Fly Fishing South Park, Colorado & The Uncompahgre River

Hey everyone. Here is a quick update of my fishing adventures of the past two weekends. Two weekends ago I attended a USA Youth Fly Fishing Team clinic in Hartsel, CO. This clinic qualified me for Nationals which will be held in PA in a couple of weeks. Some of my friends who I compete with were there so we all swapped flies and fished a bunch together which, of course, was great fun. Our instructor, Dave Pehle, was a pleasure to be around and had lots of great information to give to us students. We covered everything from Spanish Nymphing to the Czech Nymphing style and had many mini competitions so we could get a better taste for completion fishing. I have been fishing with these European methods now for quite some time and they have really helped to improve my catch rate so it is defiantly something fun and worth while to learn. Now this past weekend I was able to get out and fish the Pa-Co-Chu-Puk section of the Uncompahgre River for some rainbow and cut throat trout. I was able to get ten fish in a three hour time frame which was a great deal of fun. Seven of those fish came on small midge adults (size 24)! When I was nymphing I caught three cutthroats and all of them were very brightly colored. It was a lot of fun to be able to sight fish to all of the little guys that I caught. I am definitely looking forward to my next trip back.

Here are some pictures of all my recent adventures. Enjoy!

The group from the USYFF clinic held at Hartsel Springs Ranch in South Park, Colorado

Listening to the coach!

Time to practice what we learned.

Success!!!

Connor, Cam and Charlie having a tying-fest.

Nymph fishing the Uncompahgre River below Ridgeway Reservoir.

An awesome cutthroat.