BONEDALE FISHING REPORT #6

BONEDALE FISHING REPORT #6

THE COLORADO RIVER SELDOM GIVES UP HER DEAD

We have the same weather pattern as last year–big pow in the west slope backcountry and world-class trout fishing in the valley below. Sure, Baetis are popping, but Copi spotted a Golden last week on the Fork and EVERYTHING is moving on the Colorado. I spent the better part of the month throwing mayfly nymphs beneath a new piece of structure, until I saw some hooves. I’d been huckin’ bugs below a large animal carcass. This, of course, changed the strategy. She has since moved off her bed, but biomass is biomass. We spotted Crawdad traps with large Brown trout filets, which says something about the size of the Crawdaddies in our drainage. You can catch any damn thing you want right now, even a serious case of E. coli. I’ve got an old 9-foot Granger my Grandfather built in Denver that I want to christin [sic] this summer. It’s one hell of a streamer rod. Shook floated the upper Fork last week when the Klingons were in town and reported serious Golden Stone activity up-valley. “Tungsten” Harcourt is smacking big slabs down on the Coli, and the great Santini and I found a coyote carcass on the Fork, while exploring the lower reaches of Cattle Creek, which, thanks to a tanking land development, is still pristine. There’s more Elk and Geese on our local golf courses than golfers. Hell, you could pay the greens fees and simply fish the water features.

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Kea C. Hause

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A Blue River pellet head–it was so much fun watching Kea reef on a few of these big, juicy, dumb rainbows. Photo: Copi Vojta