Denver, CO
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HANS MYLANT - DARYL EAKINS - Richard Pilatzke - Cat Toy - Eric Pettine - Dick Shinton
- Jane Retherford - Mary Manka - Jonathan Antunez - Joe Brenton - Ralph Rhoades
Join Us at the Video Theater and the Tying Tables!
See all the bios and tying information here.
Chris
Steinbeck
Improve Your Fly-Casting Now
Improve Your Fly-Casting Now
Beyond the Fly--You Can Have the Perfect Fly, but Can You Catch the Fish?
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Beyond the Fly: You can have the perfect fly, but can you catch the fish?
Fly choice is just a small part of catching fish; the details behind the presentation of the fly are what lead to more fish in the net. These details are also what many anglers struggle with, even if they don’t know it. From reading the river, to understanding what to use, to fighting the fish - learn strategies and techniques the pro’s use to consistently catch fish in Colorado.
Experts Corner: “Strategies for Fly Selection in Colorado”
A guide’s point of view on the strategies for choosing the right fly in Colorado. Time of year, weather, and hatches are just some of the variables that influence fly choice. Learn a few tips and tricks that will help you confidently pick the right fly at the right time.
Nathan
Zelinsky
Tightlines Outdoors
Ice Fishing for Kokanee Salmon
Night-Time Walleye
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Ice Fishing for Kokanee Salmon- Our Kokanee populations are coming back and fishing is good. Learn the lost art of Kokanee fishing through the ice.
Night Time Walleye- What happens once the sun goes down? Learn the tricks of night fishing to catch more and bigger Walleye.
Dog Training
Elite - Sandy
Elite Working Dogs: Therapy, Service & Protection
Elite Working Dogs: Therapy, Service & Protection
The folks at Dog Training Elite are also passionate dog lovers! Their company is designed from 40+ years of dog-training experience to create dog training programs that not only train your dog but train you, as the owner, too! What began as a small movement in the dog-training world has gained momentum, attracting attention from clients and trainers with its successful in-home training model that empowers dog owners and their canines to work together, creating strong bonds, sustained obedience, and long-term results.
Rebekah
Martin
RVs, Trailers, Vans—How to Camp Without a Tent
You don't need a tent to camp. In fact, RVs, trailers, vans, pop-tops, and more are taking over dirt roads across the state. Rebekah Martin—who has been in the business of Colorado camping vacations for four decades—will share everything you need to know to expand your camping repertoire.
Matt
Endsley
Spinney Reservoir
Spinney Reservoir
Experts Corner:
Spinney Reservoir - tackle and unconventional lures for Trophy Trout.
Darren
Christansen
A Guide's Fly-Casting Tips
A Guide's Fly-Casting Tips
Darren has been guiding with Kirks Mountain Adventures for eight years. When not on the water with clients, he's helping customers in the shop. An accomplished artist, Darren paints his favorite subject, trout, in watercolor and oil paintings. Fly fishing with clients in Rocky Mountain National Park and showing people the beautiful wild trout found there is one of the favorite parts of his summer. Darren guides backpack and llama-pack trips into RMNP as well as guiding fly-fishing trips.
David
Young
The Year's Best Camping Gear
Whether you have one hobby or many, it can feel like you need a million pieces of gear before you can hit the trail. But as these avid outdoorsmen and gear testers will share, it pays to be picky. Learn about the new items they don't leave home without and get advice on what's worth splurging on and what you can borrow from a friend.
Pat
Dorsey
Blue Quill Angler
Fly Fishing Colorado’s Best Tailwaters
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Fly Fishing Colorado’s Best Tailwaters: Colorado is known for its deep, bottom-release tailwaters that support a rich and diversified aquatic life. Tailwaters provide anglers with a four-season fishery that affords anglers with consistent flows, clear water, large populations of trout, and dependable hatches. Learn the tactics and techniques to successfully fish these year-round waters. A detailed discussion on dams, benefits of a tailwater, hatches, fly selection, reading the water, and much more, are covered in this informative lecture.
Tips to Catch More Trout: The old cliché about 90% of the fish are caught by 10% of the fisherman is not far from the truth! Some of the biggest breakthroughs as angler come as a result of understanding the nuances of our sport, as well as, thinking outside the box from time to time. Dorsey will unveil numerous tips that will no-doubt increase your productivity on the stream. Dorsey will discuss reading the water, observation, sight fishing, selectivity, fly selection, matching the hatch, rigging, presentation, and much more!
Rex
Murray
Ringneck Country
Training Your Hunting Dog
Training Your Hunting Dog
Austin
Parr
Learn Your Lowrance!
Learn Your Lowrance!
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Walleye on the Front Range - A Full Breakdown
Sunday Family Day TOPIC: Finding Success Through the Seasons - Consistently Put Youngsters on Fish
Experts Corner:
Learn Your Lowrance - Demonstrations, questions and answers
Sean McCoy
and Perry Boydstun
Mistakes We've Made in the Outdoors—and How You Can Avoid Them!
We've all done it: Forgot the right socks. Packed too little water. Sometimes those mistakes are minor—sometimes they put us in dangerous situations. Even the most accomplished outdoorspeople have messed up while playing in Mother Nature. Two of them take the stage to share some of those anecdotes, plus provide advice on how to avoid repeating their errors.
Jerry
Lehtinen
Fly-Casting to Catch Fish
Jerry has 25 years of fly-fishing experience guiding the Rocky Mountain waters. His passion is to have the client have a memorable experience on the water, a memory that always will be embedded in their mind, and to introduce novice or seasoned fishers to techniques that will reward them with success when they return solo to the river. As a guide, Jerry not only guarantees catching fish, but to entertain the client. "Be safe, have fun, relax, be patient, and build confidence", in his words. This approach will have success in hooking and landing fish all while experiencing the “WOW FACTOR”! When not guiding or tying flies, Jerry is fishing waters in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana.
High Plains
Falconers
Introduction to Falconry
Come see these magnificent birds! High Plains Falconry's mission is to foster and protect the tenets, practices and cultural heritage of traditional falconry, and to freely pass on the field craft, hawkmanship, and etiquette pertaining to game hawking in its traditional form. The goal is to practice and enjoy the best of Colorado Falconry--to have fun doing this sport. Most members enjoy other forms of hunting and other outdoor activities, but know there is nothing quite like hunting with a falcon or hawk, and developing and maintaining the bond they enjoy with their birds.
FRANK WHISPELL - JONATHAN ANTUNEZ - Daryl Eakins - Dennis Martin - Cat Toy - John Vevurka
- Barbara Luneau - Mary Manka - Hans Mylant - Barbara Luneau - Mark Rayman - Bill Kirk
Join Us at the Video Theater and the Tying Tables!
See all the bios and tying information here.
Dan England
and Bryan Fons
Avoiding Crowds On Your Adventures
We know, we know: Colorado's trails and campsites can be crowded. But there are still plenty of places to explore away from the crowds—so long as you know where, and when, to look. Pick up advice from two local adventurers so you can ensure there aren't other people blocking your photos or your fun.
Kirk Bien
and Steve Schweitzer
Kirk's Flyshop
Fly Fishing In and Around Rocky Mountain National Park
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Rarely does one get the chance to capture so much information from two such experts in a single hour! Kirk and Steve will cover fly-fishing the high mountain lakes of Rocky for Greenback and Colorado River Cutthroats, the Big Thompson River for Rainbows and Browns, the Colorado River Float trips for Rainbows, Browns and Whitefish, and big Lake trout on a fly rod on Grand Lake.
Nate
Zelinsky
Tightline Outdoors
Hunting Big Bulls with Little to No Preference Points