Fly Tying Demo at Laughing Grizzly Fly Shop & More Fishing...

Last weekend I had a fly tying demo and book signing at Laughing Grizzly Fly Shop in Longmont, CO. My dad and I perform some crazy one day trips over to the Denver area and although you get a little tired with driving all day it is usually a good time. This trip was certainly worth it. The turnout at the shop was huge, more than thirty people, and it was great to see so many kids there. I cranked out some different streamer patterns and some of my favorite competition patterns. I canâ??t wait to get to go back and do another tying demo for them next year. Itâ??s going to be great!

Monday night I went down to the Uncompahgre River through Montrose to fish with some of those competition style flies. I managed to land two and hook a total of four which, for all the bad weather we had been having, and not much practice, was pretty good. I am certainly looking forward to things warming up so that we can have some monster big days on the water.

Last night I fished the Gunnison River at the East Portal. Hooked seven and landed four. The best fish was a rainbow about 16-17 inches. A size 16 beadhead Pheasant Tail nymph did the trick pretty well.

Here are some pictures from the past two fly fishing excursions. Enjoy.

Tying at Laughing Grizzly Fly Shop.

The shop has a cool video set up for everyone to watch the tiers.

Fishing on the Uncompahgre River near my house.

Success!!!

Gunnison River Rainbows are incredible looking fish.

One more big Gunnison River Rainbow.

Going back...