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Fish are jumping in Fryingpan River |
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Friday, February 03, 2012 13:51 |
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Jason Peltack, a guide for Taylor Creek Fly Shop in Basalt, caught about 20 trout in two hours from this shallow pool on the Fryingpan River below Reudi Reservoir.
Story and photo by Scott Willoughby, The Denver Post
BASALT — Contrary to what the good folks at ESPN might have you believe, not all of the action around Aspen was at the Winter X Games last weekend.
As record crowds flocked to Buttermilk Mountain to watch Shaun White and the rest of the annual action sports circus, a savvy few made a break for the more provincially renowned locale known as the Fryingpan River below Ruedi Reservoir. There they discovered plenty of parking, ample elbow room and an unlikely supply of hardy, eager trout doing everything but backflips to jump on the end of a fly-fishing line.
From the fishing perspective, this year's mild Western winter has been good to the Fryingpan. And unlike the action that ended at Buttermilk on Sunday, the activity on the Pan is likely to linger a little longer.
"They're on the bite right now," said Mike Calcaterra, a year-round guide with Frying Pan Anglers in Basalt. "Everyone is amazed at how good the fishing is."
Read more about the fishing in the Fryingpan and what time of day some anglers say is best.
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