Lifetime Angling Access
During the next 15 years, DTU estimates that over a billion dollars will be spent on restoration in the Denver South Platte (DSP). Together, we can make lifetime access to our own river possible.
By adding 10 lifetime beats to the DSP, with the help from local guides and DTU, we can maintain lifetime access to our river. DTU will pick beats and design a template for the engineers to include in their plans, along with their low flow channels and boulders. Biologists and Backhoe operators have a key role in placing rocks and boulders to keep sediment moving and to create fish habitat. When done properly, it can do amazing things. (Download the DTU Universal Angling Access Design Guide)
Fishing Your Home Waters
Fly Fishing is like any other sport, profession, or hobby. You've got to practice. Every experience fly angler will tell you, luck has nothing to do with it. Learning how to read the water and how to drift a fly through a likely feeding zone can be learned on any flowing water.
You don't have to travel hours to an iconic stream with hard to catch fish. Try your home water, nearby, or on the way to those stretches everyone fishes. This short video shows you what to look for and how those places you practice translate into the same structures on more popular rivers. One of the first steps is to turn over a rock to get an idea what your fly selection and sizes could be. In the video, our board member John Davenport, finds some mayflies, leeches, midges, and some pollution tolerant species. From this, he is able to conclude that this stream could hold some healthy fish.
If there is reasonable temperature flowing water, and aquatic insects, fish will find it. You'll be surprised what you might discover in those neglected and un-fished urban streams.
