EDITORS NOTE
As a Colorado native I grew up reading Charlie Meyers, Ed Marsh, Ed Dentry,
and Giles Alkire. Looking back I realize how spoiled we were to have such a
wonderful assortment of great writers covering fishing in Colorado. At least
once a week you could read about the outdoors in The Denver Post and
Rocky Mountain News. Then every two weeks a new issue of Colorado Fishing & Hunting News would hit the stands. We didn’t have ten big box tackle
shops spread throughout town, but we had multiple writers reaching out to
Colorado fisherman frequently.
The Rocky Mountain News and Colorado Fishing & Hunting News have been
gone for years. The Denver Post recently decided to quit covering outdoor
sports altogether. The same group of outdoors men and women that can
support multiple big box tackle shops spread throughout the state somehow don’t warrant local media coverage. Here at Born To Fish Media that
didn’t sit well and we aim to provide the local anglers with the best fishing
magazine this state has ever seen!
Before I talk about BTFM magazine I want to honor and pay our respects to
those that have reached out to the local fishing community in the past. The
guys I mentioned above were huge influences on so many anglers in in Colorado for Decades. The writer nearest and dearest to my heart has always
been Giles Alkire. He’s words jumped off the page at me and sent my young
imagination off to the woods envisioning myself going on the adventures
he’d describe in his columns. Collectively the writers above covered a little
bit of everything. They all knew their job wasn’t only to help anglers to catch
more and bigger fish… it was to tell stories, highlight local anglers doing
something phenomenal, and they certainly weren’t afraid to call out organizations that needed a kick in the rear when they weren’t doing their job well.
They knew to covering fishing in Colorado is a multifaceted ordeal and to be
a great ambassador for Colorado anglers they’d have to wear many hats.