Name: Mike Williams
Date Submitted: 10/4/2008
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Comments on B-22 Gunnison River
LaMar Jost and I fished this lease for about 6 hours on Saturday. It was a fun day, but the fishing wasn't gangbusters like it had been the week before. I caught 6 (5 browns, 1 rainbow) and LaMar caught 7 (4 browns, 3 rainbows). We were surprised we did not hook more rainbows here. We had most hookups on black beauties and blood midges. Also caught a few on standard attractors--black and red CJs and FBBHPTs. Did some searching for Kokanee on bright green and red streamers, but didn't find any. Nothing on buggers either. The day was cloudy and warm, about 60 degrees. Nothing but midges coming off the water, and no risers all day. Tried some BWOs in the afternoon, but nothing going.
Name: Mike Williams
Date Submitted: 10/3/2008
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Comments on B-26 East River
LaMar Jost and I fished the lease for about 3 hours in the late afternoon and evening. Nothing much happening. Only one fish brought to the net. I covered a lot of water with streamers, but didn't cause any fish to move that I could see. LaMar caught one rainbow on a black beauty and hooked up with a couple more he didn't land. Weather was cloudy and warm, about 60 degrees. Saw a few BWOs coming off and one yellow stone, but only one riser spotted.
Name: Richard Beardsley
Date Submitted: 10/2/2008
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Comments on C-61 N. Fork, N. Platte
even though low water caught 20 plus or minus in the 16 to 20 inch range, mostly rainbows, some smaller browns and one brook trout! An exquisite autumn day. Red ant and wollybugger.
Name: Chris Duerksen
Date Submitted: 10/1/2008
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Comments on C-67 White River
This report is actually for C-69, a new property upstream of C-67. I fished C-69 midweek on a perfect early fall day--light NW wind, mostly sunny, 78 degrees. The water was slightly off-color green, but that may be normal. The flow was up slightly due to rains earlier in the week--running about 275 CFS. I was surprised to find that the wading was challenging at that level--but the current in this stretch is strong in places and the rocks are VERY slippery with a mossy coating in many places. The fishing was great--a Rocky Mountain grand slam of rainbows, browns, cuts, and ....whitefish. I started at the Donkey Pool at the downstream end of the property, which is deep,long,and fast. Fished a royal trude (#14) with a red copper john dropper. It took a bit for the trout to warm up, but when they did, the action was steady. Look for quiet spots up against the bank out of the current and small holes in moderate currents below rapids/riffles. Biggest fish was a 20 inch rainbow on a #6 conehead black wooley bugger. 4 other rainbows went around 18 inches (2 on the red CJ (#16), 2 on the trude) and lost one rainbow that was 20 inches++ just above Donkey Pool on the CJ. Total for the day was around 40 with 20+ rainbows, 10 fat, fighting whitefish, and the rest a mixed-bag of browns/cutts/cutbows. Late morning and afternoon I started picking up some nice rainbows and cutbows on the big trude, which made for a fun day. Ended up with some fat rainbows at the top of the property in and around the drainage channel. Used a 4 and a 5 weight rod and 4X and 5X leaders. Fish were not leader shy. Saw some nice trout finning about in the pond, but no time to fish it. There is a small boat w/paddles available. Early and late on the pond would probably be best as the water is very shallow and clear, and the trout a bit skittish. This property is definitely worth the trip--strong, healthy fish in a beautiful valley. Just too much good water up here to fish in a weekend (don't overlook Coal Creek.)
Name: Mike Kramer
Date Submitted: 9/30/2008
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Comments on A-17 Clear Creek
Beautiful day, nice stretch of water, was my first time on this property. Saw tons of fish but only caught one 5" and one 8" brown. Had quite a few that i didn't land. The fish did not appear to be hungry at all. Lot of leaves falling on the water, not sure if that had them hugging the bottom or what! Landed the two on bead head dropper, had a few nice takes on the hopper but they were not aggressive strikes by any stretch of the imagination. My partner got skunked, but had a few rise to her flies. Fish won today, but i'll be back. One note, the upstream boundry fence did not have the RMAC sign on it, confused us for a bit, the sign was on the bank about 10 yards upstream of the fence. When we found that we turned around immediatly. The downstream section has the best holding water, lots of nice deep pools. Water was gin clear and low. Warm day, in the 80's.