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.

I have been reading this book called, "Czech Nymph and Other Related Fishing Methods", on Czech Nymphing and so far I have learned a lot. It has been really fun to go out try the Czech Nymphing techniques then come home and do some more reading and then go out a week later or so and see how much you have progressed. So far I have learned about Czech Nymphing leaders, rods, techniques, and flies. This book has been a huge help as I have been trying to learn how to do this amazing fishing style. Here are a few pictures of the book and some of the flies I have been tying and fishing with. Keep checking my site for new updates on this book and all kinds of other stuff. Now let%u219s go fly fishing!

Here are few of the flies I have been tying and catching quite a few fish on.

This past weekend my dad, my sister Olivia, and I went fishing on the Uncompahgre River for rainbow and brown trout. Lately I have been doing some reading on how to Czech Nymph and so I decided to try this new technique for the first time that day. We brought two rods so that we could have two different rigs, one was a dry-dropper rig and the other was a Czech Nymph rig. Once we got to the river my dad and I rigged up the rods, put Olivia in the baby backpack carrier and headed out to the river. The first spot we fished was a deep run in which I caught many fish on the dry-dropper rig. My dad made two casts with the Czech Nymph rig and caught one fish per cast. After that he gave me the rod and gave me a few tips as well! I ended up hooking about ten fish but only caught one. For the rest of the day we swapped rigs every few spots and did pretty well. Towards the end of the day I put on a streamer and started to fish back to the car. There was a little water down below where we parked that looked very promising so I started to fish it. After five minutes, I realized that a Czech Nymph rig would work amazing in that spot. So once again I changed my rig and on the very first cast I hooked a large brown trout that was the biggest fish I had hooked that day. It got away though after a few jumps but in a few casts I was hooked up again and landed a nice little rainbow trout. I had many more hook ups but could not prevail. My dad and I took a few pictures and I would like to share some of them with you.

Remember to keep on checking my site for new stuff all the time.

Fishing a Stimulator and Beadhead Baetis Nymph Dry-Dropper rig.

A Rainbow caught on the dry/dropper rig.

Czech nymphing a nice riffle.

Fall is such a beautiful time of year to go fly fishing.

It makes it even better when you are catching fish.

Fishing some deeper water with using a pair of Czech nymphs.

This Rainbow really liked my tungsten Beadhead Hares Ear as the point fly in my rig.

What a great way to end the day...casting streamers!!!

This spider is living on the back porch of my house. It has it's web close to our back porch light and eats a bunch of the moths that come to the light each night. Sometimes my dad and I catch a moth and throw them into the spiders web so we can watch it come grab them and wrap them up in his silk. Then by morning he has eaten them! I thought this would be a fun project to try and tie a realistic fly of this guy. I watched Rich Bogardus tie realistic spider pattens a couple of years ago when I tied flies at the International Fly Tying Symposium in Somerset, New Jersey. I hope all you fly tyers out there try this one.

This past weekend my family and I went to Aspen, Colorado for my sister's gymnastics meet. We decided to go up a day early so that my dad and I could do some fishing. My dad and I fished the Roaring Fork River at Basalt. We started off using a dry-dropper rig and my dad caught a nice rainbow trout then switched to a Czech Nymph rig. I also had to switch to a nymph rig because of the deep water. After a little while my dad caught another fish and I switched one last time to a sculpin pattern and ended up hooking a few fish, one of which broke me off. While I was still trying to figure out what the fish were eating my dad was catching tons of fish. Towards the end of the day my dad let me use his rig and once again I hooked but did not land any fish. I was a little disappointed that I did not land a fish but it was still cool to have gotten to fish a new river!

The next day my sister Ava had her gymnastics meet and did really good. It was a very exciting weekend and I would like to share some photos with you. Hope you enjoy.

Fly Fishing on the Roaring Fork

Fishing streamers in the pocket water.

A very colorful Roaring Fork River rainbow.

Nymph fishing the pockets on the edge of the river.

A Roaring Fork Brown trout.

Another rainbow with amazing colors!