Scales, Tail, and Whiskers

Scales

Tail

Whiskers

Not cat whiskers. Cats are the worst. Carp on the other hand....

After plying the urban waters of Denver on the warmer winter days in search of carp, I finally found some that were cruising, mudding, and eating. After missing two hooksets on some slightly larger carp, I finally connected with a 4 to 5 pound common carp. After a couple smaller runs, it found it's way into my Nomad. The next one will be 20 pounds....

A New Addition to the YGF family

YGF has been a little quiet of late. Between working on videos for The Fly Collective, fishing, and taking care a new addition, coming up with new content for the blog has been a slight issue. Said new addition is a now four-month old Border Collie-Lab/German Shepherd-Lab/German Shepherd-Border Collie/Kelpie-Lab/Kelpie-Border Collie (take your pick...only time will tell) mix, my girlfriend and I picked up from a local rescue group in late January. For at least five years, I have been the dog equivalent to the stereotypical baby-crazy woman (or man, I guess) who greets and engages with every random strangers' dog within 500 feet of my person for awkward lengths of dog-Ivan interaction.

Whatever breed Bosley is, he certainly is high energy, intelligent, and friendly. But, like all puppies he is a bit of a $hithead. I am looking forward to sharing the water with the Boz. In his first couple months with us, he has already made it out on the water a couple of times and met a trout or two. Each successive trip out, his interest in my pursuit of trout seems to strengthen. More importantly, he has already shown an impressive amount of respect/fear of the water. I will cultivate that. Here is an excessive photo dump of the Boz dog. Any tips or tricks are welcome in the comments or via email.

Bosley's first day as part of the YGF family

The dog enjoys snow days

Post snow day

One ear up, one ear down. The LL Cool J of ears.

Bosley meets his first trout courtesy of Pinchetruta

YGF and Jr. enjoy some of Colorado's best

The Fly Collective | "Cold Blue Nights"

I am honored to team up with Russell Schnitzer to form The Fly Collective. We have joined forces in an attempt to tell unique and compelling stories within the fly fishing community. One such story, winter night fishing on the Blue River through Silverthorne, is the focus of our first short. We were lucky enough to get connected with Ryan Henderson with Cutthroat Anglers and are proud to present "Cold Blue Nights." Enjoy.

Cold Blue Nights from The Fly Collective on Vimeo.

The Blind Squirrel and Two Nuts

I am that Blind Squirrel. And these are the two nuts I found this past Super Bowl Sunday. As, said Blind Squirrel, I have been hopelessly digging around some of Colorado's productive waters trying to find a nut or two since I moved here in October. Well, with a little help from pinchetruta, I was able to land two nuts, which is one more than John Kruk has.

Nut 1

Nut 2

I'm on the board, Colorado.

22 Inches Short

Confession time: It has been a while since I put out a video. Why? Because I can't put together my very belated holiday/year-end video to my liking. So, with a YGF video drought on the horizon, I threw together this awkward 1980's VHS inspired short of day on the water with Russ of SchnitzerPHOTO fame. As detailed last week, we suffered some defeats at the mouths of some of the "Dream Streams" nicer fish. Here is my ode to that day and the more traditional YGF video that could have resulted from some skilled angling. We were 22 INCHES SHORT.

Watch it in HD on vimeo.

22 Inches Short from Yukon Goes Fishing on Vimeo.