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Article: TROUT SURELY NOTICE SUBTLE SIGNS OF SPRING.(Sports)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- March 13, 2002
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Byline: Ed Dentry News Outdoors Writer
Portents of spring are waxing restless under river rocks, hidden from view by all but the most observant of trout fishers.
The portents are subtle, unless you happen to be a trout. They are measured in millimeters. Anglers dipping bug seines in the gradually warming waters of downstream river reaches can bag plenty of proof.
``We are on the verge,'' said Bill Edrington of the Royal Gorge Anglers fly shop in Canon City. By that, he means the nymphs of Baetis mayflies - delicate but rugged bugs of cloudy transitional days between late winter and early spring - are gearing up to perform their ephemeral mating ...