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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 23, 2016 Fishing report
fishing reportGreetings Everyone!
Started out this morning with a 20 mile round trip bike ride! It’s a great way to check out the morning conditions as I get my workout in for the day. This morning at about eight, I headed downstream from Trumbull to Nighthawk. Pretty much from Bridge Crossing, downstream to Nighthawk, I saw fish rising on the Trico’s that were thick the entire way to the end of the pavement. About ten-Thirty I got in the river and still had a single Parachute Adams tied on from the night before. Two quick tosses to a sipping brown I noticed near the granite wall and I was hooked up! Realizing the fish was big enough to break off my 7x tippet, I had to let it run while trying to keep it from running deep, tangling and breaking me off. After a few runs upstream and then back down, I was able to work the fish to a shallower rock bar and netted the nice 16″ brown trout. As the rising settled down, I switched over to a two-fly nymphing rig with a grey stone fly, trailing with a bead-headed black beauty. I took two more browns with this combination, almost back to back. I didn’t go out again this evening, as the rain has moved into the valley. Flows today below Cheesman were 284 cfs, Trumbull, below brush creek was at 304 cfs. Clarity is great, but their is some moss to deal with. Back tomorrow with another update. Have a great evening!
Chris
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August 22, 2016 Fishing Report
fishing reportGood Evening!
Welcome back to my fishing report, courtesy of my good friend Joe, ,who has found a way for me to blog while my site undergoes an update. Thanks Joe! The 8/8:30am trico hatch is still producing until about mid-morning, then it’s been mostly nymphing until the evening hours. Underneath, I’ve seen and had good success with the black two-bit hooker #20-22, chocolate thunder, grey sparkle wing RS-2, and even took a few aggressive browns on my second fly, which was a purple San Juan worm. On the dry side of things, we’ve seen a multitude of flies pulling fish, from Decker’s through Trumbull. As I road cycle Platte river road each morning, I’ve been covered in Trico’s from Nighthawk, then all the way upstream to Bridge Crossing. Later , about 9:30, when I returned to Trumbull, I saw a big hatch Blue-Winged Olives, occurring along the banks. Heading into the evening, we’re catching fish on dry-dropper rigs with a Chernoble, Amy’s Ant, and a yellow sallie, then trailing with a variety of dropper flies, some of which are the #20-26 Parachute Adams, griffiths gnat, and a bwo or pmd. The crowds have thinned since school began and the weather is great! More to come tomorrow with updated flows, clarity and more involved bug report! Have a great evening!
Chris
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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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