FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

Knockin Tail Lures by My Coast Outdoors

We are finally settled in and get stuff just the way we like it.  Then I got a butt kicking cold which knocked me down a few days, at least there was plenty of fo0tball to watch.  Finally this morning time for us to make our favorite drive, and boy was that a good choice.

Time to chase some animals, and we rolled forward 10 feet in the driveway and the day was on.

These 2 had at it.

The fight was on.

The guy on the right finally banished the contender.

It has been a little different as there is not much snow down here at 8,400 feet and the days have been around 40 degrees give or take.  We are seeing mule deer and Rocky Mountain Bighorns rutting and chasing and the turkeys are doing their usual thing.  The fight this morning was a good one and we never get tired of seeing them.  (I have video of some of the fight on the camera but just can’t get it off.  Hopefully later.) But there was more to come.

We see lots of coyotes.  Hard to get them to cooperate.

Amazing this pic is as good as it is.  Taken with the 600mm fully extended as far as it would reach.  That camera will make a photographer out of anyone.  As I have said in the past this is not Yellowstone where a tourist and a truck are part of their scenery.  There are true wild animals, and you have to take what you get.  That is also why I don’t doctor them; they are what they are.

We headed north of Creede and ended up in Lake City.  On the way we saw a small bunchof immature rams but until we headed up to search for moose did we score big time on the sheep.  In the mountains you just never know when and where it will happen.  But when it does not only do you get some cool pics, you also get to truly watch them.

He ended up having a few friends with him.

Not giants but respectable rams.  They are getting their winter coat and putting on weight.

The front coming in had them on the move.

Like this, just weird.  Brain teaser at first.

And last was this bunch that had the big boy in the middle running herd.

With the weather being what it is the elk are hard to find.  It has not driven them way down to their winter haunts but they will be coming.  And not a moose in sight.  This was our first real lets find some animals so there is more to come.

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One thing I will be adding to the list probably next year is a little ice fishing.

Being a Saturday the ice fishermen were hard at it on the couple of local lakes you can still get at.

Lake City is a cool little town about 75 miles north of South Fork after going past Creede.  It is fairly isolated due to the road to get there but is a fly fishing, snowmobiling, and atv mecca.  Add Lake San Cristobal and you have a cool mountain getaway.  First you cross the Continental Divide at 10,000 feet and then the big pass at 12,000.  There is snow up top now but not the usual amount.  Snow in the mountains is important for the valley farmers much less the fish.  After you top the pass Lake City is at the bottom of the valley on a winding highway.  Today there was no snow cover on the road like other times we have visited in the winter.  When it has some cover let me just say the ride is “interesting’.   We will be headed back up there for the Ice Climbing shindig in February.

We are enjoying the mountains, and the Boss is finally figuring out for real, you don’t have to go to work.  Texas is in our rear-view mirror and this is our new life.  Next week it is driver licenses and then we will be real Coloradans.  And thanks to all the well wishes you have sent along, we appreciate each and every one.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines

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