It's A Kind Of Magic

Editor Mark Hedges is utterly charmed by a days fishing in Colorado, a town worthy of John Wayne and a new way of catching trout

I THINK we’ll start with a Chubby Chernobyl fished with a Fuzzy Wuzzy as team.’ these are flies that would cause heart attacks on Hampshire's River test, but everything is splendidly different on the Taylor River in Colorado, USA—and all the better for it.

My guide, Moose Hofer, so named because his mother shot a huge moose while heavily pregnant, carries a splendid beard and a wealth of knowledge about fishing and the great outdoors. the river bustles along a steep valley and ravens scream at us from the trees hanging perilously on the cliffs. hummingbirds dart hither and thither. there’s an ancient magic to the place.