Okay, what does it take to get a decent forcast??? For Green Mountain, it was supposed to be nice, sunny and winds of 10-20. I should back up a bit. I got a bit of a late start today, 7:30 and after spending over 3 hours on the parking lot that I affectionately call I-70, arrived at the lake. I was set up and was fishing by 11 am and for one hour, the weather was gorgeous. Sunny, a bit cool, but felt alot warmer than the temp, which was in the 20's at the time. Then it hit, the winds gusted from a constant in the mid 20's, up well into the 40's. Most of the fishermen out on the lake either headed closer to shore to attempt to find some cover or left all together.
As for the fishing, well, it was pretty decent. I was getting bites (subtle as they were) basically the whole time that I was there, from 11am-3pm. I ended up landing 1 rainbow and 10 macs, anywhere from 14 to 19". I was using the standard white tube jig, tipped with sucker meat in 62 fow about a hundred yards out from the Big Green Campground area.
Afterwards, it was over 3 hours in the parking lot (I-70) on the way back (I have never seen so much traffic on I-70 and there weren't even any accidents, just bottlenecks from the Eisenhower tunnel all the way to Idaho Springs, argh!).
Sorry for the whining, I guess that I should try to get out either waaaay ealier or perhaps, on a week day from time to time.
Well, that's it for now, take care all...........