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With the snowy Sangre de Cristo range as a backdrop, Roger Welles flyfishes on the Arkansas River just east of Cotopaxi on March 15, 2012. The temperature in nearby Cañon City hit 75 degrees that day.
rainbow trout
Horizon Middle School special needs students Carlos Atencio, left, and Jeremy Barr test out their fishing skills during the District 49 annual fishing event at Prospect lake in May.
walleye
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Mastering drifts, mends a challenge for fly fans
By Angelo StAmBene [email protected] —
here are many creative methods for catching fish. Two of the more prominent disciplines are fly-fishing and bait fishing. Fly fishers attempt to catch fish while using the weight of the fishing line to cast a nearly weightless fly. If they are casting correctly, the fly should catch the attention of the fish. Steve Gossage, a Colorado Springs native and merchandise manager/guide at Angler’s Covey, says fly-fishing is more technical than bait, or
Lure fishing way to go for walleye and catfish lure, fishing. “First of all, there’s the bugs,” he says. “Getting your drifts right, your mends right — adjusting your line on the water to undo what the current is doing — just getting that right drift. “Then it’s about strike detection. There’s so many other smaller technical aspects of it.” Instead of using weighted lines, bait and lure fishers use lead weights or heavy lures to get
catfish
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With the snowy Sangre de Cristo range as a backdrop, Roger Welles flyfishes on the Arkansas River just east of Cotopaxi on March 15, 2012. The temperature in nearby Cañon City hit 75 degrees that day.
rainbow trout
Horizon Middle School special needs students Carlos Atencio, left, and Jeremy Barr test out their fishing skills during the District 49 annual fishing event at Prospect lake in May.
walleye
Perfect gear
Looking for a good fly pattern for spring? Try Charlie Craven’s JuJu Baetis. Page 3
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Mastering drifts, mends a challenge for fly fans
By Angelo StAmBene [email protected] —
here are many creative methods for catching fish. Two of the more prominent disciplines are fly-fishing and bait fishing. Fly fishers attempt to catch fish while using the weight of the fishing line to cast a nearly weightless fly. If they are casting correctly, the fly should catch the attention of the fish. Steve Gossage, a Colorado Springs native and merchandise manager/guide at Angler’s Covey, says fly-fishing is more technical than bait, or
Lure fishing way to go for walleye and catfish lure, fishing. “First of all, there’s the bugs,” he says. “Getting your drifts right, your mends right — adjusting your line on the water to undo what the current is doing — just getting that right drift. “Then it’s about strike detection. There’s so many other smaller technical aspects of it.” Instead of using weighted lines, bait and lure fishers use lead weights or heavy lures to get
catfish
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see fishing • page 3
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