A Mini Course in Insect ID

This might help some beginners

Drought Threatens NM Rio Grande Cutt

http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2006/07/08/news/regional/a1f5e95d2050d6e1872571a30063c8ae.txt

Summer

The fishing on the Animas river has been awesome. The Baetis hatch in late April was phenomenal. I'm talking like 40-50 fish days everyday. Then runoff hit and lasted untill about a month ago. The amount of snowpack this year was minimal compared to last year, so the river dropped to 460cfs. The monsoons finally arrived and the fishing on the San Juan has heated up over the last few days. The carpenter ants are swarming and the fish are gorging themselves on the clusters of ants that have been flooded out. I wish i was down there right now getting in on the action, but im managing the shop. The PMD's on t he animas have been coming off everyday for the last 2 week and a half, which gives us some dry action from 10am-12pm. A #20 cream sparkle dun is the pattern that best matches the hatch. If you decide to nymph, then throw #12-18 copper johns, phesant tails, princes, caddis pupae. big sculpin patterns are working well right now also. Swing them down through the pockets and then strip and pause.

Fish Stem Cells

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11206577/

Humuhumunukunukuapuaa dethroned as Hawaii's State Fish

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/news/2006/jan/28/012804763.html

Colorado

I got back from Colorado and had an awesome time. I caught several large fish and scored a guiding job at the Caddis Company. Its gonna be freakin awesome.

The Best Commercial Ever

Heres to Beer lovers everywhere and to the Theory of EVOLUTION. This is a commercial that won't air in the U.S. because of you guessed it.....EVOLUTION.
http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials/1959/

Patagonia on Hold

So my trip to Patagonia is on hold for a few weeks while we make some more money to continue for our trip. However, I'm flying to Denver to visit John for 2 weeks leaving on the 10th. We are going to fish the Animas and the San Juan and possibly a few other rivers in the Durango area.

Christmas present

I went down to Taney today to see what was going on. Stopped by the shop and got myself a christmas present the Orvis Battenkill Mid Arbor for my 8wt. CV2. With some Sci-Angler XXD line. Man that this is beautiful it casts like a dream. didnt have my waders or anything with me so I just fished from the bank and caught a 14 in bow and a 16 in brown on a scud. They turned one on just about 5 min after we got there. hope to get down soon when Jonny gets back but probably wont be down again till after Christmas.

Taney yesterday

I went down to Taney yesterday to see what was going on and because i didnt have much else to do. When i got there they were running 1 generator and had been since 11am. I walked the bank between 2 and 3 and didnt see any fish of any size. but i did manage to catch 2 rainbows none of any size though. Those would be the only fish i would catch the rest of the day and i left about 6 and came home because they turned on 4 and it wasnt worth staying and fishing in the dark.