Nate O Taylor

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Taking It Easy

August 23, 2010 by n.taylor 3 Comments

Sometimes it pays to spend a weekend recovering from previous excursions. The last several weekends have left me mostly sleep deprived and hungover so it seemed like a good time to not do anything. I also gazed into the future and found obligations with David Luna in Montana, my buddy Jeff on the Taylor, and my special needs uncle David and cousin Whit sometime in October. Thinking about all of that just makes me tired.

Victim

Victim

If you haven’t tried using a speargun before, I highly suggest you try it at your earliest convenience. Not only is this technique incredibly easy, it’s also extremely rewarding. I mean how else can you mercilessly patrol the coastal waters? With no catch limit and harvest strongly encouraged for these critters, there simply is no other more efficient means of extermination.

As far as my future is concerned, with any sort of break in the weather I’m going to hit the dream hard before the massive influx of crowds arrives sometime in the middle of September. This usually occurs immediately after some derelict from the Denver Post publishes a lame article about how someone’s “dream will be made” on the Dream Stream (*cough I mean Charlie Meyers State Wildlife Area). Get your egg patterns now, because when that article goes into print rest assured that every shop in town will be scratching their heads wondering why they didn’t order more. Every man for himself come the fall.

Other things I was doing this weekend…

Release

Release

Filed Under: Summer Tagged With: Dream Stream, Lindbergh, Montana

My Favorite Days…

July 12, 2010 by n.taylor 3 Comments

Are those July trips that get you stirring at 3am. I often find myself unable to sleep because I am so eager for the that first cast.

Cool morning, cool brown

Wondering if I will find rising fish come first light. Wondering if all of my preparation and research will have paid off, or if the Fishing Gods will frown upon my over exuberance.This fine day did bring about good fortune, but when the flows suddenly dropped at lunch hour we had to improvise.

Luckily I had brought along my own wildcard in Komrade David Luna who spends most of his time chasing Carp through Denver’s side channels. With trout fishing giving us issues we decided to hunt the Golden Ghost. After a brief lunch break and a new arsenal of flies we silently began our assault. Most of my experience with these creatures has been a failure. I would put Carp’s evolutionary track record against anything on planet earth which explains their astounding IQ (that or I suck). This fine day however, we were not disappointed…

David Luna

Filed Under: Summer Tagged With: Dream Stream, Luna

Where Have All My Rainbow’s Gone?

March 12, 2010 by n.taylor Leave a Comment

That's AM

That's AM

The big push is not here yet. I’ve hit it fairly hard the last 10 days and by this time I usually have a few sightings of our boys and girls over 10lbs. I’ve seen some nice fish, but nothing like I have in years past. The very cold spring coupled with the fact that Spinney isn’t putting out a flow and 11 Mile is still has 2 feet of ice doesn’t help.

In order for the Rainbows to have a large run a few things need to happen.
My Theory:
1. The water in 11 Mile needs to warm enough to trigger a single large migration.
2. This happens when the ice breaks, letting in more sunlight, warming the water etc.
3. This can be accelerated with increased flows out of Spinney that will force the 11 Mile inlet to melt.

If this doesn’t warm up soon the spawn won’t be good this year. I’m going to say it now and put my low level reputation on the line.

Morning search

Morning search

Filed Under: Spring Tagged With: Dream Stream, Tyler Kendrick

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