The rains and cooler weather delayed the inevitable just long enough to get a few more days on the water before the push began. Finding participants wasn’t hard, and one of them even provided me with an excuse to get a free hall pass from work. The Arkansas River was holding well, while the Colorado …
He sent me a text message last week with a video of a streamer he had found. The next evening he arrived at my house with the materials required and made me sit with him as we constructed his first fly on the vice. A quick learner, he took the handful of flies he tied …