Laramie Fishing Report

As I plan a family vacation to New Mexico this week, I am thinking to myself, when I get back in a week the rivers will have receded and back to normal. The trout will be back in the big pools, but those holes might have change a little with all the spring flooding. Hemingway coined the phrase “write what you know” and it rings true for me. Although I could never compare what I do to Hemingway his

This past week we got the family out and went on our first camping trip. It is always amazing to me how much stuff you need to spend one night camping out. Of course I have decided never to sleep on the ground again because it takes me a week for my back to feel better. So there are a lot of camping crap that I never used to bring like: cots, pillows, folding chairs pretty much everything but the

The Art of Fly-Fishing Fly-Fishing is something you must learn over your life-time. I know that sounds “out-there” but a couple of my friends have told me, this summer, I’m going to learn to fly-fish! I tell them, me too! Then explain I have been fly-fishing for over 30 years, and I don’t know anything. It’s like anything in life the more you think you know about something the more you realize you

This week unless you have a white water raft, I suggest you get out to the plains lakes to fish. Lake Hattie, Twin Buttes, Galett (not Meeboer) are fishing well so get your boat dusted off and make sure you have all the stickers and registration updated and placed on your boat.  You will need the following: purchase your Wyoming boat register sticker, your Aquatic Invasive Species decals and make

Many people have mentioned the similarities of fly-fishing and golf. I get frustrated from both and I can have great satisfaction from both. When you cast a perfect line to a rising trout that just hit the surface it can be as satisfying as hitting a perfect tee shoot from the 9th fairway.  I personally enjoy fishing more than golf can't say that I have ever dreamed of golfing.

Ok today is nice to go fishing and this weekend looks to be more like it! We may not have seen the last snow storm but we know summer is right around the bend. I am planning on fishing the beaver ponds on the Laramie range this weekend and hopefully catch enough for dinner!