Colorado River Monsters (fishing)

Sweet...let me know your beta when you get back. I'd like to plan a multi-day float trip through the canyon.

 

Sooo. I'm a bit off. But here's a monster I caught out of the Columbia River in Oregon this summer!

 

You might be the first person to ever catch a sturgeon on a Fly Rod

Nice Fish but this is a Colorado- fishing thread so Oregon doesn't count

 

I didn't see an Oregon thread or maybe I would have posted there lol.

But thanks man. Yeah, this was actually the smallest one I caught that day. Crazy

 

How do you actually fish for them, Trolling? I heard they live deep, do you have to "muscle them up" surface like sport (Ocean) fishing?

 

Yeah we trolled with bait... 16 to 18-inch fish was our bait. And yes you have to muscle them to the surface. Some of our fish took good 20-30 minutes to reel in. Especially when they run and are 380ft out

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mo...for-more-than-its-size/ar-BB1a485t?li=BBnbfcL

One day I am going to hit Ice off on a lake and catch one of these bad boys on my Fly Rod.

 

lol, a 20lb trout on his first cast on his first boat. I hope the dude went and bought a lottery ticket afterward.

 

https://youtu.be/lGYj-1b8kDE

Interesting stuff to me

 

Anyone been fishing lately??

Where you guys fishing?
Any good recommendations for winter fishing?
Anyone Ice Fish?

Ive been working and hiking 14ers so have fished much in the last 3 weeks but i hear Deckers is ~60cfs, 11mi canyon is still low, and dreamstream is still low...

 

Don't Forget the Forest Serviced just banned entry to a huge swath of Front Range area.

 

All the usual tailwater suspects for winter fishing. For me, it's mostly Cheeseman, the Blue, and the Willy's from December through February, then swing toward the Ark in March. I use this time of year to catch the last few productive days on the smaller rivers--clear creek, waterton, etc. They'll be low and frozen before you know it.

I've been locked in on house projects the last 6 weeks...only got one day of fishing in on the Ark. It's driving me crazy. Next weekend we're going to camp and fish somewhere within three hours.

EDIT: I usually also snag a few days at the dream during the winter, but it's a different kind of cold up there. Productive fishing only lasts a few hours.

 

Who remembers their first fish?

Here’s mine, a little brown caught a few months ago in a creek just outside Denver. Can’t remember the fly I used, I remember it was a nymph.

Brand new to fly fishing, and have been addicted since my first catch!

 

Congrats! May there be many more.

 

Sure do, since it was this year.

Congrats! It's addicting.

 

My first fish I was probably 4-5 years old .. I honestly don't remember. I've caught hundreds n hundreds.

 

I don’t remember catching my first trout. It was surely a rainbow stocker I snagged with a rooster tail on the banks of the Tellico River in eastern Tennessee. An improbable stroke of luck--at best I reckon my 1/8oz spinner finally dodged enough tree branches and river weeds to entice a fish.

 

I only catch all the butters and cutties

 

Chucking streamers on Thanksgiving.