I need your help. Growing a MOUSTACHE! Yep, growing a MOUSTACHE! We’re getting a late start but it is not too late to represent Movember (formerly known as November) in Montana. Here’s the short:Mo stands for Moustache. Which you will spend the remainder of November growing (no beards).To raise money and awareness and funds for men’s cancers. I’m doing it. And you should join the Mo-Tana Team too.

Sign up here: http://us.movember.com/register/63092.Spread the word to all (friends, family, twitter, facebook, etc). It will be mo-fo fun- for a cause.

If you just want to donate, you can do that too http://us.movember.com/mospace/379030/Thank you in advance for your contributions, support, and team membership! We’ll be throwing an end of the month Movember in Mo-tana Party to show off our mo-stashes and celebrate our fur-lipped war on cancer.

Learn more about Movember by watching the Intro Video at http://us.movember.com/Mo-Tana Unite!
Cheers,

Blanco Honky

In our minds one of the keys to a great angling experience is to fish in a really remote location. It's nice not having a lot of people around, and in general, remote locations make for better fishing. Guess what - our lodges are all really remote.

On the other hand, if you're out in the middle of nowhere and take a hook in the eye or have a stroke, you'd better have a really good plan in place to get help.

We learned a little more than a year ago about a company called Global Rescue that provides medical assistance and evacuation services everywhere in the world where we operate. If you are seriously ill or injured and are more than 160 miles from home, Global Rescue will advise and transport you to the hospital of your choice - free of charge. After doing our research, we decided that these service are so important that all of our guests should be covered.

Starting in January of 2010, all trips with Deneki Outdoors include Global Rescue coverage at no additional cost to our anglers. It's as simple as that - you're covered.

To learn more about Global Rescue, have a look here.

Fishing trips are all about good times, but a little peace of mind never hurts, does it?

Any of you out there who are interested in steelhead in the Northwest, particularly in the state of Washington, listen up.

We've been doing some work with our friends at Trout Unlimited and MoldyChum.com to provide the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife with information about how important wild steelhead are to anglers who fish in Washington. Starting right now, you can respond to a survey on MoldyChum.com about wild steelhead in Washington, and your vote will go straight to the WDFW. We think you should vote.

With that, here's more from the boys at Moldy Chum about the survey.

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Tis the season to gear up for Winter steelheading. For us in Washington, it comes in two phases - the hatchery run followed by the wild run. And when Moldy Chum prioritizes its calendar weekends for the next six months, February, March, and April take pole position. It's not a priority fueled by quantity or percentages but rather one defined by experience. It is this experience that has incented Trout Unlimited and Moldy Chum to ask for your help.

We invite all Moldy Chum friends and followers to take 1 minute to answer this survey that asks how much anglers in Washington state value wild steelhead as opposed to hatchery-reared fish. The data gathered, non-scientific though it may be, will be provided to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

“We’d like to find out just how important the experience of catching a wild steelhead is to the recreational angler in Washington,” said Rob Masonis, vice president of Western Conservation for TU. “From a conservation standpoint, we worry that hatchery fish are diluting wild stocks and reducing the hearty nature of steelhead in the Northwest. But we recognize the overall importance of steelhead to the recreational angler. I guess it boils down to a simple question: would you rather catch a wild fish or a hatchery fish?”

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To respond to the survey, click here. Thanks.

1. find a fishing buddy

2. wade to the middle of the stream

3. stand really close together (it is easiest if you are cast with opposite hands)

4. cast as hard as you can

5. downstream

6. with a dry fly

Today we present the second in our three-part series by Charles St. Pierre on his trip to BC West in August of 2009.

If you haven't read part one yet, you're going to want to start here.

On with the story!

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During the course of a trip with Chile West, anglers fish a variety of rivers and the Rio Palena or Palena River is just one of the many.

Sometimes it's hard to pick which super-cool Cameron Miller picture from Alaska West to post, just because we've got so darned many.

Today's edition is just a nice, normal, beautiful Alaska West rainbow trout underwater shot- heavily spotted, nice red stripe, and with a very run-of-the-mill fly in its mouth. Wait a second - that's not a run-of-the-mill fly - it's a giant floating mouse pattern! That angler must have had some fun.

2) Dolores- Gross... seriously, this is a trick.

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Let’s chat a little about fishing over the next few weeks. This is the time when fall turns to winter for good. In Southern Colorado along the Arkansas we can expect about 4 more weeks of good fishing during good stretches of weather. Intermittent snow storms will pass through leaving large amounts in the high country and smaller ones along the lower river. The water around Leadville is already very slow with cold evening temperatures. You can expect to see some beautiful days from Salida to Canon City through Thanksgiving. If lows are in the low teens, expect the following day to be marginal with fish hugging the bottom of deeper pools and runs, especially as they finish spawning and need to rest. Males will chase streamers over the next month, so come prepared for that. I love the Gray Ghost pattern during November. Also Woolly Buggers, Spruce Flies, and Squirrel Streamers will do the trick in natural, olive and orange. The South Platte will continue to fish well probably all winter. Brown trout spawning is in full bloom and closer to the end than the beginning. Some of the large post spawn fish will more than likely stay in the river all winter. Then they will resort to eating midge larva. I still like to fish them behind an orange egg pattern or a pink San Juan Worm. So fishing is still about and the weather is still agreeable for the most part. For those of us who fish all winter, there is no end to the season......we just look like the Michelin Man on the water.

Things are changing a bit with our long standing Alaska business. Taylor has resigned from Clearwater Lodge in Bristol Bay. Royal Gorge Anglers is no longer associated with Alaska's Clearwater Lodge, Lake Marie Lodge or To Toy Lon Lodge. Taylor is now the owner/operator of SoCO Guides, our guide service, and has taken a marvelous opportunity to represent the Wright & McGill Company of Denver for the Rocky Mountain Region. His new job with Wright & McGill will keep him on the road a lot, but he'll be working out of Canon City and will still be able to run the guide program and guide a lot himself. If you have been wanting to spend a day with Taylor on the Arkansas or South Platte, particularly for the Rainbow runs in the Spring, now's the time to contact us for a trip. His calendar for the South Platte in March will fill quickly. Next summer, he and I will host several trips to Alaska. These will be "turn key" trips and we'll take care of transportation, hotels and everything else once you reach Anchorage. The trip I'm very happy about will be on the Kvichak River at Blueberry Island Lodge. It's only a couple of miles downriver from Clearwater Lodge. Blueberry sits in the middle of the river on a long sweeping island and is owned by George Riddle and his wife. The fishing around the island itself is spectacular. George is a wonderful guide and person and has been on the Kvichak since the 70s. We'll take a maximum of six people there twice during the season, one in the fall for trout and one in July for Sockeye. Taylor will guide these trips along with George and another of Taylor's crew from this year. This is a close knit little lodge and you'll feel like you are sitting around you own dinner table at night. Price will be $3200.00 per person plus airfare to anchorage and from Anchorage to Iguigig. Taylor will arrange charter from Anchorage and he can get great prices due to his relationships with the charter companies. We'll also host a Trip to Rainbow Point Lodge on the Copper River at Lake Illiamna. The exact week and exact price will be posted on our web site in the very near future. It will likely be a week during prime Rainbow season as well. Rainbow Point is a small luxury lodge with fly outs and floats. The price on this trip will likely be around $7000 per person, but we’re trying to see what we can finalize that may be a little better than that. So, you’ll see Taylor’s face around here a lot more when you come in the shop and I am ecstatic about that. There is nothing better in the world than having your son take over where you leave off. Jan and I have worked very hard for twenty years in this business and we are delighted that Taylor wanted to join us in giving you even better service in the future. We’ll still be here of course……where else would we want to be? Taylor will provide some much needed help and a spark of youth that we all can use every now and then. Things are good around Royal Gorge Anglers.

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