With the fishing so good right now, I’m going to keep this
short. This spring or as we like to
call it, winter, went on forever this year.
It seems like only a short couple of weeks ago we were getting at least
three days a week of snow. Then summer
hit!
The last three weeks or so have been dry and warm. These warm temperatures peaked our snowmelt
about a week and a half ago and we have been steadily filling our reservoirs.
Dillon is very close to filling!
What was looking like a very scary dry year in February,
turned around with all the late winter snow.
Throughout the state there are many places that still have drought
conditions, but here in Summit County we are looking pretty darn good. Bring on the monsoons though!
As for the fishing, let me tell you it has been quite good.
With flows stabilizing we have been on the water fishing hard lately. I have
been float fishing the Colorado over the last couple weeks and I got to say I
have had some of the best days I can remember.
From using big flies, to fish being where they are supposed to be on
seemingly every cast. It doesn’t get
much better than that!
Another hot spot is the upper Arkansas. One of my guides
told me that the fishing was so good on dries, that he didn’t even bother
putting on a dropper. Yep that’s pretty
good!
Rumor has it the Blue below Silverthorne is fishing pretty
hot right now as well. From what I can
tell, it was stocked with lots of Brood Fish and they have not been picky. Just today a fella came in telling me about
a twenty-three inch trout he landed on a hopper at the “Factory Stores”. Let me tell you; that doesn’t happen very
often!
I could go on with more tales of great fishing on the Upper
Colorado, Williams Fork reservoir for Pike and more, but you need to come out
and see it for yourself. So what’s
stopping you? Get here!
