Cold Water Trout

The stream is bubbling nearby, cold drinks for later soaking in the water. Ten feet in back of you is a small, neat campfire with a pan holding a bit of warm bacon. What could be better? How about some freshly caught fish to sizzle?

There isn't a fish in the world as flavorful as the trout you have just gathered and cleaned, then fried up in a simple black iron pan right at the edge of the water.

You are drooling, I can tell.

First things first. Get up in the morning, yawn, and start the coffee. Oh yeah, it is another nice sunny day in Breckenridge, Colorado, and you are at 10,000 feet with a clear blue stream running right down the bank. What a trip this has been! Oh, but the best is yet to come. Down in the town, you were lucky enough to pick out a few choice hand-tied flies from a local shop, and it goes perfectly on the end of the tippet.

Pull out the line, and begin your casting series, back and forth, back and forth, until you can place that little lure right in the shadow of the boulder in the middle of the water, where it runs deep.

Wham! On the first cast that lands, a beautiful trout rises to snatch the fly, and you hook into a fighting fish. Only moments later, with the fish landed and cleaned out, the smell of the campfire stove radiates something amazing. Fresh fish, just out of the stream, served with a little bit of bacon, hot coffee, and something colder for afterwards. Soak in the surroundings and smile, it just doesn't get any better than this.