by Jaimel Blajscczak | May 28, 2020 | Last Cast, SLV TU
Fishing for a Book By Marty Jones During our stay-at-home time, I’ve been revisiting my collection of books that are at least related to fishing. I can classify many of them roughly into these categories: How To, Where To, Why To, Who-Done-It-To, and Other. The...
by Jaimel Blajscczak | Mar 28, 2020 | Last Cast, SLV TU
By Mark Konishi As a kid growing up in the San Luis Valley, we would hear rumors of cutthroats with vivid colors being caught in secret waters. Cutthroats with orange slab-sides as brilliant as any goldfish. Many of the stories came from our classmate Jim, and it was...
by Jaimel Blajscczak | Feb 19, 2020 | Last Cast, SLV TU
Days of Speculation Mark Konishis As a fellow wildlife officer and I watched a deer decoy on a mountain road, we laughed about each ticket we wrote. We thought about the embarrassed hunters who couldn’t resist the temptation to shoot at our artificial buck. On nights...
by Jaimel Blajscczak | Nov 7, 2019 | Last Cast, SLV TU
A Few Thoughts on Tying Flies Marty Jones I had been fly-fishing for only a few months when I became convinced that tying flies was a logical next step in my evolution as a fisherman. This was likely a consequence of conversations with the folks who got me started...
by Jaimel Blajscczak | Sep 17, 2019 | Last Cast, SLV TU
Last Cast Moose on the Loose | Jeff Jones | Back in the late 90s and into the early 2000s, my family often visited a friend’s cabin on the Conejos, and almost every time we went up there, we’d stop at the now closed Fox Creek store and I’d ask what flies were working...
by Jaimel Blajscczak | Mar 9, 2019 | Last Cast, SLV TU
A Numbers Game By Marty Jones (I’ll bet you thought I was going to write about numbers of fish vs. quality/size of fish. Nope, hope you’re not too disappointed.) Number of years a resident of Colorado: 30 Number of years fly-fishing: 27 Number of states...
