Rick Z wrote:

Hi Tyler

I have spent a lot of time in the Grand Mesa near Vega. Question for you. Did you hike in or ride ATVs? I know the Mesa has a ton of ATV trails. Love watching your videos!

Rick

90% of the time we hike in….To the really deep stuff though we take my buddies 1996 Jimmy and go rally. He got it lifted and put a big steel plate on the bottom. When we are going through, people on Razors and 4-wheelers look at us, point and laugh😂

bigcrappie wrote:

Can I come out and visit sometime? LOL

If you do man, there is SO many places for Campground camping and dispersed camping, you can’t go wrong. The Grand Mesa is HUGE and has over 300+ lakes/streams, pretty easy to get away from people lol.

eyeguy507 wrote:

great looking places Tyler! thanks for posting

If you ever get a chance to go to Colorado, the Grand Mesa is a great place to go!

deertracker wrote:

I don’t comment much but always enjoy the posts.
DT

No worries, I’m happy to hear you enjoy the posts. Sorry have been out of town!

Nitrodog wrote:

I have spent a far amount of time on the mountains in the fall hunting. I am looking forward to spending time out there in the summer fishing

I would highly recommend that…Good luck on your next hunt and/or fishing trip!

big_g wrote:

The pan full of fish looks so ‘ono !!!!

One of my favorite parts of the trip is eating the fish🤤🤤

FinickyFish wrote:

I know these posts don’t get a whole lot of traffic but I appreciate them. Looks beautiful over there.

I don’t mind the traffic or lack there of, just happy to share my fishing adventures with people😀 Glad to hear you enjoy them!

waldo9190 wrote:

Awesome pictures! Those drone pictures sure seem like they would be handy for scoping out rivers out there.

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>BigWerm wrote:</div>
Man I need to get back out west, beautiful pics as always!

This will be my first year since 2017 not heading west in the fall, but can’t wait to get back out there. The FW DEFINITELY would not appreciate me elk hunting two weeks before kiddo #3 is due to arrive.

LOL Fair enough! Well hopefully next fall you can come out and get one! Get some lines out too if you can🎣

trophy19 wrote:

Nice job…. beautiful area.

Thank you! It’s certainly an area I would recommend to any visitors. There is a really awesome river with big trout in it a short distance away. We will be uploading part two of the trip, fishing that shortly😀

BigWerm wrote:

Man I need to get back out west, beautiful pics as always!

The mountains are calling😀🎣

AK Guy wrote:

Very nice.

Thank you! It was a very fun evening of fishing. Love float tubing up here in the mountains…Sorry for the late reply, was up in the mountains all weekend fishing again.

brandmoney wrote:

Beautiful tiger

Thanks man! Happy to get that for the first one of 2022…Even if it wasn’t supposed to be in there haha

Watched on youtube, epic! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

BigWerm wrote:

That looks delicious! Love the pics as always Tyler, well done.

If you get a chance, you really should try and cook your trout this way…It’s tremendously good! Glad you enjoyed the pics man!

brandmoney wrote:

Those are some good shots. Keep it up

Appreciate that man! Pumped for the Spring bite

mann4ducks wrote:

yler
Sorry to here about Cheyenne. There has been a few accidents on 70 this year. We saw one a week ago last Sunday where a small car got the front ran over by a semi trailer just out of DeBeque canyon. Not sure what happen to that driver. Prayers for her recovery. And sorry for the loss of her dog. Dude we still need to hook up on a float this year maybe upper CO River if you are interested. Clad to see that you have picked up the fly rod. Throwing those minnow baits catch the fish We are heading for the Henry’s fork end of may to hopefully hit the salmon fly hatch this year.

I-70 can be so dangerous during winter. Just happy she is alive. Appreciate the support! We’ll have to link up for sure man! Send me a message so we can see if we can coordinate something.

deertracker wrote:

Amazing scenery!
DT

Love that Colorado fishing…So does he lol

Randy Wieland wrote:

Makes me really miss being on Granby

I still need to fish that lol

Jack Naylor wrote:

Nice job Tyler getting the family out on the ice.I have not
been on IDO for quite a while.
I enjoyed that. Size will come, but action IS
everything for Beginners.
Keep it Going.
Jack

Thanks for the kind words Jack! Hoping next time to have them land some fish but good to get my little niece out fishing finally😀 She has called me and wants to go again, so that’s good!

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Dave in Mpls wrote:

Nice job as always, Tyler!

Thank you Dave! 😀🎣

fishthumper wrote:

Great pictures and Video as always. All those fish are beautiful but the Brook Trout are most beautiful. I use to do a fair amount of stream trout fishing in our SE Minnesota area. Its been too many years since I’ve made the drive in the spring to fish them. I mat have to change that this next spring.

Appreciate that a lot! Glad to hear you enjoy the post and video. Brook Trout are one of my GF’s favorite looking fish, easy to get her out on the ice if I say we’re targeting that lol. Hope you do and hope you get into a bunch of them🎣

eyeguy507 wrote:

glad you are still at it Tyler. i did not watch the video but that scenery will just make me jealous! brookies are by far the most beautiful freshwater fish of all time.

No worries about the video haha! Just happy you enjoyed the post. The scenery is always one of the best parts of ice fishing out here in CO!

James Holst wrote:

Brookies are such cool looking fish!

I agree, super delicious too…Especially out of the high elevation lakes!

gimruis wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Tyler Thimsen wrote:</div>
This lake has an enormous stunted perch problem, they help with eating the little ones. <em class=”ido-tag-em”>Pike are delicious, used to eat them all the time when I lived in Minnesota

Well that’s interesting. Here in Minnesota there is a stunted pike problem!

My uncles have told me about a few lakes like that up there…Ya this lake in the video, there have been Tens of thousands of stunted perch removed over the years from CPW and fisherman, we’ve barely put a dent in it lol

gimruis wrote:

Why didn’t you keep the pike? They’re the one species that really does need to be harvested.

This lake has an enormous stunted perch problem, they help with eating the little ones. Pike are delicious, used to eat them all the time when I lived in Minnesota

Snake ii’s wrote:

Tyler,
Although I regularly read your posts and watch your videos, I have yet to thank you for posting your adventures, videos and breathtaking scenery. Thank you for posts as they offer the the escape from reality that I sorely need. I hope to someday experience the same and share them as well (but not as well as you do). Please keep them coming, I need the opportunity to live vicariously through them!
regards,
Cliff

Cliff,

Thank you for the kind words! I appreciate them greatly and I do my best to provide quality content. You’ll have to make it out here to the mountains sometime to get some lines out😀 Have a good weekend

sorry didn’t mean to double post and can’t figure out how to delete the other

Reef W wrote:

I often think it sounds like to much work to hook boat up to truck

Funny thing is, I sold my 14 foot john boat this past spring because I always thought it was too much work😂

ajw wrote:

I got altitude sickness just watching this

Hahaha hopefully you enjoyed!