First blog post

Posted on by Jim Cannon

I founded the Blue Quill Angler, a fly fishing retail shop, fly fishing school, internet store, and guide service in Evergreen CO in 1988. I had the privilege of fishing and introducing others to many of Colorado’s great trout streams including the South Platte, Blue, Arkansas, Roaring Fork, Frying Pan, Gunnison and Colorado Rivers, plus a host of smaller high mountain streams and lakes. Over the last 29 years I have had the opportunity to help hundreds of anglers develop skills for freshwater fly fishing, including casting, tying knots, reading trout streams, aquatic entomology, fly tying, and how to fish dry flies, nymphs and streamers. My only regret is that as the business grew I spent less time fishing and guiding and more time running the business.  In November 2016 my wife Martha and I sold our interest in the Blue Quill Angler and in May we moved to Bradenton Florida to be close to family and of course explore the multitudes of freshwater and saltwater fishing opportunities available in Florida. It is my hope that this blog will help me share with, and  keep in contact with my many friends,  and business relationships developed over the past 30 years. For new anglers I have not yet been introduces to, I hope this blog will be a source of  encouragement and information about the transformation that takes place in learning a completely different fishing environment.  Kayak fishing in a NuCanoe Frontier will be my means of exploration unless I am walking a beach looking for snook!