown that was very large and let me fish to him. After maybe fifteen casts I hooked upon the fish. At that point the fish freaked out and gave me one of the coolest fights I ever had with a river fish. For about three minutes he ran me up and down the run. When I finally landed him I saw that he was a twenty-five inch 6-6.5 lb. brown trout which was my biggest brown trout ever! Since it was my largest brown we had to take pictures and I did some underwater photography. By then the fish was pretty tuckered out so I released him back into the river. That fish ended our day on the Dream Stream.

I have made three trips to the Dream Stream with my dad and that was by far the best trip yet. Here are a few photos from the day. Enjoy!

The Dream Stream as the sun was just coming up.

Just landed a nice kokanee salmon.

Kokanee are one of my favorite fish because they have some big teeth and crazy colors.

A big cutbow from the Dream Stream. It liked the #16 Red Copper John.

My dad even catches a fish or two once in a while!

Fall browns are so pretty.

Check out this hook jaw!!!

Ready for the release.

One of largest brown trout I have ever caught.