Sunrise Anglers

16/04/2024

🖤black on black🖤

For a guide, there’s no better feeling than pulling up to a crowded take out, when apparently the river has fished tough, and your clients start going off on the day they had. Getting lucky on trip timing between shots of mud doesn’t hurt either … :)

“Huge shoutout” to the folks for setting up an bumper and Old Man EMU 3” soft lift suspension. I feel a wee bit safer at night on Trough Road when the mule deer are moving. A Safe season to all…

21/11/2023

🧜🏽 Grouper 🧜🏽

I see a lot of peolpe trying to imitate this look,,, only one can naturally pull this off… 😘

11/11/2023

🌀 One circle closes as another opens 🌀

The trip logs are in for the season. Feels like we just got rolling.
Thanks to All our 2023 clients, “you make the guide”…

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26/10/2023

Who’s guiding whom?

01/06/2023

🔆 Odd fellows Local 151 🔆

Incredibly honored and humbled to have my Edible Art photo associated with . Issue #47 dropped last week. If you haven’t checked them out, do yourself a favor. Thank Y’all :)

Although not southern born, I certainly was raised there. I had good fortune to be adopted by the right kind of people. Shoal bass run through my blood. Coosa spotted bass fill my dreams. With little shades creek flowing through our backyard, I couldn’t imagine a finer way to grow up.

25/02/2023

🌘 Moon Dog 🌘

Six weeks ago our girl was announced dead on the table. The surgeon had never seen a gallbladder in such shape. She likened it to a ball of yarn with a hundred knotted strings. Finding the correct connections with her liver and intestine seemed an impossible task. After a brief Braveheart speech to the vet and 3 more hours on the table, Luna emerged from surgery. A few tense days more of waiting to see if the procedure took, we got her back!

I firmly believe that all dogs go to heaven, just not yet for this one…

13/01/2023

🙏🏽 Say a prayer for my girl tonight. She needs your help🙏🏽

20/12/2021

🔱 Dorado 🔱
This fish is arguably the finest fish caught on a fly rod. The color changes and patterns on this fish are unworldly. They will take a well placed fly over bait. Mahi are able to reach speeds over 60 mph. In ideal conditions, they can grow up to 4 feet in their first year. They jump,,, a lot. They tailwalk like a billfish in the throes of a battle. They are so tasty. What I love most of all, they take a popper on top.
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17/05/2021

Christening Complete

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03/02/2021

“Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable and satisfying. “~

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Winter is usually the season were an overworked guide has chance to throw a line. A time to reconnect. Today I got to come home to one of my favorite runs. A place that taught me much of what I tell you on a guide trip. This hole coined the phrase, “midges make the world go round.” It has taught me so much, but all is not well underneath her rippled surface.
Over the last 50 years, as more and more water is diverted by Denver Water through the Continental Divide, the biomass of the Colorado River has suffered. The higher spring flows are no longer able to flush and cleanse the river. Literally, the rocks are being cemented together further limiting spaces the biomass can actually live and thrive. Recognizing this fact, has resorted to a ‘new” approach to bolster the river. Hopefully by resculpting the River it will provide increased habitat for invertebrates, sculpin, and the trout population will benefit as well. To be sure, nothing will be the same. Changes are inevitable. At least I got to talk to ‘the Squeezebox ‘ one more time...



FYI... since December 20th 2020 more water (540 cfs, roughly 60% of the Colorado)has been diverted to the Front Range through the Adams Tunnel than has been allowed to flow free on the Western Slope... how’d we get here?

15/12/2020

It’s a bit like our own pebble mine here in Colorado. They just won’t go away! Let your voice be heard. You might not live in Dotsero or even Eagle County, but please tell the Planning Commission that we don’t need a senseless mine. Please follow Save Our Confluence; Dotsero, Colorado for details and how you can help. This was a battle my friend Matt Bryan championed several years ago. We owe him to take up the charge! Miss you buddy...

In response to Monday’s headline and the tabling of the Rincon Materials special use permit for a gravel pit near the confluence of the Eagle and Colorado rivers, I feel the article missed a key…

09/12/2020

🎁 They’re In 🎁
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One Color: navy blue
Women’s “t”, “racer back”
Men’s “shortslv “, “longslv”
Hoodies ,,, all 💯% cotton
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29/11/2020

“I don’t wanna leave this place,,, It’s so fluffy...”. Jackie Moon Semi Pro

27/11/2020

🍂Happy Thanksgiving,,, Pilgrim🍂

For me, this holiday is my favorite. A natural way of reflecting on what we should be truly grateful for,,, family, friends, work, health, freedom,,, the list is long.
A huge shout out to our repeat clientele and the new faces we saw in this difficult year. Superb communication allowed for seamless excursions into the wild.
We’re embracing for what the future holds...
Peace to All and pass the gravy,,,, 😘

11/10/2020

🔥fire on the mountain🔥

On September 17th the Mullen Fire was started by selfish campers who believed it was their right to have a campfire despite a ban in place. It’s has now consumed over 175,000 acres. It will likely burn until the winter snows arrive. I know fire is the critical component in forest rebirth, but man it breaks my heart.
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The area where and I experienced an afternoon session for the ages two posts back, is gone. The mountain pictured from under the water is gone. The lunch rock is gone.

02/10/2020

🌻 Harvest Moon 🌻

With two snows bookending the growing season and a drought to boot, it’s been a rough year for the girls. Despite the setbacks, I do not know how I could have gone through quarantine without these incredible creatures. They’re an intimate window into the current state of the environment. I mean when you are ready to throw down on the Foothills Park and Recreation guy for senselessly spraying Glyphosate on flowering Milkweed, you know the bees are family. Leave Bergen #5 Reservoir alone and “Don’t come around here no more.” With the help of neighbors, we’re going for 10,000 sunflowers next year with a tunnel of sunflowers planned to line the street. fyi,,, Care packages heading out daily... :)
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22/09/2020

“Come a little bit closer
Hear what I have to say
Just like children sleepin’
We could dream this night away.
But there’s a full moon risin’
Let’s go dancin’ in the light
We know where the music’s playin’
Let’s go out and feel the night.
Because I’m still in love with you
I want to see you dance again
Because I’m still in love with you
On this harvest moon.”
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As the Baja date approaches, this fish occupies my dreams. The Harvest moon is a week away, and there is so much to do in the garden. Thanksgiving in Mexico, let the countdown begin...

13/08/2020

“When you greet a stranger
Look at his shoes
Keep your memories in your shoes
Put your travel behind
Who are you going to call for?
What do you have to say?
Keep your hat on your head
Home is a long way away...”

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After going solo for a couple days following the trico hatch, this angler seemingly steps out of blue in the middle of nowhere. 4wt cane in hand, we fished untouched browns & brooks in a high alpine afternoon sesch for the ages. @ Home Is Where My Dog Is

21/04/2020

About a decade ago to the day, I took my first Project Healing Waters .denver trip. Brian Blackman and I were honored to guide David Brittain, Gary Hartsel, Val Roberts, and Larry Fivecoats. Easily, one of the most emotional days I’ve ever experienced on the water. Thanks to Brian for his editing skills. I get a little misty every time I view this one 💦💦💦

01/03/2020

“Don’t Read Your Own Stuff Until You Have a Pile of It.”
A. Bourdain
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As the guide year starts to crank up, one of my joys is reflecting back on past seasons. Journals packed with observations, drawings, and utter nonsense are on the menu. High water, Low water. What worked, what didn’t. While there is a cyclical nature to this sport, no two seasons are alike. Discovering the differences, that’s the key to the puzzle. Here’s to 2020. May you keep discovering, keep growing, keep evolving,,, keep writing... 🙏🏽 circa 1998,,, must have been a sweet framboise lambic to make the page...

01/02/2020

🐇”White Rabbit, White Rabbit, White Rabbit” 🐇
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With temperatures hitting 70* this weekend, the phone is ringing for guides. I love when solos request these two. Word is out that Luna and Azul will run the bank on command. This trick is quite useful during the salmon fly hatch, not to mention hopper season. You just don’t ask for kisses after they’ve eaten a couple bugs. FYI,,, Luna (tricolorblack) caught her first rabbit at 10 weeks old. She’s been trying since to rag doll her second. Here’s to another 4 years of good luck with these two by my side... 📷

01/12/2019

🌒 “duende” 🌒

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11 miles later, the wind laid down, the sky parted, and I received total consciousness,,, “So I got that going for me, which is nice...”
Colorado Parks and Wildlife

15/11/2019

💚 After 15 years, she is transforming into a brook trout ...💚
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RO Drift Boats

14/09/2019

🐓🐟 Pez Gallo 🐓🐟

24/08/2019

This will be forever known as Matty’s Corner,,, fare thee well my friend...💙