Cebolla Creek? Now, I’m not claiming that Cebolla Creek belongs on the list of Earth’s finest brown trout fisheries-New Zealand Patagonia White River, Arkansas Silver Creek, Idaho and others-but I am saying that, for an unfamous, semi-scrawny trout stream in a forgotten corner of Colorado, it’s a fair bit better than you might guess. My own brown trout wanderlust has taken me to some of Colorado’s finest Salmo trutta waters: the Gunnison, Taylor, South Platte, and Frying Pan Rivers, and Cebolla Creek, amongst others. I’d wager that long before the disciples were “‘fishers of men,”‘ they were fly fishers of brown trout. I first suspected as much when legendary author Norman Maclean broached the subject in A River Runs Through It speaking of his father, he recalled, “He told us about Christ’s disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.” Mason Family State Wildlife Area contains some of the most gorgeous and productive brown trout water in the entire Gunnison Valley, but to dodge the crowds, skip breakfast and get there early. Teach him how to catch a brown trout on a fly rod andyou will have ruined him for a lifetime.”Īpparently, trout-obsessed fly-fishing bums aren’t anything new. To loosely paraphrase the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu, “Give a man a brown trout and you feed him for a day.
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