San Juan Nat'l Forest, s/w Colorado:

Five o'clock air was scented with Douglas Fir. We're sitting at a picnic table not 10 feet from the edge of a small rocky mtn stream, a foot or two deep, 20 feet wide, thinking.. there's not enough water in there for a decent size fish to exist. After firing up the night's hot coals for what would be pork chops smothered in peppers & red onion, & mozeralla cheese, (chops bought on sale .99/lb..), a pop-out camper pulled down into the mostly-deserted campground, to seek out a faraway spot, eventually producing three k-6 age boys, riding banana seat bikes, pulling wheelies out of respect for the ABM black bike. Chops stiknking up the campground, We munch, the kids are whooping it up, yelling, & peeling around, fishing poles & one net, on their bikes. "Yeah, they'll scare the daylights outtta every fish within a quarter of a mile, & won't catch squat" I figured..................

By the time I burned up the chop bones in the pit fire, the kids were back. The oldest boy, with a nice 2 pound Rainbow. The two younger ankle-biters soon followed, each with 3-one pounders, on stringers. Geez, Louise, one fishy stream! This area, full of great opportunities, lake & stream. North of Durango, Co. Fish, after it quits raining for 5 days to a week, hit the fist of a full moon, but I'll bet the bite is on, constantly, to some degree. Is it stocked? Who cares!

Best part?

It cost $14 a day to camp right on the creek. For another three bucks, you can have electricity! $17/day. With the free Rainbows, that's ABM heaven!

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