How and where the rich fish

Scott Asbury’s home at Elk Creek Ranch is currently listed for $5.75 million. PHOTO- RUSSEL SCHNITZER:LIVE WATER PROP

In their quest for the best fishing, avid anglers are spending $200,000 to $750,000 to create and stock personal streams with computer-controlled conditions

By Amy Gamerman | The Wall Street Journal

Some avid anglers travel thousands of miles to fly-fish for trout in the rivers and streams of the Rocky Mountains. Don Felsinger can cast a line from his patio. Over 2 acres of man-made ponds and streams stocked with native cutthroat trout surround the 8,000-square-foot-home that Mr. Felsinger and his wife, Jenny, built on 15 acres in Jackson Hole, Wyo., in 2015.

“When I only have an hour or two, I will just walk off on my porch and fish my own water,” said Mr. Felsinger, 69, the retired chairman and CEO of Sempra Energy who spent about $16 million to create his home and trout redoubt at 3 Creek Ranch—a gated community with a Rees Jones-designed golf course, 3 miles of private trout streams, and a full-time fishing coordinator. “My passions in life are playing golf and fly fishing, and I get to do both.”

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