little fish and widespread traffic

so with the heat we've been having, fishing for the big rainbows and browns in the yampa river has been slow at best. to combat these summer doldrums, and to get the dogs out on a hike with me, we walked into soda creek on buff pass on saturday morning for a little bit of brookie fishing.

brook trout are native to the mountain brooks and streams in the eastern part of this country, but were transplanted out west in the late 1800's. in larger rivers they can grow to 3 or 4 pounds, but they're also particularly adept at finding their ecological niche in marginal conditions. they do very well, and stay pretty small, in small mountain creeks where the water is thin and fast, and bug life minimal. very well indeed...

i caught 42 spunky little guys in about 3 hours.

i don't really count my fish (really i don't!), but i knew this was going to be a prolific day so i figured what the hell.

they are truly beautiful fish.

on sunday, jenn and i went over to winter park to post fliers for our upcoming jebus show on the 29th. we got to tabernash, 9 miles west of winter park, and promptly came to a halt, at which point we remembered that widespread panic was in town. after moving 200 yards in 10 minutes, we scrapped our plans, did a u-turn, and headed home.

i used this photo of sadie for the jebus flier.

link o' the day:

can't remember if i've provided an etymology of jebus before, but here it is according to wikipedia.