Howdy all from the blue skies and snowy mountain peaks of Colorado!
Below is an article on our very own professional fishing guide, Robert Younghanz, who teaches fly-fishing lessons at the ranch on Tuesdays during our Colorado guest ranch season. He is very enthusiastic and his love for flies and fly-fishing is simply contagious! He is an expert on bugs and the science of fishing.
If you have a fish lover in the family or are yourself, head out to Tarryall and let Robert share his expertise. He will uncover a new love for fishing never experienced before!
Kody Tesch
Entomology is your friend, fly-fisherman
By Scott Willoughby
The Denver Post
Anglers interested in catching more trout have long been encouraged to “think like a fish.”
Robert Younghanz suggests thinking like a bug might help more.
“I think it’s ironic that people aren’t comfortable with aquatic entomology simply because it’s really the fulcrum of everything we do in fly-fishing,” Younghanz said. “You can be a horrible caster and eventually work it out. You can eventually learn to decipher fish feeding behavior. You can learn to read water. But, ultimately, without insects, we don’t have fly-fishing. If you want to go out there and be successful and not just guessing, you need to know your bugs.”
Going by the title of “The Bug Guy,” Younghanz describes himself as an aquatic entomologist, fly-fishing guide and instructor working through the Angler’s Covey in Colorado Springs. He’s also the “star” of a new double DVD, “The Bug Guy: Entomology for the Fly Fisher,” designed to take the fear out of fishing.
“It’s the hardest thing to learn in fly-fishing,” Younghanz said. “It’s funny how it gets dismissed because people are intimidated by the discipline. Yet, when they take the time to go out there and learn it, their fishing production goes up exponentially. That’s proven all the time.”
As a first-time presenter at last weekend’s International Sportsmen’s Expo in Denver, Younghanz drew crowds throughout the weekend as he walked anglers through the basics of bugs. But the aquarium set up at his booth proved to be the bigger showstopper, crawling with impressively large insects known as Hesperoperla pacifica, a medium brown stonefly he pulled out of the
South Platte River near Deckers before dawn on the cold winter morning the convention got underway.
“This is one of your first big stoneflies that’s actually going to emerge across the United States, as early as March. But people don’t know about it, even though it offers a chance to get into some big fish,” Younghanz said. “Last spring I went out to the South Platte at Deckers and everyone was fishing these little size 22-24 midges, teeny stuff. And I walk out with a size 10 black Pat’s Rubber Leg because I knew these guys were moving, and I caught the largest trout I’ve ever caught on the South Platte other than the Dream Stream — a 7½-pound rainbow that was almost 26 inches.”
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