Fished the poudre in town today for a couple hours. I have never fished in town before. It was neat to see that there are fish so close to home. There were some occasional fish feeding on the surface but most was sub surface. I found a nice group of trout and caught three. I missed alot of strikes. All fish took the black midge under a copper john. My digital ran out of batteries so I took this with my phone.
I know it's bad but I like pics.
I am excited to get out and expolore more of the river in town.
What are some of the spots on the Poudre in Fort Collins and the Big T in Loveland that produce? I tried the Poudre by Martinez Park for about an hour once and the bridge off of Shields once -- didn't catch anything either time but saw some fish.
Hatch that's awesome, so many people just fly by that section and never fish it, do you think those fish live in that part all year long? or do they come down from the canyon during the winter. I heve been fishing the canyon the last couple of weeks and it has not turned on yet. Hopefully this warm spell will get that freezing canyon a much needed boost. Love the posts about the Poudre, keep em comin.
Was the water flowing in that section or just still with a little drift?
I would asume they live there all year. There are a lot of diversions and I don't think rainbow and brown trout leap like salmon.
The water was flowing but I caught most in slack water at the foot of fast moving water.
I love fishing the canyon during the winter. No one else around. But it can be a real B***H sometimes. I think the fish get used to no one being around so they scare easy early in the year. Then as the angeling pressure heats up they calm down.
I fished in Boulder on sunday and caught some brownies at the water park where all the tubers tube in the summer I had 20 or so huge pools all to myself (fishin wise), it was nice I only caught em' on panther martins and they were all browns around 9inches.
course so did minnows, nightcrawler, leeches and anything else thrown at them today. caught one eight inch walleye wich was more than the four boats I talked to combine, blame it on the full moon , the heat, whatever only thing I know is I lost four dozen worth of minnows with two blade baits ...
The hot summer days and water levels going lower by the day and the crappies moving around after post spawn definitely made for a challenge finding them but persistence pays off!
I heard about the Arctic Grayling late last fall and I've been itching to target them...I went up with my buddy Remy and GF and had some GREAT SUCCESS!! Threw a wide variety of stuff with no action (for the graylings at least), we landed a big brown, some Brookies, some Colorado River Cutthroat...
Always wanted to figure the crappie and once I actually set out to do it I found hundreds! Limited out for the first time after trying for the whole month of June. Wasn't too hard once i honed in on the area where I located them. Fast forward 4 days later and today they were gone. Here is my...
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