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Checking in from the SW

[caption id="attachment_7461" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Early season pig dwarfs 18 3/4 in Brodin landing net."][/caption] Guide season is starting to pick up here in Durango.  I have mostly been guiding on the San Juan and the fishing is very good.  Midges, big and little, are the name of the game throughout the ...

Friendship and Adventure – What Fishing is All About

  [caption id="attachment_7052" align="alignleft" width="270" caption="Holy giant pike!"][/caption] Captain Mark Engler has been a trout fishing guide for over twenty years, but his world really revolves around just two things: duck hunting and pike fishing (he is now guiding both).  So when he’s not bitching at clients to get back in their ...

Winter Action on the Animas

[caption id="attachment_6752" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Great fish great day"][/caption] Conditions on the Animas River are more favorable for fishing than they normally are through the cold month of January.  It is definitely winter in the Durango area, but we are not seeing the really cold nights that can turn the river into ...

If Only I Lived Closer

My name is Spencer and I am a geographically challenged steelheader. Living in Durango has a lot to offer the angler, but après-work and weekend steelheading trips are not one of them. For me, going steelheading is an annual trip. [caption id="attachment_6339" align="aligncenter" width="666" caption="Why can't I live closer to these ...

Area Creeks SW Colorado

[caption id="attachment_5958" align="aligncenter" width="666" caption="Still some small stream action to be had."][/caption] Is it over?  It can’t be over yet, right?  I know the colors are changing and the fresh snow has fallen in the high country, but it’s early October, the sun is shining, there is water in the creek ...