Tuesday, January 28, 2014

The Unc


Ice fishing is great and all, but I really have been missing the long rod.  I've been out river walking lately.  It has felt great to cast again.  

I even attempted to make a video of my month on the river.  Feel free to leave your input on the video.  It's a new media for me and there's a bit of a learning curve.



For those who like pictures I have plenty of those too.  All fish in the Pacochupuk region were caught with marabou, while in the Montrose city limits I branched out and used a gulp a couple times.






I had a whole herd of deer cross the river right in front of me.  They were very curious as to what I was doing.





Back in Montrose I found a fish with a big open sore behind its eye.



There was a fine piece of gravel in it.  I removed it with a hook point.  Anyone have any ideas of what  happened to the poor guy?

I hope everyone is making it through the doldrums of winter alright, but keep in mind the ice is fun and the rivers still run.



Life is short, live it well


11 comments:

  1. Great looking browns! Good job! Winter is going okay so far. Hopefully I will be out on the water tomorrow!

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    1. Thanks for stopping by J. Good luck out there!

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  2. I agree with J, those Browns are just amazing and how cool to see a herd like that. Tight lines sir, spring will be here soon enough.

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    1. Spring can't come soon enough! Thanks for reading :)

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  3. Jeremy
    Awesome post, with an exceptional job on the images and video. What was the lure you were using for the browns? I am thinking about purchasing a camera to film some of my fishing trips in the spring, what is the name of the camera you were using? Did the camera come with a mount or was that extra. I have added your blog to my roll. Looking forward to more great post. Thanks for sharing

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    1. Thank you Bill. I have a Nikon Coolpix AW110. It's a pretty simple point and shoot camera, but does an alright job for my purposes. I don't use a mount either, thus I get a lot of shaky video. As for lures I was using mostly olive marabou jigs. There were some spots in town where I threw on a gulp minnow, but in the artificial sections I stick to marabou. Thanks for adding me. I look forward to reading your blog as well.

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  4. As you usually do, great work with the camera, Jeremy. Such a pretty piece of water and peaceful setting with all the deer looking on. Were you fly fishing or using jigs of one sort or another?

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    1. Thanks Mel!....and of course I'm using jigs. My fly skills are less than graceful and personally I usually catch smaller fish. We'll just say I used a weighted wooly bugger on a short rod.

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  5. Jeremy, wonderful pictures and I liked the video as well. The quality looks great. I would love to fish the Unc again some day.

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    1. Thanks for reading Howard. Come on over to good side of the mountain anytime. The Uncompahgre is a great little river.

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  6. You are the coolest human being I know.

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