Fishing the San Juan

Allright, so one of the days at camp, I went with Rick (youth pastor from Peak Community Church in Fort Collins, CO), Lee and Jana (Lee was the youth pastor from Immanuel here in Fort Collins and Jana is his wife), and Chad, Jesse and Daniel (all from Chris Tomlin's band -- well Chad drives their tricked-out tour bus).

So I didn't catch anything in spite of seeing about 10,000 fish and having the same flies as everyone else -- not even one strike. Turns out I should have had a small split shot sinker attached to my leader. Oh well, I've never fished nymphs before so I'll chalk it up to experience. All the other guys caught something. Jesse and Daniel ended up fishing redneck style trying to wrangle one that jumped the hook using Daniel's ball cap.

I had a great time in spite of no fish and the extreme heat. I got to know Jesse, Janet (Jesse's wife), Chad and Daniel a little on the drive to and from fishing. Definitely a cool group of folks.

Lee and Jana are leaving Fort Collins to start a church somewhere in the Rockies here in Colorado, which, judging by Lee's love of fly-fishing will be a pretty sweet deal for him.

Daniel and Jesse were going to return to the spot we fished a few days later with some other folks. I didn't hear how they ended up doing, but they were hiring a guide so I imagine they did pretty well.