river was pretty low, caught a few there with roostertail, nothing big, all bass - tried fly rod awhile & got nothing
went to a smaller pond lake & saw a fish about 2 ft long splashing in a shallow area - was too far to tell what kind
went to that spot and hooked something very big with the same roostertail, thought it was snagged until it started moving .. got very excited
but it spit the hook ... uggggggh ... was ticked, didnt even get to see it
had to get redemption for that one .. things slowed a bit then saw another larger fish makin waves around the shore - 1st cast & it hit - is the photo with net - was a little over 12" (was released)
-the roostertail was like skunk repellent - had 3 back to back skunks, now im fiending to catch some bigger fish there
-the huge fish i lost was hooked near a pile of sunk tree branches. At sunset fish were surfacing like crazy, there was a huge hatch of some kind of flying bug -. i saw lots of bigger fish near the shore hitting at the bugs.
-site fishing worked pretty good for these pits - I didnt see one mosquito either
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it's weird, ive never caught a nice bass in colorado until this year - Ive been here since 1990 - only been fishin hard here for 4 years - last 3 years somewhat religiously - mainly river trout
been hammering trout like crazy since learning how to fly fish the rivers - i gave up on the lakes early, until this year because a buddy got a boat, so now i always carry a fly & lake rod - no matter what
a month ago i was askin a friend about colorado bass - he's a fly guide in Val
he wanted to goto wyoming - im glad i found this spot & close to home
and landed some nice fish ... got my bass buzz back
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...
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!
Recently was up DEEP in the mountains fishing with my buddy...We came across a huge group of Colorado River Cutthroat Trout. We of course fished for them but we wanted to see if we could film them too. Luckily they were crowding around a small current provided by a little spring, flowing into...
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