Tuesday, June 11, 2013

40 MPH and RISING - New YGF Video

Not all days are great. Conditions aren't always perfect. Sometimes it's windy. This was one of those days in South Park on the Dream Stream. I was joined by Andrew Burgos (aka pinchetruta on instagram), his dog Ethel, and YGF's official canine mascot Bosley dog. While it was a little windy, we still managed to have a good day on the Dream. Watch it on Vimeo in HD.

40 MPH AND RISING from Yukon Goes Fishing on Vimeo.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

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....

Monday, March 18, 2013

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

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

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.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

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.

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dreams and goals of 2012

1. - 5. Finish thesis.
6. Catch a trout in every month of the year (Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, June, July, Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec).
7. Catch a fish on a mouse pattern. This mouse pattern.
8. Catch a carp on the fly.
9. Catch bass on the fly.
10. Catch redfish on the fly.
11. Catch a northern pike on the fly
12. Catch a steelhead on the fly
13. Learn to spey cast with a reasonable amount of success
14. Hit a legit hatch on the Missouri and promptly get humbled fishing dries to big fish.
15. Catch a fish on a fly (dry fly, nymph, streamer) I tie.
16. Tie an articulated streamer and catch a 20" fish with said streamer.
17. Tie a custom articulate streamer pattern. Give it a bland and boring name.
18. Make a video that gets more than 9,999 views.
19. Catch 3 or more trout of 20" in a day of fishing
20. Catch a 20" cutthroat, 24" rainbow, and 24" brown trout.
21. Fish some top secret water in Wyoming