I needed new water and the opportunity came this last weekend. The  manager of High Desert Angler and friend, Ed, had just competed in the Conejos “Super Fly”  competition – hosted by Conejos River Anglers – the previous weekend and reported that the Conejos was on  fire! I should also mention that Ed and his teammate (JP) won the  competition. That little notch scored them each a 9’6″ Z-Axis 4wt rod. Not too shabby  in anyone’s book.

So Ed, myself and Mike decided to see what we could stir up the  following weekend. We left early Saturday morning from Santa Fe and made  our two and a half hour drive to Antonito Co. Of course we stopped in  at the Conejos River Anglers to fly up and get a room and after a quick  chat with Devan, the manager/full time guide for CRA, we were on our way.

We stepped in somewhere near Bear Creek which is not too far from the fly shop. The first day was nice. It was slightly chilly but the sun was  out keeping us warm.

The action was a little slow but all managed to get a couple decent browns in the net:

We wrapped up the day with too much food at the Dos Hermanas in Antonito just pown the road from the cabin. The next day we awoke to a bit of a surprise. Two inches of snow by  eight in the morning. We are not “fair weather” fishermen so we geared up  and went to the shop to get another day license and hit the river again.  A couple guide trips bailed that morning on the shop. Those  Albuquerqueians are a little tender I suppose.

We also though it best to go up the Forest Service road to hit some higher water.

Ready to roll:

Of course the day with foul weather produces faster and produces better LOL! it didn’t take long to hook into some nice browns:

I found the right depth on a nice deep hole  and pulled out a couple really nice Bows:

We all got a number of good fish and some comical video of us trying to  help each other out netting fish. I will get those put together for a  little clip at a later date.

May your feet always be wet…