What??

The funny thing is yesterday at work one of the guys was looking at the paper and saw the section with the fishing report and pointed it out to me. I said, "let me guess walleye are biting on bottom bouncers in 15-20 feet of water?" He said "yeah, how did you know?"

Its easy being psychic when nothing has changed for the last 3 weeks.

The actual report for Chatfield is.

Slow, for all species.
Some smallmouth being taking trolling and casting minnow imitations in 10 feet of water or less.
Walleye deep and very few being caught on anything, including leeches.
Some bluegill being taken in 20-26 feet of water using a piece of worm or crawler on a size 10 bleeding hook just off the bottom. best spots are where the depth rapidly changes.

These are the facts from a regular.

Dan

work2fish said:

Actually, I'd be interested in what they use to write these reports if anyone knows.  As I mentioned in a previous post, it can't be an easy job as many things must slip through the cracks or not be reported...

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I'd have to agree with that. There has been a few times where park rangers would actually come around asking us how we did at the eastern plains reservoirs to gather info for a report. One of the park rangers at John Martin was actually excited to see us catch a nice load of crappies in like 2003. He said it was very nice of us to actually tell him how we did. He even asked if we would mind telling him what we caught them crappies on. That tells me, they don't too often get the chance to get full or detailed reports from anglers that come and go through those gates.

Just like Jackson earlier this year, the guy actually had a look at our Rat-L-Trap colors because he said it's tough to just get fish counts for a report. They're usually very polite when they ask for details though. It usually starts off with, "Would ya mind if I ask what kind of lure......?"

I usually don't mind telling if it's just something real simple that any joe schmoe angler can do. If it's one of those "dance around the campfire while waiving rods to the fish gods" secrets, then I might not tell.  

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Well.... As long as it's not Jeff Butler who's not doing his job. He was my hero when I was like 13 or 14. I always wanted his job. Have y'all ever called the hotline... Ooh, I still have the numbers memorized.. 303-291-7538 for the SE region and 303-291-7536 for NE region.. Anyhow, I used to always call that line to listen to the reports and think to myself, "Man, he gets paid bank just for that? I'm going to take that job when I grow up!"


I still remember how he records the reports, "Thiiiiiiiiiiiis is Jeff Butler with the Division of Wildlife fishing report for the Southeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeast reeeeegionnnnnnnn for the weakend of May 24th through the 25th " then a split second pause, " Antero reservoir, water levels are high, yada yada yada yada..." and he goes on spittin two hundred seventy somethin' words per minute without stopping for a breath. He still does it too. Watch out Jeff, I'm comin to get your job! Oh yeah, but I can't leave my current job yet. I'm a moderator for Colorado Fisherman 

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