The rainbows are getting ready to spawn and have some really beautiful colors right now. They are also nice and chunky, and are on the feed. I got several good rainbows today, including a very nice fish you can see on my fishing reports page.
It’s late April, which is springtime for most people, but here in the Colorado Rockies it can still look and feel like winter. In the photo below, Taylor Reservoir is still completely frozen over and there is a pretty good snowpack up on the Continental Divide. On the way back…
Early spring is a great time to fish small creeks. I really look forward to getting out on the small streams with a bamboo rod every year from April through June. I look for the bigger fish with buggers and streamers during this time. But once the hatches kick in,…
Spring is here and it really feels good after another long winter. The ice is coming off the rivers fast now as it warms up. There have been good midge hatches, and I caught my first fish of the season on dry flies this week. It’s been great to get…
I got out yesterday afternoon for a few hours and fished the East River, Taylor River, and Gunnison River. It still feels like winter fishing right now, and there is more winter weather coming. But I had a very good day on the river. Last week, I spooked out a…
Though it is still winter, spring is in the air. The days are warming up, some snow is melting, and the fishing has really turned on. Early season fishing, from now until run-off, can be really spectacular. It is a great time to get out on the river. The brutally…
I snowshoed into the Taylor Canyon yesterday to fish for a couple of hours in the afternoon. It snowed the night before and was snowing when I got there. I had to cut a trail to the river in snow that was at least waist high from the ground up.…
I decided to hike into the East River yesterday, mostly just to get some much needed exercise. I fished for about 3 hours and caught a few fish, mostly rainbows, which were pretty chunky. It was cold, and I don’t think the temperature got out of the teens. It was…
It was a tough day at the Taylor River C&R earlier this week. I fished for about 3 hours and landed one fish. I lost a really nice rainbow and two other browns, but that was it. It was windy and cold, and very slow fishing, even for February. But…
The snow finally arrived in December, and we actually had decent snowfall for the month. But it also got very cold. It has been below zero at night for several weeks, including a very chilly 32 below zero recently. The rivers froze and I watched the daytime high temperatures hover…
