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Mountain streams, ponds offer Red River anglers plenty of action
RED RIVER, N.M. — When trout fishing in the waters in the Sangre de Cristo Mountain range, you have two choices, the pristine, clear streams or any of the various ponds which are stocked throughout the year. Obviously, there is an advantage to each. There seems to be no better place on earth when you are standing in or by a fast-flowing mountain stream, surrounded by an Alpine forest, almost chilled to the bone (in July, at that) and carefully drifting a fly across a small pocket near a rocky bank. You hold your breath as you await the lightning-fast hit of a rainbow, brown, brook or cutthroat trout. The streams are stocked well and often by the Department of New Mexico Game & Fish with most experienced anglers culling to a five-fish limit (in most areas) or catching and releasing in order to perpetuate the existence of many trout.
Fly-fishing class back for a second year
Belleville's two resident fly-fishing experts -- Jim Laing and Brad Eilering -- are ready to dole out more knowledge about their passion to the general public. The pair will teach "Introduction to Casting a Fly Rod" beginning Sept. 16 at Southwestern Illinois College. Offered through SWIC's community education series, the class will benefit casters at all levels with lessons on equipment, casting, presentation and lore. It's the second year Laing and Eilering, who have fly-fished all across the United States since 1991, have taught the class. It was such a hit last year they decided to offer it again, this time with a beginners and advanced class. "I think what makes it successful is us being able to help people find the local waters here and get them started," Laing said.
A Sound Sleep and a Single Fish
BLOOMINGTON, Md. I like a good sleep as much as the next man, but is even the soundest snooze worth a three-hour drive, particularly with gasoline at $3 a gallon? "I thought we were supposed to be catching big trout," I groused to Jay Sheppard last week after eight hours flogging the storied waters of the Savage River and North Branch of the Potomac here in the highlands of Western Maryland. "Where's all the fish?" .
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