Fly Fishing Colorado, Holsinger's Fly Shop

I finally made it back out west to do some fishing and had a lot of fun while we were there. The reason for going to Denver was to take in a Christian music festival at the Red Rocks Amphitheater. There is no way I'm going to fly to the Rocky Mountains and not take a fly rod with me though. On this trip I took both my Syndicate Reaver 2wt and my new DiamondBack 1wt. We were told by one of the customers at the shop, Jim Toth, to check out the Middle Fork of the South Platte River. It turned out to be a great lead and we got into some really nice wild brown trout.

I only had a limited amount of time while I was out there to fish, so I tried to make the most of it. Just because you are fishing a different area in the country doesn't mean that your tactics need to change. I used the same techniques to catch fish in Colorado as I do back home in Pennsylvania. I looked for holes and pockets in the stream that looked like the streams back home and sure enough, trout are trout, they were there.

When we were there there was a PMD (Pale Morning Dun) hatch coming off. I've been out west before when the PMD's were coming off and know that our sulphur patterns from the east will work for them in a crunch. One of the main differences between the PMD and Sulphur is that the PMD is a little but more of a pink shade in the thorax. Knowing that fact I looked through my box and seen a small Sexy Walt's with a pink bead and it was the magic ticket.

Materials List:

HFS Jig Hook Size 18
Firehole Slotted Tungsten Bead, 2.5mm Pink Panther
140 Denier Rusty Brown
Krystal Flash Pearl
SLF Pattern Blends, Red Fox Squirrel Nymph Thorax

[leemowers]

Thanks for sharing, love the fishing sequences. Very nice fly tied on the video. Hope your vacation was great.

[anthonybilenki]

Shawn, nice video. You make some of us (me) feel human. LOL when you miss or have to work hard to catch a couple fish! Cheers, Tony

[hencape]

A guide fly. That's what I like. Thanks for the video and glad you had a good time.

[joutdoorsmen]

Really awesome I really enjoy your fishing and tying videos its so awesome cool to see what you’re catching them on and then tying I’ve found that it doesn’t matter at all if you’re nymphing out West, down South, or up North it will work any where with positive action thanks for sharing this looks like you having a

[chasinbowsnbrowns]

Looks like a good time ! I like that fly, I’ll probably tie up some a tad heavier with a 3mm bead ! Nice video

[bobmatuzak]

Glad you got to get out west and I’m glad you got a chance to fish. Good looking water. Loved the pictures at the end. Did you drive out? Gotta get out to see the Red Rock amphitheater. Nice of you to give our PA trout a chance for their lips to heal:)

[lincolnparmer]

Great video Shawn: Nice piece of water. one question. How do you choose the bead color? Being an old timer wetfly fisherman, I don't know where to begin Thanks

[nathanielchoate]

That dubbing looks great but I can’t find it anywhere?