While we were out of town, according to the fishing club, some fishermen from the club came here to fish but there was already a couple of other fishermen here who told them they were staying in the rental cabin and I told them they could fish the river. So the club guys left and complained to the fishing club about it and got their money back plus a free day fishing.



The problem is that there wasn't anyone staying at the cabins while we were gone, so this was a lie and we don't know who these poaching fishermen could have been. I figure it was someone who had been here before in order to have some idea of how things work around here.

Today I was talking to one of the fishing guides about it and he immediately named another guide whom he has grown to expect that kind of behavior from, so at least I have the make of the guy's truck to keep an eye out for. But without more clues, we'll probably never know for sure who it was.

We also talked about what I refer to as Greedy Yuppie Fishing. Last year a certain professional basketball player and his partner offered me $15,000 to dump my current fishing club and sign with theirs. They were going to stock the river to make easier fishing for their clients, and charge exorbitant membership fees and dues - $60,000 to join, $15,000 a year to belong, plus daily rod fees in the hundreds of dollars.

He told me that they had bragged that they were going to have a property up the Big Thompson even before I had signed up with them. So typical of the way they acted - pushy and arrogant.

I wasn't interested in signing up with them because I didn't want the river stocked (it might even be illegal here), and I thought the kind of customers who came would be more demanding and too elitist.

The way today's guide referred to it, my current fishing club is much more reasonable and accessible to the 'little guy.' It's all relative.