Hey,
I was down there at Pueblo on Saturday, too. Got there at about 07:00 and marked a lot of fish in the North boat ramp area. Decided to troll Rapalas around the “Ship Rock”. The saddle at Ship Rock is now submerged (at/near the middle of the saddle) by about 5 to 6 feet of water. Tried casting shadraps up into the shallows and bringing it back … nothing. I tried slabbing without tipping and tipped with a minnow … Nothing.
Tried bottom bounding crawlers, minnows, shrimp … nothing. Tried banking the boat and fishing crawlers and minnows both on bobbers and on bottom in the cove behind “Ship Rock”. Had one little hit on crawler … just left teeth marks.
Went up towards the inlet to see if I could muster up a trout. Tried salmon eggs, power bait, crawlers, and fly & bubble … Nothing.
I saw several guys in what look liked Lunds and Trackers … zipping all over the place … it didn’t look like they were doing much better than I was. I saw a guy in a yellow and white fiberglass boat jigging around “Ship Rock” I wonder if it was one of you guys.
At about 15:30 I was down by the dam and the nets were not up on the North end … so I trolled it with a Rapala. I was about half way down the dam face when the “net setters” started dragging the nets out behind me. They were laying them at warp-speed and almost ran over my lure … so I pulled up and left. Then the wind came up out of the East-South East (maybe 25 mph).
Do any of you know what the reg’s are for fishing around the nets down at Pueblo? At Chatfield you have to stay at least 100 ft (33 yards). off the dam face. Is Pueblo the same?
Anyway, nice day despite the SKUNK.
I left for Denver at about 17:00 to try to beat the storm … it almost worked.
From the sounds of it, I should have gone to Brush Hollow and fished from shore.
Mac