Hook, Line and Keep From Sinking

At the Teva Mountain Games in Colorado this past weekend, fly fishers vied for top honors in a one-fly tournament (six flies, but they all had to be identical) while navigating some serious runoff on the Eagle River. “‘The most extreme part was rafting down the river,’ said Mark Sassi of Edwards, who picked up the $1,000 first prize and a new Sage fly rod after landing five fish in four hours, the biggest measuring 15 inches.'” Scott Willoughby in the Denver Post.