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Catching muskies is challenging
If Ohio has an ultimate game fish, that fish would have to be the muskie. They reach sizes of 50-plus pounds, fight ferociously and are temperamental and unpredictable enough to make catching them a challenge comparable to enticing an eight-pound brown trout with a fly. August can be a tough month to find one, especially if anglers use the same tactics they used in May and June. But even though they might seem to have lockjaw, the water is hot and their metabolism high, so they're eating a lot of forage fish now, and maybe a fishing lure too, if you present it right. .
Recovering with rods and reels
But the anglers who wear them quickly find these vests connect them with other men who share a common journey."Look at this," said Roger McClure, handing his fishing buddy his rod and shrugging off his vest.The vest McClure wore during the recent Reel Recovery retreat had been signed by anglers from all walks of life. All of them had cancer, and all had faced their own mortality. .
Gorging on beauty, trout
In that dim void between nightfall and moonrise, two arm-weary anglers drifted into sleepy chatter above the kettledrum throb of a rapid, watching the chiseled outline of a canyon wall slowly fade to black. A sudden racket from a garbage bag suspended in a tree brought the conversation wide awake. "Raccoons," Kirk Deeter declared, swinging a light beam to catch a bushy tail disappearing into the foliage. When the noise came again, the flashlight told the real story. That magnificent tail, more than twice the size of a coon's, belonged to a ringtail cat, a highly nocturnal and seldom-seen resident of the desert Southwest. The sighting, perhaps once in a lifetime, seemed appropriate for a river setting that is equally extraordinary. Of all the places where trout reside in Colorado, none lifts the bar of scenic beauty and fishing opportunity nearly so high as Gunnison Gorge.
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