In Between Rivers:Newest Fly Fishing Blog

My Newest endeavor with a few of my partners-in-crime! See ya there!

Cel Dor Asado: Traditional Uruguayan Wood Fired Grill

I spent the day doing what I live for...what keeps me alive and breathing...chasing birds with dogs and tossing a few dries (beetles today) to hungry trout on a very small creek in the Arkansas River Valley and the mountains that I adore more than any...the Sangre De Cristo's!

I ate at a very wonderful restaurant tonight that I wanted to share with my readers! I was slightly hesitant and reserved about eating in town because my last dinning experience across the street was much less than memorable! How can someone screw up cheese enchiladas...

Cel Dor Asado is a diamond in the rough! A gustatory delight! I had the rib-eye special that the owner herself cooked for me on a bed of oak coals that was to die for! I can't hardly wait to go back!

For anyone interested:

Cel Dor Asado
Traditional Uruguayan Wood Fired Grill
213 Main St
Westcliffe, Colorado
(719) 783-2650

See ya there!

Colorful Colorado

Today, I spent the day doing what I've been wanting to try all Summer...fishing above the treeline for Colorado cutthroats on a lake not to far from my cabin. It was cold and windy today at > 12,000 ft, but a glorious day to be out! Here's some photos from the day! To bad every day can't be spent like this...oh yes, I finished the day off with Carne Asada at a local Mexican joint in Salida, Colorado...life doesn't get any better!

Purple Shadows on the Prairie...Sage Y'hickens, It's What's for Dinner!

Tonight I returned from north central Colorado where Sterling and I had a grand ol' time chasing greater sage grouse on the wide open prairie. I know I've said this many times before, but I love sage grouse and the spaces which they inhabit! To me, they define the American West and what remains truly wild. The weather was near perfect up there for us. We found a few extras as well. Ellie had her very first encounter with a porcupig which was out in the middle of the sage prairie...first time I've ever seen one that far from the trees. I also found a very nice flint bird point near where the grouse were. I couldn't help but imagine the person who made it, out there on the sage prairie, years before us in hot pursuit of sage chickens for dinner!

We stayed at a wonderful inn where Walter and I had dinner last year...it was pleasantly surprising, and we'll be staying there again next year as I plan to make reservations much further in advance (that is unless the Feds close down the sage grouse season).

The grouse were there too, but we had to burn up some boot leather in order to find them. What a glorious weekend...I'll be dreaming of sage chickens for days to come!

Grousing for Trout!

Today was my first chance to chase blue grouse in colorful Colorado this season. It was an awesome day. It felt great to be alive in the uplands & listening to that familiar clank-clank of the dogs' bells and getting reacquainted with my ol' Spanish love affair...my AYA 453 box lock. We didn't find the grouse where I saw them a month ago, but it was a wonderful day none-the-less! The dogs are in good shape...Summer conditioning has certainly paid off! Saturday they will be turned loose on the wide open sage brush prairie of north central Colorado in pursuit of purple bombers...sage chickens!

I did manage to toss a few stimulators at greenback cutthroats and brook trout on my very favorite small steam...what more could a nimrod ask for? NOTHING...except maybe to bag the farmer's beautiful daughter...but that's a whole another chapter altogether!

I'll be seeing ya on the prairies! Be safe and put your dogs' needs and safety above everything else!



Colorado Greenback Cutthroat

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