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Select a River/Lake Arkansas River: Float Trip Arkansas River Antero Reservoir Beaver Creek/Skaquay Big Thompson River Blue Mesa Reservoir Blue River Boxwood Gulch Cheesman Canyon: South Platte Series Clear Creek Cochetopa and Los Pinos Creeks Colorado River Colorado River in Rocky Mtn Natl Park Colorado River near Glenwood Springs Colorado's High Country Trout Conejos River Crystal River Colorado Cutthroats Denver Area Fishing 'Dream Stream': South Platte Eagle River East River Elevenmile Canyon: South Platte Fishing the Flat Tops Hiking and Backpacking the Flat Tops Fraser River Fryingpan River Futa River: A Trip to Chile Gore Creek Gore Pass Greenback Cutthroats Gunnison River (upper) Gunnison River (Black Canyon Float) Hahns Peak Lake Laramie River Lost Creek Sorting out Mayflies Muddy Creek North Park rivers and lakes North Platte River Osier and Cascade Creeks Ouray County Pearl Lake Piedra River Poudre River Red Feather Lakes Rio Grande Rio Grande - Upper Roaring Fork River San Juan River Slammin' Colorado River Trout Snake River South Boulder Creek South Platte - Cheesman Canyon South Platte - Deckers South Platte - Dream Stream South Platte - Elevenmile Canyon South Platte - Waterton Canyon South Platte Carp Spinney Reservoir St. Louis Creek St.Vrain Creeks and Area Lakes Steamboat Lake Tarryall Creek Taylor Park Fishing Taylor River Ten Mile Creek The Flat Tops & Trappers Lake Trappers Lake Uncompahgre River Waterton Canyon White River Williams Creek Williams Fork River Yampa River

 

Informational articles

Select a Topic Finding Uncrowded Waters Flycasting in Wind Colorado Cutthroats Fishing the Unhatches Winter Flyfishing - Where to Go? Counting Fish Sorting out Mayflies Success Story - Greenback Cutthroat Stocking Fish - how it's done How to Catch a Carp in 5 Days Tying Pheasant Tails South Platte Carp Twenty-Inch Trout Colorado's High Country Trout Women - Learn Flyfishing! Choosing Waders

"Fish Tails" publishes feature stories and photos submitted by our readers, and stories written by Colorado Fishing Network staff. If you're looking for info about fishing a particular Colorado stream or area, search CFN. This will find "Fish Tails" articles in addition to other Colorado Fishing Network pages.

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Previous Contributions by Al Marlowe

• Twenty-Inch Trout
• Muddy Creek: Clearly a Good Trout Stream
• Colorado's High Country Trout
• Banana Belt Trout: the Arkansas River
• Colorado Cutthroats
• Fishing the Unhatches
• Slammin' Colorado River Trout
• Fishing for Browns Upriver - the Colorado in RMNP
• The Flat Tops and Trappers Lake
• Hiking and Backpacking the Flat Tops: Devil's Causeway
• Goldens and Brookies on Gore Pass

Previous ColoradoFishing.net Features by Karen Christopherson

• Antero Reservoir
• Hahns Peak Lake - Always a Winner
• Pearl Lake - A Fishing Gem
• Red Feather Lakes
• Rio Grande and Grandes Truchas
• Upper Gunnison River
• North Park
• The Spin on Spinney Mountain Reservoir
• The Yampa River: Growing Up
• Beaver Creek and Skaguay Reservoir - A 'Find'
• Williams Creek: A gem in southern Colorado
• Piedra River: Beautiful flyfishing hike
• Ten Mile Creek (Would you believe 8 miles of fishing?)
• Snake River: Sometimes a Summit Surprise
• Laramie River: From Colorado into Wyoming
• 'Magic' Crystal River
• Drifting and Flyfishing on the Colorado River near Glenwood Springs
• Big Fish Fix: Boxwood Gulch
• Flyfishing the Futa: A Trip to Chile
• Winter Fishing in Cheesman Canyon:South Platte Series
• The 'Dream Stream':Part of the South Platte Series
• Elevenmile Canyon: Part of the South Platte Series
• Lost Creek, Found Brookies
• White River
• St. Louis Creek
• Winter Flyfishing - Where to Go?
• Counting Fish
• "The Bill" - Flyfishing the Williams Fork 
• Sorting out Mayflies
• Denver Area Fishing
• Wild River, Wild Trout - the Poudre
• Hop In to the Conejos
• Caddis, Caddis Everywhere
• Lots of Variety - the Yampa
• Success Story - the Greenback Cutthroat
• Headwaters to Tailwaters: the San Juan
• Take the Fork, the Roaring Fork
• Winter Fishing in Waterton Canyon
• Cooking up a Good Time on the Fryingpan
• Foothills Fishing Part III: Clear Creek
• Foothills Fishing Part II: South Boulder Creek
• Don't Forget the Fraser
• Foothills Fishing Part I: St.Vrain Creeks and Area Lakes
• Floatin' and Fishin' the Arkansas
• Fishing a Legend: the South Platte
• Stay and Fish Awhile: Tarryall Creek
• Narrow Creeks and Narrow Gauge: Osier and Cascade Creeks
• A Stocking We Will Go... (or how do they get the fish into the lakes and rivers?)
• The Legendary North Platte
• Steamboat Lake - Year 'Round Fun
• And Now for Something Completely Different: Cochetopa and Los Pinos Creeks
• Suited to Fishing - the Taylor River
• Born to be Wild - the East River
• The Blue River - Where Blue is Gold
• A Mighty River in a Great State - the Colorado
• Gore Creek - an unpretentious Gold Medal Stream

Previous Reader Contributions

• Choosing Waders by Sara Golden
• How to Catch a Carp in 5 Days by Mike Limberg
• Dolores River Area Brookies by Shelley Walchak
• The Big Thompson by Josh Rickard
• Blue Mesa Salmon Fishing Bounces Back! by R. Richardson
• Early March South Platte Carp’in by Tad Howard
• South Platte River in February by Justin Hood
• Fishing Ouray County by Tim Patterson
• Spring Fishing in Colorado by Tad Howard
• Farmers Union of the South Platte by Karen Anderson
• Elevenmile Canyon by Michele White (Murray)
• Tying Pheasant Tails by Shilo Mathill
• The Uncompahgre by Bill Sheppard
• Floating the Gunnison through the Black Canyon by Trevor Dean
• Huge Taylor Trout
• Taylor Park Fishing by Michele White (Murray)
• Stonefly Fishing the Colorado River by Michele White (Murray)
• Catching Fish on the South Platte - NOT by Michele White (Murray)
• Fishing with Frozen Food on the Colorado River by Michele White (Murray)
• Beaverhead River near Twin Bridges, Montana by Michele White (Murray)
• Between the Rivers by Michele White (Murray)
• Summer Dreams by V. Herring
• Figuring Out Browns in the Rio Grande by Randall Powell
• The Big One that Didn't Get Away (Finally) by Terry Stahl
• Fly-fishing Trappers Lake - A Flat Tops Treat by Ron Belak
• More Taylor Trout from Kevin Nervick and Dave McNeill
• Taylor Trout from Kevin Nervick and Dave McNeill
• White River Cutthroat from Vic Collins
• Choosing Waders from Sara Golden

Have a fishing story, some photos or an amusing anecdote you'd like to share? We'd love to print it here for the enjoyment of our readers! Submit your story and/or photos via e-mail.

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