Dutchy

Excellent report. Thanks. I enjoyed reading that

Me too, but what can you do

Sep 18th would be the only date that would work for me

There are alot of bait fish around in some parts. I lost a walleye last weekend right at the shore :wallbash: , right in the middle of London. The fish are there.................

I have two quantum rods, a 6ft bass rod and an 11ft steelhead rod. Never had any problems with either. Like someone else said, the fish doesn't know what is on the other end of the line.

Not sure. Twocoda said the first pic of a rainbow is actually a cutthroat. According to wikipedia Spiel, you are totally correct. That "brown" is a 100% cutthroat: We also caught a bunch that looked like this: Well I learned something today. I didn't catch any bows likely in Colorado

It was a biology conference FASEB. I run a research group at Western

Nice bucketmouth!!!

Fishing in Colorado should be on every trout fishermans go to places before they die. We stopped in numerous stream and they are just loaded with trout. Cutthrout - I showed a pic of the "brown" trout and someone told me they thought it was a cutthroat-brown hybrid. Still waiting for JJcanoe to tell me why lol. In certain areas the trout are spread. In some areas mainly browns (Rocky mountain national park), in others rainbows (Grizzly). Brookies tend to be in very small streams, such as the one going through Snowmass. Its very hard to fish though. People flyfish certain areas because you have no choice. Single barbless fly, fly gear only on many parts of the Raging Forks river. I cannot remember, but I think North of Aspen you can use anything, south of Aspen is fly fishing only. The Raging Forks and Colorado river are hit and miss according to the locals, basically you need to know where the fish hold. I have a map that a local highlighted a few good fishing spots on around Snowmass and Aspen, so if anyone is going there, send me a PM and I can scan it in. Telescopic rod was $16 and fits very nicely in my bag so I don't need cases to prevent it getting broken. That is the only reason. That rod will be going with me to many places from now on. Its a great little rod. The fish were hitting everything we threw at them initially, but quickly learned and stopped hitting panther martins. We changed up and used trout eggs and then they soon stopped hitting that. A couple were fishing near us and were using worms under a float. They were mainly getting small fish though, only had 3 keepers in the time me and Jim had probably 40 keepers. I know someone who fly fished Grizzly and slaughtered them. Even when we were there, fish were rising all over the place. Trust me Ryan, you want to go there.

So I posted a thread last week about going to Colorado and my plans to fish there. As I write this I am still in Denver, but I am bored so what the hell. I'll get to the fishing bit further down. I have been to the Canadian Rockies a couple of times, but the Colorado Rockies are just spectacular. If you get a chance you should grab it with both hands. Simply stunning scenery. I am not really easily impressed by these things so that gives you a clue as to how amazing the Colorado Rockies are. So I arrived last saturday and we headed to Estes Park and stayed there for one night. On the way to Snowmass, we decided to go through Rocky Mountain National Park. I thought the whole "its difficult to breathe" thing was a crock, boy was I wrong. :whistling: We start seeing streams that are just loaded with trout, mainly browns according to a guy we talked to. But the odd brookie as well. Then the not-so-shy critters start appearing - no hunting only fishing allowed in the national parks: We started heading up towards the summit, some more random pics: This is as high as the road gets, 12,500 feet above sea level: I was dying by this point, I could hardly go ten steps without struggling for breath. I swear these little buggers were laughing at me: There was a rodeo in Snowmass and these guys did not seem overly happy the morning after. Especially with some idiot taking pics of them. They were massive animals, don't quite get the rodeo phenomenon myself, but oh well...... OK, FISHING. So everything I had read before I went basically said you need a guide for the Raging Forks and the Colorado river. We saw people fishing everywhere. So I am thinking of ponying up the money just to say I had been fishing. But being Scottish it really goes against my nature. At dinner one night I was sitting with a prof from Guelph also attending the conference and mention fishing. His face lights up and I discover he is a fellow OFNer. So we figure there must be a cheaper way to do it. We end up in the one shop in Snowmass with any fishing gear. He gives us the required info and we purchase licences, telescopic fishing rods (so we can bring them back) and cardinal reels, a few panther martins and some aglias. All for alot less than $100 nevermind $350. The guy in the shop tells us about a reservoir called Grizzly up off Independence pass. The road in is apparently dodgy as hell, but he assures us the reservoir is like shooting fish in a barrel. Sounds like my kind of fishing. :thumbsup_anim: So off we go, it takes us 45 minutes to go 6 miles on this road and Hertz will one day wonder why the suspension on the SUV went after 20,000 kms We eventually get to Grizzly reservoir and this is what we see: So I am ridding my body of the morning coffee when I hear Jim shouting. First cast, a 6 inch brookie. So I get casting and after a few, bam, the first bow of the day: Followed by another... and another Then Jim gets this beauty in between all the bows: Then I go for a bit of a wander and this suicidal brookie hits my size 4 panther martin: All in all between us, we land over 50 trout in about 4 hrs and miss alot more. The trout were sitting in under this outlet: This reservoir is the head waters of the Raging Fork river. We lost one trout in total due to a deep hookset that was going to remove its gills. So we left that one for the mountain lions and bears. All other fish went back to fight another day. Had a blast and met a new fishing buddy. What more do you need? Oh and I did go to the conference which was also very good. Its not all fun and games. Thanks for reading Dutchy.

Nice Richard.

Its raining and the odd bit of thunder, nothing that spectacular really

I thought it was hilarious myself, although disturbing

Yeah, I managed to find one in Aspen, $260 for 4 hrs seems abit steep, but you only live once I'll see when I get there.

Thanks for the info Ryan, much appreciated. I hope I can post a good report too

Trout, Trout, Right in the middle, a few miles from Aspen I do flyfish. Thanks for the info on the book, I'll check it out. I know there are some good brook trout streams up in the rockies, just wondered if anyone had direct experience.

I heading to Colorado for a week, it is for work, but should be sufficient skiving time. Will be in Snowmass, just wondered if anyone has ever fished in that area. Cheers Dutchy

Nice job Richard. Was up at the same spot we met you on saturday and got a 3lb Smallie (18 inches). Pity you weren't there to tag it. Next time maybe.....

If it makes you feel better I am sitting in my office with broken A/C. Its not nice...............grounds for working at home me thinks.

Thats what I meant, its not good for diagnosis. If you have a certain condition, yes it can defo help get info on alternate strategies or treatments docs won't tell you about. My friend got a cancer treatment for his wife because he researched it. BUT don't try to diagnose yourself with google or webMD.

Never ever google symptoms other than for a joke. I have been feeling really lethargic and been sleeping for stupid amounts of time. So I googled, eliminated things based on symptoms and it left me either having diabetes, liver failure or a brain tumor lol. I saw my doctor, they are doing blood tests and she said it could be as simple as iron deficiency (she rhymed about 15 things off the top of her head that cause lethargy). Stating the obvious, but doctors train for a really long time and most know what they are talking about. If they thought you had a problem, you would know about it.

Thats exactly what I thought

Very nice. I have to do more top water and slop fishing this year for sure.

I'll have to try that. Thanks for the tip

Those things are awesome. Pretty much all I use now and I never fail to get at least one bass no matter where I am fishing. And this time a pike as well