Outdoors

Colorado offers some of the West’s most enticing fly fishing waters.

    Many are deep in the high country and distant West Slope regions of the state. For the fly angler looking for close in fly waters one stream, Clear Creek often goes unnoticed. We all have motored past this quiet trout water along Interstate 70 to and from ski areas or West Slope destinations, unaware of the promise this basin offers fly fishermen.

The Brighton Bloomin’ Buddies Garden Club recently visited a member’s flower and vegetable gardens and one of his neighbor’s mixed border gardens. It’s always fun to see how other gardeners make use of their space, what varieties they favor, what plants thrive for them with limited maintenance and what they consider their garden mistakes.  

I recently spent a few days in Grand Lake, fishing, relaxing and reflecting in the beauty of Grand Lake, Shadow Mountain and Granby reservoirs.

    The fishing resources within these high country waters had my mind sorting through one of the big issues being promoted by our outdoor organizations in Colorado and on a national level: acquainting our youth to the outdoors via fishing.

When the word and photographs reach the Midwest whitetail deer hunting fraternity about the huge buck taken in neighboring southeast Nebraska, hunters will be abuzz.