John Berry Trout Fishing Articles

[blindset61]

I've been meaning to post my appreciation for the John Berry articles on trout fishing.  I did a little trout fishing on the little red this summer and it is a pretty steep learning curve-for sure the fly fishing aspect of it.  

I attended an AR G&F class on fly tying and it was real enjoyable.  Two flys were "tied" by class participants and the Wooley Booger was a real winner.  I fished the fly below the dam the morning after the class and caught four nice rainbows on it-would have been five except the fifth liked it so much he kept it.

Anyway, Kevin keep up posting Mr. Berry's articles-they are like cold water to a thirsty fly fisher trainee.

[Kevin]

Yeah I love his articles. I contacted him when we first started this site and told him I would love to use him as a resource on the site because his articles were such good learning tools. He was all for it.

I was born and raised just east of Mountain Home, but I didn't start fly fishing until about 3 years ago and I have to tell you, I feel like my childhood was a damn waste!

Now, there is nothing I would rather do than fling a fly. As some of you know I moved to Wyoming a couple of months ago and now I get to fish at least a couple of times a week. I think the longer I live here the more I will learn and the better fly fisherman I will become. People here are nuts about it.

Here pretty soon I'm going to get a page for the site that lists hatch charts/schedules for the white, red, etc. I think that would be a nice addition for beginning fly fishermen.

[blindset61]

That's a good state to live in.  Don't know where your at, but in the late '60s I worked one summer out of Saratoga in the Medicine Bow Natl. Forest.  Will never forget it.  There was a stream close to the Forest Service barracks that was full of brook trout.  Another forestry student and I caught a mess of them every few days.  All we did was gut them, roll them in cornmeal and fry them up.  They were sure good.  A few times we fished the Platte and a few high country lakes, but those little brookies and browns were sure fun to catch.

[Kevin]

That's awesome. I'm in Laramie. I live about 20 minutes west of town, and the Medicine Bow National Forest is basically my backyard. I fish the Platte as much as I can, and it's definitely my favorite river up here. I pulled a nice 16 inch rainbow out of there Sunday. Sometimes I fish the Big Laramie and sometimes I fish those mountain lakes up in the Snowies too. Kinds of places that are so pretty you really don't care if you catch anything or not.