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| 492.1 | Thanks!, er, I think? | MARX::KANE | A bad day fishin, beats the best day working | Tue Apr 02 1996 12:41 | 4 |
| Nice report. Not sure if I'm glad for the memories/visions your note
provides, or jealous that you got to go & I'm stuck at my desk!
/ed
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| 492.2 | more platte river fish stories! | BSS::DSMITH | RATDOGS DON'T BITE | Thu Apr 11 1996 09:33 | 18 |
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Another Platte River report!!
Went to the South Platte this weekend(north or were .0 went), got ther
as the sun was just coming up, it was cold morning but we were fishing
so what the h&*l...
Caught 3 brown's early and then started working down stream to see
what I could pick up..
Hooked a 20 inch Rainbow and thought I had the bottom of the river,
got it up close by the bank and dam near fell in when I saw this fish,
talk about colors, this fish was FAT. Got it landed took a good look at
it( no camera). I put all 4 the fish back in the river so they can be
caught another day..
Fishing is good so far..
Dave
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| 492.3 | New bait caster ready to go! | BSS::JACKSON | Ice off has started! | Sat Apr 13 1996 01:12 | 12 |
| Sounds great!
We are going to Rampart this weekend since its "supposedly" iced
out.
Now that we can keep 2 Mack's under 20", it should be fun.
Blue Mesa trip is in mid-may. About had ~30" brown in the boat last
year. It spit the hook while netting and I cried as it slooooowly swam
away;-(
Tim
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| 492.4 | | SPECXN::BARNES | | Thu Apr 18 1996 11:40 | 6 |
| Willow Creek Regional Park, intersections of highways 85 and 87 in
Security/Widefield, has been produceing some good size holdover bows
this spring, as well as abunch of 10-12" stockers. I even caught a
small bluegill there last nite...first in years.
deadhead
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| 492.5 | I got da fever! | BSS::JACKSON | Didn't know a shark could choke | Tue Apr 23 1996 19:55 | 10 |
| Good luck on your Blue Mesa trip Deadhead. That lunker brown is
mine;-)
This is the time of year to catch the big ones before they go to deep.
Unfortunately I can't go until May 16th, but I have had luck for big
browns in a "certain" spot the last 2 years.
I'm going to Spinney or Elevenmile on friday.
Tim
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| 492.6 | Browns on Blue Mesa\ | SPECXN::BARNES | | Mon Apr 29 1996 17:38 | 37 |
| caught some big browns in Blue Mesa this past weekend..
Hit the water bright and early Friday morning, out in the channel by
Elk Creek marina, for fish that showed up on my friends depth finder at
100 ft.! Thinking they were salmon we tryed to key in on them. We
picked up one splake in a couple of hours...we were doing something
wrong. I noticed in the finder that when we turned and crossed over a
shallow point to return to the channel, that the fish were stacked up
on this point..strange. Back at camp i started throwing a rappala from
the shore just to kill time. The wind had come up and getting back on
the water was out. Here's where i nailed my first and biggest brown, 20
inches, 2.5 lbs. seconds later i had a 19 incher, 2.5 lbs. As the wind
picked up and crashed against the shore, the fishing got better. These
big browns were keying in on the baby crawfish and baby kokonee salmon
being washed up on shore. A few more browns and a 16 inch FAT bow and the
fishing was over for the day.
Next morning we blew off the salmon and started keying in on points and
rocky shores...we nailed the browns at several places and esp. on the
point we had observed while trolling the channel,
until we lost all our rappalas in the rocks. One that my dad
hooked had his rappala and a 3 inch koke in his mouth! When I banged his
head before gutting, he spit another koke out! One brown had 20 little
crawfish in his gut! Then I cleaned fish while my dad and a friend ran
into town for 60$ more of rappalas.Unfortunately, a texas dust storm
moved in and we were forced to set inside the campers and drink beer until
it was all gone, then we went into town for more. My friends that met us
up there did manage to find a few small kokes and bows.
Sunday morning was cold! I got skunked, dad got one 18" brown that
weighted almost 2.5 lbs, and the Skipper got a couple of 16 inchers.
We loaded up and headed for home, over Monarch pass in a blizzard...we
almost didn't make it over the pass, it was close.
April on Blue Mesa is brown season. The weather can screw you up, but
when it's good...IT'S GOOD!
deadhead
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| 492.7 | | BSS::JACKSON | Set the drag just right! | Tue Apr 30 1996 01:13 | 8 |
| Sounds like ya had fun there deadhead! I have caught alot of Salmon
and bows in that channel, but no browns.
It sounds like your doing alot of casting. I'm a lazy fisherman
(thats why we go right?) so trolling takes about 75% of the time, while
the other 25% is spent casting and jiggin'.
Tim
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| 492.8 | | SPECXN::BARNES | | Tue Apr 30 1996 09:25 | 17 |
| re:It sounds like your doing alot of casting..
and a lot of walking...I like to cover ground when I fish. 3-5 mile
slow hikes along the S. Platte up around Alma are not uncommon with me.
I see all kinds of other wildlife as well as signs and tracks that I
like to figger out. Once I came across a dead mother mallard on her nest
with a little tear in her neck. All 6 eggs had the tops pecked out and
sucked dry. A closer look told me a weasel or emine wanted the eggs and
when mom tryed to defend the nest, the weasel took her out.
We walk down into (and *UP* back out of) Nickles every week at
least once a week. ANd we like the wild river between Lake George and
Cheeseman, where you haveta walk and fish the pools.
deadhead
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| 492.9 | | BSS::JACKSON | Set the drag just right! | Tue Apr 30 1996 18:10 | 12 |
| I used to walk the Taryall Creek before is meets the S. platte. I've
had some luck in there and not to many people go in there, and of
course the sites are excellent.
I guess the gate to Rampart finally opened last Friday, and someone I
know went up there over the weekend and said the water level is low, so
prime fishing should be the case.
Was Blue Mesa low? It was down ~ 50-60' last May in anticipation of
the big runoff since the snow pack was 140-200%.
Tim
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| 492.10 | | SPECXN::BARNES | | Wed May 01 1996 09:50 | 14 |
| RE: Taryall Creek...one of the next places i check out before runn-off,
that and Beaver Creek down by Penrose
RE:Rampart...yep, guy who runs the cafe here in CX03, Jim, fished it
last Friday and did well including a Laker...we'll be hitting Nickles,
below Rampart this Friday
RE: water level @ Blue Mesa...very low, lower than last May I'd say.
From the looks of the mts., runn-off will be just as bad as last year
if not worse. Watch out for the huge logs and dead cows! But the salmon
fishing should be excellent in the Elk Creek Channel and in Iola Basin.
Good Luck!
deadhead
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| 492.11 | | SPECXN::BARNES | | Tue May 07 1996 09:27 | 6 |
| fishing slow at Nickles, but flies and bubble will get some action.
Orange ashers and bloody butchers...bait fishermen across the lake
were doin good with, I assume, that psycadelic power bait.
deadhead
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| 492.12 | 10 days and countin' | BSS::JACKSON | Set the drag just right! | Tue May 07 1996 19:36 | 14 |
| I was at Rampart on Saturday with my son and a friend and we got 2 on
the boat in the 1st 1/2 hour, then it took about 3 stinkin hours until
the next one was caught, I'm sure do to the 30mph gusts.
At least my 1st one was a Mackinaw which came in at 17" and swam
alongside the boat about 6hrs until we left, and yes I kept it since
they changed the regualtions this year. My son caught a fat 16"
bow going into the 1st cove on the south side.
Only 4 fish total, but hey, its better than being here and we had
great beer!
Tim
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| 492.13 | | SPECXN::BARNES | | Wed May 08 1996 10:12 | 3 |
| Tim, what were you trolling?
deadhead
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| 492.14 | 8 days and counting! | BSS::JACKSON | Set the drag just right! | Wed May 08 1996 21:57 | 16 |
| Deadhead,
I used pop-em gear with a worm on a 12" liter. Usually it kills
'em more, but like I said, it twas windy.
Last September, the same 3 of us got over 35 on da boat! Many didn't
hook well so they got off when realing them in, then of course lots of
hits. We actually ran out of worms (took 3 dozen+), so I used some
grasshoppers that I took since I like to use them and a bobber when the
water is calm, and sure enough, caught a Mack trolling with a hopper.
We've never had that productive of a day, especially at Rampart. My
son actually got tired of realing them in, he's only 8, but still I was
floored when he told me to do it for him...
Tim
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| 492.15 | | MFGFIN::JACKSON | Set the drag just right! | Wed May 15 1996 19:29 | 5 |
| Tommorrow is the Blue Mesa trip. I'm fired up!
Here's to good weather!
Tim
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| 492.16 | | BSS::DSMITH | RATDOGS DON'T BITE | Thu May 16 1996 09:05 | 4 |
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Good luck there Tim....
Dave
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| 492.17 | | MFGFIN::JACKSON | Set the drag just right! | Mon May 20 1996 19:32 | 20 |
| Back from Blue Mesa. It was windy down there all 4 days, so the
fishing was sloooow do to the big waves and murky conditions from the
wind and runoff.
Our total "on the boat" was 22 (13 for me). Overall it was a great trip
(not many fishing trips aren't) even if we didn't catch as many and as big
of fish as normal.
Our most productive area was down by the dam and other spots in the
Sapiniro basin. Ceballo basin was dead. Didn't fish Iola basin. We
caught more browns and less Kokanee salmon than normal. I only caught
1 laker (15"). We mainly trolled and cast. No jigging this year.
The folks at the lake fork marina had alot of pictures of people
catching 22"-36" rainbow and brown trout, and only 1 big laker,
so far. I got to see 1 guy lugging out a 26" rainbow.
Tim
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| 492.18 | | SPECXN::BARNES | | Mon Jun 03 1996 09:31 | 9 |
| you did better than most, Tim. The guy we usually go with went the same
weekend as you, tryed concentrating on Salmon, and only came back
with 5-6 salmon and as many small rainbows, no browns.
were the browns you caught still up close to the shore??
deadhead
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| 492.19 | | THEMAX::JACKSON | Set the drag just right! | Mon Jun 03 1996 20:24 | 13 |
| Yes most of the browns were still up close to shore. We caught a
couple in the area between the North fork marina and the Soap creek
arm.
We didn't get to spend much time in the middle as we would have liked
do to the big waves rocking the boat to where we got tired of the
sideways rocking.
The salmon were slow for us and all reports we heard from other
fishermen. I've noticed that we don't catch as many salmon in the
spring vs summer..
Tim
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| 492.20 | | SPECXN::BARNES | | Thu Jun 27 1996 10:45 | 7 |
| fly time at Nichols Res below Rampart Range Res. now. Adams, hares ear
nymphs, mayflies, orange ashers and bloody butchers. The cutts hit in
the early evening and right before dark the larger rainbows seem to
turn on out deeper. fun stuff on an ultra lite and water bubble..
haven't taken the fly rod proper down there yet
deadhead
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| 492.21 | | SPECXN::BARNES | | Mon Jul 01 1996 11:02 | 6 |
| Runn-off is over in the high-country and the little brookies and
browns are hitting. Caught a few on worms and several on fly-n-bubble,
flys being coachmen and muddlers, up around Hoosier PAss this last
weekend. Not huge, 8-10", but fat and tasty.
deadhead
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| 492.22 | Mousquito Pass Fishing | SPECXN::BARNES | | Mon Jul 08 1996 17:34 | 8 |
| cuttthroat fishing at 13,000 ft this past weekend. From 8:30pm to 10pm
they were hitting tiny flies (very picky fish at 13,000 ft) I picked up
one and had two small hits. Fishin buddy picked up 2 small ones and
missed two nice ones.
unfortunately we spent from 10:30pm to midnight getting the truck
unstuck. Sure is easyier fishin for the brookies!
deadhead
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| 492.23 | Caught sunburn too | THEMAX::JACKSON | Set the drag just right! | Mon Jul 08 1996 19:23 | 6 |
| Went to Rampart yesterday and we hit limit as we were leaving. Its
nice being able to keep 2 lakers under 20". Caught 1 decent 16"
rainbow while the rest of the bows were stockers. Caught 1 brown at
15", but not alot of meat...
Tim
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| 492.24 | question about rampart lakers | SPECXN::BARNES | | Tue Jul 09 1996 10:08 | 17 |
| Tim..
what's yer opinion of the lakers out of Rampart, taste-wise?
2 years ago we took several smaller lakers from Blue Mesa and not a one
tasted worth a sh*t. I vowed to not keep any this year, but that didn't
matter cause we didn't catch any! %^)
On that same note, i throw back browns and bows
from the upper end of the South Platte and keep mostly brookies, again
because of the taste. The browns and bows are "mushy".
But the large browns we took from BM this year
were *VERY* tasty and the small bows from there were some of the *BEST*
I've ever had.
I think altitude, water and food all play some part in the taste.
deadhead
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| 492.25 | stouter? | MFGFIN::JACKSON | Set the drag just right! | Tue Jul 09 1996 23:34 | 27 |
| Deadhead,
The rampart lakers taste about the same as blue mesa lakers, with a
little more "fishy" taste. I'm assuming (uh oh) that the lakers taste
more fishy than bows, brookies etc. since they are such an aggressive
fish.
I actually prefer walleye, salmon and perch.
The laker and bows that I kept from sunday were "handouts". I know
alot of people that aren't into the catch part of fishing, just the
eating part.
It works out well for both parties involved since I give them food and
they usually return the "favor" in some other manner, and all this
without us or them asking, just offering. All I ever want to know
from them is if they enjoyed the fish or if there was something wrong
with them.
The buddy I was with was cleaning one of his lakers, and he found a
digesting gitzit and another hook with 1/2 digested salmon eggs on it.
That boy had been hungery and gotton away with 2 meals, until the old
faithful rainbow pop-gear and worm got 'em.
Tim
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| 492.26 | | SPECXN::BARNES | | Wed Jul 10 1996 16:02 | 8 |
| I actually prefer eastern Colorado catfish above all else!! but
brookies are prob. 2nd., crappie 3rd
last year I cooked Blue Mesa salmon, browns and a laker all at the
same time on the grill. We ate the salmon and browns and gave the laker
to the cats after tasting it..%^)
deadhead
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| 492.27 | | SPECXN::BARNES | | Fri Aug 09 1996 11:31 | 7 |
| the bows and cutts are starting up again at Nickles REs below Rampart,
orange ashers, bloody butchers and adams a foot or two behind a small
bubble on an ultralite....some 14-15" bows coming out that are a blast
on said ultra lite...PLEASE, if you go, takea garbage bag and pick up
some of the trash the %$&*(#@ boneheads have left behind.
deadhead
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| 492.28 | | MFGFIN::JACKSON | Profit millions,lose job | Sat Aug 10 1996 01:14 | 11 |
| They also just stocked Nichols and Rampart this week. I'm there on
sunday.
Went to Taylor res. last weekend, and the fishing was good between
storms.
The thing I didn't like was the only ramp was open from 8am-6pm.
What a crock! The early morning and late evening hours are the best
time to catch 'em.
Tim
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| 492.29 | | SPECXN::BARNES | | Mon Aug 12 1996 12:01 | 10 |
| re;
They also just stocked Nichols and Rampart this week. I'm there
on sunday.
how was it? I hope the stockers they put in are of decent size...I'd hate
to go from 14-15"ers to 6"ers! %^) even though I usually put back more
than I take from Nichols.
deadhead_couple of nice breakfast-brookies this weekend at 10,000 feet
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| 492.30 | It was HOT! | MFGFIN::JACKSON | Profit millions,lose job | Mon Aug 12 1996 23:47 | 34 |
| re-1
I went up Saturday night and caught 3 from the shore. There were
alot of fingerlings popping.
On sunday, we both caught more than our limit from the boat using the
usual pop-gear and a worm, which we actually ran out of worms! We only
took 5 home do to the size. We didn't keep anything under 13". We both
noticed that with the amount that we caught, alot were smaller than
normal. No lakers or browns this trip.
I talked to someone that went to Nichols last week and he and his
step son hit there limit down there using anything from power bait
to a bubble and a fly.
We talked to the guy running the shack by the ramp, and they are
going to add more dock, and a seperate dock for the rental boats (big
deal). He also stated they will leave the dock in until mid october!
Last year they pulled it out the day after labor day, but still charged
to get in! That torqued some people off. This year they didn't put
the dock in until just before memorial day and were charging. Someone
got po'd and shoved the shack at the 1st campground enterence down into
the trees. The folks that run it stated they can charge, but their
contract states that they only have to have the ramp in from memorial
to labor day.
They even have some lures, worms and other needs at the shack by the
ramp, so at least they are taking some of that money and making it
nicer and convenient. We had to actually buy another dozen crawlers.
I usually take ~ 3 dozen after pulling them outta the back yard.
Tim
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| 492.31 | Its cooling down | MFGFIN::JACKSON | The time is near | Wed Sep 11 1996 01:47 | 11 |
| Deadhead,
Someone I know went to Nichols this past weekend and caught over 40
fish, some of decent size. He released the small ones and kept the
bigger ones.
I'm going to Rampart on friday the 13th! I'm not superstitous.
Besides, a bad day at fishin' is better than a good day at work. I
don't mind getting paid to drink beer and drown worms!
Tim
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