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Offline Wlfgng

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« on: August 09, 2002, 10:37:21 AM »
12,000' that is.

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Offline Ripsnort

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« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2002, 10:45:42 AM »
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12,000' that is.



Salida is near there? I recognize the peaks of some of the "Fourteeners"
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« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2002, 10:50:03 AM »
Did ya ever read Chuck Yeager's account of how he illegally stocked golden trout in the Sierra's of California? IIRC it lead to the worst crash of his career.
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« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2002, 10:53:36 AM »
That's a wild brook trout.  I'd like to hear the story though!

yeah. that's Independance pass and I'm looking south.
(just South of Aspen)

Not bad for a guy from Washington :)

A lot of those are fourteeners.
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« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2002, 10:59:37 AM »
I am officially jealous. Thanks for the pic! Think I'll go mow the yard.
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« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2002, 11:03:12 AM »
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That's a wild brook trout.  I'd like to hear the story though!

yeah. that's Independance pass and I'm looking south.
(just South of Aspen)

Not bad for a guy from Washington :)

A lot of those are fourteeners.
 


Thks :)

Incidently, if you ever make it out this way, during summer, we'll take a 8 hour drive to my property in Montana, at 7,000 feet, two mountain lakes, largest trout I've caught was 9 lbs (They begin to look like salmon at that size)...smallest was 22 inches.  Pretty much "one cast- one catch" on a partly cloudy day.  It'll ruin you for life.  Step dad has his own private pond stocked with Grayling, Brookies, rainbow.
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« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2002, 11:07:28 AM »
I'm leaving in 2 hours to go to the coast to catch redfish and sand trout :D  Hopefuly that tropical storm didn't screw up the fishing....



nice pics btw
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« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2002, 11:12:39 AM »
I'm there Rip!
man I love those days.. we call it 'stupid' fishing because you don't need the skill it takes on a sunny day.

Udie, I'm jealous.  




We have a Green Drake hatch going on this month.  It's been awesome.  

This is by no means a large fish for the area.. merely a really awesome wild one.  Love the colors but the pic doesn't really do it justice since it was so cloudy that day.  
Probably head up there Sunday if the weather is better.
Damn near snowed on us the day of the pic.
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« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2002, 11:28:24 AM »
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Love the colors but the pic doesn't really do it justice since it was so cloudy that day.  
Probably head up there Sunday if the weather is better.Damn near snowed on us the day of the pic.


Wild brookies hold their color so much better than hachery brookies! Beautiful.
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Offline Elfenwolf

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« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2002, 12:26:41 PM »
Toad may I borrow your lawnmower when you're done?

It looks beautiful there Wlfgng. I'm jealous.
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Offline Wlfgng

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« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2002, 12:34:30 PM »
You guys come visit.  I live in a house on the river (Roaring Fork), it's becoming my friends' 'Fishing Cabin'.
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Offline Kratzer

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« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2002, 04:59:38 PM »
I'll be there tomorrow...  being from Wyoming till just a couple years ago, I have a hard time knowing where to go in Colorado, and in not finding a couple thousand people wherever I end up. :(
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« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2002, 05:02:03 PM »
Ah, no wonder... you are way the hell west of here (Boulder).  Find me a job... preferably a job fly fishing. :)
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« Reply #13 on: August 09, 2002, 05:41:07 PM »
yeah, I left the front range a few years back.

As I got older, quality of life became more and more important.
Still, come on up.  I'll put ya'll up at my place and we can fish in my back yard (Roaring Fork River).
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« Reply #14 on: August 09, 2002, 05:44:21 PM »
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Salida is near there? I recognize the peaks of some of the "Fourteeners" [/B]


Here's a live cam of one of the largest, Mt. Princeton.

http://www.mtprincetoncam.org

One of 13 in the county.

dh<---lives near Salida in Buena Vista
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