For the first time in a while–I did not watch a single sporting event during a 24 hour span. I worked. But late in the day our son Chris sent us a picture of an “18 inch brown trout he caught in a stream on a dry fly about an hour out of Denver near a place called Deckard.
The browns don’t jump. They dart and dive. The rainbows jump.
We actually have some trout rivers in Oklahoma. I’ve stocked one our ponds out here in Deer Creek with trout for about three seasons using the same fishery which stocks both Dolese Park in Oklahoma City and the new trout stream in Turner Falls.
You can get 200 lbs. of trout for around a thousand dollars and if your pond is less than an acre it makes for some great winter trout fishing in Oklahoma. You just make sure and fish them out before it gets warm.
The fish range anywhere in size from ’12 to “20 . All rainbows from the Crystal Springs Hatchery in Missouri.
My son…the fly fishing purist will roll his eyes and say my method is like shooting fish in a barrel. Whatever.
Anyway…whenever Chris sends a pic of a trout he’s caught in Colorado stream… I always think of this. Always.