Planning to Fish 01Dec15

Welcome to December. I recently acquired two excellent books as to fishing in Colorado. You may know Landon Mayer as a great guide out of COS, or as a tyer, or as an author, or as a guy always shown with huge fish. I just read his excellent 2011 book Colorado's Best Fly Fishing - I wish I'd had it sooner. He profiles most of the 170 miles of Gold Medal water (and other water) in the state and he describes well the hatches and which streams have the best of each. This is great for planning 2016 and a desire to diversify from the "local" streams only... more later on that. I am also reading Mike Kephart's book Colorado's Lost Lakes and Secret Places. This is a decent book on the high country around the state and was acquired again with an eye on planning fishing trips. I'd have to say the Landon's is a "must have" for CoWWs as it is highly relevant and informative. Given those books, and some others in my library I will be stopping at Blue Quill Angler this coming Saturday on my way to Summit - many of the authors will be there 11am-2pm and I'll meet them and have them sign my books (my gosh I have Gierach, Dorsey, Mayer, Engle and Kephart). FYI if you wanna join; Blue Quill is Dorsey's place. Too, I'm gonna hit the PT later this week.