" The Important Places" by gnarly bay

I found this on my good friend Jeff's FB page and had to share, a very powerful video, well worth your  9 minutes. If you are a river rat, you will instantly connect to the power of this film.

" This is one of the most powerful short films that I have watched in a long time. This is a story of 
legacy, a father, a son, and the wild places in the world. Everyone who has struggled with their own
sense of purpose and plan will relate to this story of a man trying to connect with the younger man his father once was."

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Tail Dragger

"Tail Dragger"

The combination of clothing and background distortion made this tail shot quite interesting.

The colors are unique to most fishing pictures as pink pastels are not often associated with them.

Just a nice soothing photo for the middle of the soggy week. 

Tuesday Photo Essay

The world sure is a wonderful place to sit and observe from time to time. Just the sights and scenery

that can be captured on any given day. Place and spaces, country roads, rivers, barns and fence lines all 

capture the imagination. Here are just a few images that taken this past week.

 Barbed - B/W 

 Meateater- no caddis for me

 Flankside of the Rainbow

Peacock Wulff - Float like a cork, sting like a bee.

Time to Make Hay…..

Looks like the start of the fluctuation of runoff is starting it's pulsating thump around the state, just a week or two early. Hoping to get another week out of the Colorado we made the right choice by bagging our trip and picking a different river. As you can see by the graphs below, did we ever make the right move. A nice 2000 CFS move over Saturday and Sunday.

Not nearly the same drastic move but up almost 900 CFS. Water had marginal clarity last weekend, sure it went to hell this weekend.

The Eagle also decided to join the game, and spiked a little. 

 The Gunnison stair stepped up a little so it probably isn't in to bad of shape and still worth a trip over, especially with the cold front coming through the next few days. With rain and overcast weather in the forecast, streamers would be in the forecast.

Time to get out and make the best of it in the next couple of weeks, then it would be time for 

stillwater fishing or time off. Make it count….