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August 2, 2016,
Good evening folks!
As stated in a few of my last morning blogs, I’m going to start sharing my daily fitness program, along with my personal meal plan that I’ve designed myself. Since my websites launch on June 8, 2016, I’ve lost over 40 pounds by simply sticking to a diet that is made up mostly of fruits, nuts, vegetables, and lean proteins. Even more importantly, I have removed many bad choices completely from my diet and will detail those in tomorrow’s blog. I have also maintained a pretty serious level of physical activity that includes hiking the National Forest each morning for approximately an hour and a half to three hours. As a benchmark to my progress, we have a particular hill climb that we climb three times a week. This hill climb is made up of 7 different steep sections, each hill averaging 2-3 hundred yards of a 12-15 percent grade. In between the steep hills there is about 100-200 feet of rolling trail that meanders around the mountain side as a set up for the next climb. According to a recording device my friend usually wears, this climb is equivalent 66 flights of stairs, according to the Fitbit http://www.Fitbit.com. The trail surface is made of mostly crushed granite, which provides another challenge as it resembles the climbing of a beach sand dune. I’ll be tracking and sharing all of my daily fitness numbers on an easy to read chart when my new Fitbit arrives. In addition to doing this particular climb three times a week, I am hiking 2 miles round trip, twice a day, 7 days a week to go bag ice for the Decker’s Country Store. This is also a nice upper body workout after a nice morning hike. The consistency of this easy to moderate stroll along the South Platte provides me a nice 15 to 20 minute cool down period after climbing the steeper hills. This also allows me to scout the river for bug and fish activity, shoot a few photos, and work on my fishing report. In just a few more days, when a few needed bike parts arrive, I’ll be adding a 20 mile bike ride, 4 times weekly, to my daily workout routine. This is the same route I trained on daily for the 2014 Ride the Rockies. This cycling event, in it’s 29 year of existence, was a 565 mile road ride that took 2,500 riders, including myself, over 6 mountain passes and climbed over 35,000 feet in total elevation gain, over a 6 day period in June of 2014. My training ride is a 10 mile out and back ride on hwy 67, that provides an initial 3 hill climb section of five miles, followed with a five 5 mile valley ride that has smooth asphalt and some good winding curves. This sections is particularly good for working on my cycling cadence and also for the sprint sections. More on the daily cycling when the parts arrive and I’m back on the road! In August of 2014, after the successful tour ride, I suffered a shoulder injury at the USA Pro-Challenge event in Fort Collins, Colorado. I have put the shoulder through some in-house rehab and I’m probably about 60% better than I was this time last year. As you can probably see, my success is coming from the consistency. I consistency exercise every day and I consistently think about, watch, and record everything that I put into my body. This way, I hold myself accountable to what I eat by simply taking two to three seconds to ask myself a very simple question. Is this a want, or is this a need? This my friends has been instrumental in stopping me from making a bad choice with food or beverage. Tomorrow I will share more about the diet plan and the specifics of what I’m eating daily, but right now I’ve got to get some sleep! Big hike in the morning! Picking my own fresh, wild raspberries to make my next batch of Kombucha! The gallery I’m posting tonight will show you some of the meals that I have prepared for myself and housemate in the last couple of weeks and some of the fun shots I’ve taken of residents, visitors and guests to our little part of paradise! As I walk the river each and everyday, I look forward to sharing with you some of the moments I capture while exploring and reporting news and events in our neck of the woods. Please feel free to comment and I look forward to hearing from you soon through our comment section. I hope you follow along with me each day on this quest to achieve optimal health and wellness through diet, exercise and positive living! Have a great evening!
Chris
August 21, 2016 Back to fishing
fishing reportGood evening folks! Sorry for the absence of the daily fishing report and blog. Although I have the internet in the National Forest, I’m currently experiencing a problem specific to my location at the bottom of a canyon. I have found a temporary fix that will allow me to continue to post a daily blog, however, I will not be ale to add pictures at this time. The daily fishing report will return tomorrow, along with current river flow and a “bug” update! Thank you for your patience as we remedy this situation.
Chris
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August 3, 2016 Morning River Report
fishing reportGood Morning Folks!
Howdy, and welcome back to the only daily river report from the South Platte River Valley. We’ve got another warm day on tap for the valley today, with temperatures reaching the low 90’s. Currently, it’s 56 degrees and slightly overcast, with the chance of thunderstorms throughout the day. The flow out of Cheesman this morning is moving at an even 200(cfs), 215 in Decker’s, and 238 in Trumbull. Checking the water temperature just a few moments ago at hole in the wall, we’re sitting right at 50.4. Between the hikes and the landscaping yesterday, I was able to squeeze in two sessions of fishing. First, I was nymphing around noon, with good success tossing a two-fly rig made up of a Chernobyl Ant, trailing a grey/tan Hare’s Ear. After the morning Caddis and Trico hatches, the fish went deep and it took the addition of two more split shots below my indicator bug to get down to where the fish were feeding. Later in the evening, I fished the section just upstream from my house, between the second Decker’s bridge and Trumbull. The evening rise wasn’t a good as the night before, but I did manage to scare up a few strikes on yellow stimulator, trailing a Parachute Adams. As I usually make my way back through Decker’s on my way to Trumbull each morning, the section between the two bridges have been very active with hatch activity. Caddis, trico’s, PMD’S, and BWO’S have been thick from about 8:45-12:00pm. Keep in mind that this section of the river also sees lots of tubing activity on the weekend, but there is plenty of great fishing opportunities further downstream, away from the masses as they begin their float downstream. With that being said, don’t miss out on all the open water from Bridge Crossing to the Confluence. That’s all for now my friends! Off to hike the forest, get in a workout, and shoot a few photos! Have a great day and I’ll see you back here this evening!
Chris
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August 2, 2016 Evening Recap
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August 2, 2016,
Good evening folks!
As stated in a few of my last morning blogs, I’m going to start sharing my daily fitness program, along with my personal meal plan that I’ve designed myself. Since my websites launch on June 8, 2016, I’ve lost over 40 pounds by simply sticking to a diet that is made up mostly of fruits, nuts, vegetables, and lean proteins. Even more importantly, I have removed many bad choices completely from my diet and will detail those in tomorrow’s blog. I have also maintained a pretty serious level of physical activity that includes hiking the National Forest each morning for approximately an hour and a half to three hours. As a benchmark to my progress, we have a particular hill climb that we climb three times a week. This hill climb is made up of 7 different steep sections, each hill averaging 2-3 hundred yards of a 12-15 percent grade. In between the steep hills there is about 100-200 feet of rolling trail that meanders around the mountain side as a set up for the next climb. According to a recording device my friend usually wears, this climb is equivalent 66 flights of stairs, according to the Fitbit http://www.Fitbit.com. The trail surface is made of mostly crushed granite, which provides another challenge as it resembles the climbing of a beach sand dune. I’ll be tracking and sharing all of my daily fitness numbers on an easy to read chart when my new Fitbit arrives. In addition to doing this particular climb three times a week, I am hiking 2 miles round trip, twice a day, 7 days a week to go bag ice for the Decker’s Country Store. This is also a nice upper body workout after a nice morning hike. The consistency of this easy to moderate stroll along the South Platte provides me a nice 15 to 20 minute cool down period after climbing the steeper hills. This also allows me to scout the river for bug and fish activity, shoot a few photos, and work on my fishing report. In just a few more days, when a few needed bike parts arrive, I’ll be adding a 20 mile bike ride, 4 times weekly, to my daily workout routine. This is the same route I trained on daily for the 2014 Ride the Rockies. This cycling event, in it’s 29 year of existence, was a 565 mile road ride that took 2,500 riders, including myself, over 6 mountain passes and climbed over 35,000 feet in total elevation gain, over a 6 day period in June of 2014. My training ride is a 10 mile out and back ride on hwy 67, that provides an initial 3 hill climb section of five miles, followed with a five 5 mile valley ride that has smooth asphalt and some good winding curves. This sections is particularly good for working on my cycling cadence and also for the sprint sections. More on the daily cycling when the parts arrive and I’m back on the road! In August of 2014, after the successful tour ride, I suffered a shoulder injury at the USA Pro-Challenge event in Fort Collins, Colorado. I have put the shoulder through some in-house rehab and I’m probably about 60% better than I was this time last year. As you can probably see, my success is coming from the consistency. I consistency exercise every day and I consistently think about, watch, and record everything that I put into my body. This way, I hold myself accountable to what I eat by simply taking two to three seconds to ask myself a very simple question. Is this a want, or is this a need? This my friends has been instrumental in stopping me from making a bad choice with food or beverage. Tomorrow I will share more about the diet plan and the specifics of what I’m eating daily, but right now I’ve got to get some sleep! Big hike in the morning! Picking my own fresh, wild raspberries to make my next batch of Kombucha! The gallery I’m posting tonight will show you some of the meals that I have prepared for myself and housemate in the last couple of weeks and some of the fun shots I’ve taken of residents, visitors and guests to our little part of paradise! As I walk the river each and everyday, I look forward to sharing with you some of the moments I capture while exploring and reporting news and events in our neck of the woods. Please feel free to comment and I look forward to hearing from you soon through our comment section. I hope you follow along with me each day on this quest to achieve optimal health and wellness through diet, exercise and positive living! Have a great evening!
Chris
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8/2/16 Morning river report
fishing reportGood Morning!
Up early and getting ready to head out for an early morning hike my friends, but let’s talk a bit about what’s happening on the South Platte river today! Not much change in the flow since yesterday. We’ve still got 187 (cfs) at Cheesman Dam, about 215 (cfs) in Decker’s, and 243 (cfs) in Trumbull. Clarity is great, as we have not seem much rain in the last couple of days, but the moss is another story. Looking like we’re going to have another warm day with temps in the upper 80’s, with a chance of early thundershowers. Mid-mornings continue to produce significant hatches, resulting in some pretty good dry-fly action from about 9am until noon. After the Trico’s are finished off around noon, I’ve been throwing a terrestrial, followed with a variety of nymphs, midges and emerging bugs, such as the Grey RS-2, buckskin, Black Beauty, and of course, the Chocolate Thunder. All of these bugs can be purchased at Flies and Lies. http://www.flies-n-lies.com Around 7:30/8, the top water activity really seems to pick up. Stay out there as long as you can and bring plenty of bug repellent! Don’t forget to get up here early on the weekends, as the areas upstream from the Decker’s bridge tend to fill up quickly. Remember! there is plenty of great water to fish downstream of Decker’s, through Trumbull and down to the Confluence. Campground space is limited folks, so make your reservations for Lone Rock Campground right here. http://www.reserveamerica.com/camping/lone-rock-campground-co/r/campgroundDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&parkId=70054 That’s all for now folks! Have a great day and I’ll be back to post on the evening river conditions, along with DAY 1 of my new fitness and wellness program!
Chris
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August 1, 2016 Daily river review
fishing reportGood Morning!
Welcome back my friends! Waking up to cooler temperatures in the valley this morning. Getting to the point where the windows are getting closed before bed! Right now we’ve got 47 degrees with plenty of sunshine on the way and and a forecast high of 89. The crowds were big this past weekend and the fish got pounded pretty hard through the Decker’s area. It’s days like this that I like to go a little further downstream to work on some fish that may have not seen so much pressure over the weekend. Alright, the flow out of Cheesman this morning is 187 (cfs), 200/210 (cfs) through Decker’s, and 249 (cfs) in Trumbull. Water temperature is 48 degrees and we are going to start to see a gradual temperature drop as the summer season winds down. With no water coming over the spill-way, all the water that is released from the Cheesman Dam is cooler and coming from the bottom. This will affect the hatch as we get further into August and September. Right now, the fish are actively feeding on the smorgasbord of both dry and sub-surface bugs! When it comes to the dry flies, I’ve been having good success throwing a single Parachute BWO or a single Trico (Rusty-spinner), as I personally don’t always like to throw a two or three fly rig! On the nymphing side of things, I’ve seen the Chocolate Thunder pull fish left and right, to the point where my buddy was throwing a double dropper rig with two of these bugs below a Pat’s Rubber Legs. Along with the “thunder” I would have to say that I heard the grey RS-2 was also a hot bug over the weekend. Numerous Anglers spoke to me about the effectiveness of this bug over the last five or six days. The hatches in the evening have been late, but worth waiting for. Fishing the banks with a single dry or dry-dropper rig will usually get results as the fish are sipping on the floating buffet of Trico’s! Don’t hesitate to throw that hopper or streamer if you don’t see the rise on the banks. I’ve pulled several fish by tossing the “Wooley Bugger” to the banks and shallows later in the evening. Alrighty folks! That’s it for now. Heading out later this evening to try my luck on the Platte! Have a great day and I’ll see you back here again this evening!
Chris
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