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Name: BH Date Submitted: 9/20/2012
Email: helmsb@msn.com
Date's Fished: Sept. 17, 2012

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Water conditions low... weather nearly ideal, temps in the high 50s, partly cloudy with an occasional rain/slush storm. 2 anglers landed 20 + fish ranging from "dinks" up to 20 inches. Mostly rainbows but we also caught a couple of small brown trout and 2 white fish. Effective flies were Orange Stimulator & flying ant on top, Purple Prince Nymph and Hare's Ear on the dropper. Several of the larger rainbows were landed on a Slumpbuster streamer. Highlight of the day was a simultaneous hook-up in the west pond near the middle parking area... both rainbows were 19 inchers. Great day on the Crystal River!



Name: Doc Date Submitted: 9/14/2012
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Date's Fished: Sept. 12, 2012

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A Torrential rain storm and mudslides the previous night left the river downstream of Redstone muddy and unfishable. Personnel at the Redstone Inn thought the club property may be in the same condition and recommended I check it before I started fishing. I started walking down to the river from the downstream parking lot and startled a black bear which was under a large pine tree. He took off upstream and into the woods. The river was chalky looking but not muddy. I fished from 8:30 to 5:30 and caught six rainbows in the 12 to 18 inch range and two 8 inch browns. I used BH Prince , BH Pheasant tail , egg patterns and Red San Juan worm patterns. This is a very nice property. I look forward to coming back next year.



Name: Brad Simpkins Date Submitted: 9/28/2010
Email: blsimpkins
Date's Fished: September 28, 2010

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Got on the river at 9 AM. Frost on the ground and vehicles. Water is low and clear. Very wary fish. Had to sneak up. Found some good riffles and some drop off pools. Landed a dozen or so fish, all but one before noon. Only one in the afternoon. High sun and clear day. All but one fish were rainbows, 8-12 inch. One broke off, guessed it at 15 inches. Caught one white fish. Used all small double nymph rig with BHPT 18, zebra midge with tungsten bead 20 or 22 and BH prince 18. This is both of our first trip here. Nice water, good stretch of stream. Will definitely return.



Name: Ken Blackburn Date Submitted: 9/1/2009
Email: friscoken@yahoo.com
Date's Fished: August 30, 2009

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This was the first time I have fished this property. I checked in at the Redstone Inn at 9:50. There were 2 other fisherman who had already checked in. I drove to the upper parking lot and started fishing around 10:10. I walked down river several hundred yards before I got into the water. I tied on a Elk Hair Caddis and a BH pheasant tail as my dropper. I immediately caught fish on both flies. I was able to site fish to numerous fish in the clear water. The fish were lined up in several runs and they would take my dry or the dropper. I landed 12+ fish before lunch. The largest was an 18” Rainbow on the Elk Hair Caddis. I had lunch from 12:00 – 1:15. A good thunderstorm came in and there was lots of lightning in the area. After lunch I drove to the lower lot to try different water. The 2 other fisherman were in the middle section. I continued to have great success with my same rig. The fishing was a little slower but I was fishing after the other 2 fisherman. The runs are deeper in the lower section and I saw numerous nice fish. My rig was not set up to get down to them so I simply moved on and continued to catch fish on the dry. I stopped fishing at 3:00. I landed 25+ fish. 1 nice Brown and the rest were Rainbows. A very nice river section and a beautiful valley. I would highly recommend this section of water.



Name: Steve and Diana Fitzgerald Date Submitted: 9/27/2008
Email: sfitz88@comcast.net
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Fished from 10-5, sunny and seasonal with temps in 60s to low 70s. Thunderstorms in pm but that did not impair things much. Having looked at the RMAC website and talked to the people at the Redstone Inn (where we were staying), I started off on a Para Adams trailing a black copper john, caught a rainbow in a riffle on my first cast, and pretty much stayed with that all day. Caught 21 trout, and three whitefish, about 2/3 on the dropper, but more on the dry as the day wore on. Water level was low, and often trout were in very shallow spots happy to hit a dry. Scenery was incredible, and one of my favorite RMAC trips in a long time. Make sure you get back to the Inn for the 4:30-5:30 wine on the veranda!



Name: Mike Plante Date Submitted: 9/20/2008
Email: mdplante@comcast.net
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Used a hopper dropper combo that resulted with a few rises and two nice fish. One went about 18". A great time of the year to be in the Redstone area.



Name: MIKE BEATTY Date Submitted: 8/18/2008
Email: rmbeatty@hotmail.com
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Fishing was great, but my fishing buddy was fishing up to the biggest, deepest hole on the property when he ran into two middle aged men who were hauling out large rainbows with spinning rods, killing and keeping them. My buddy pointed to the private sign which they were parked beside, told them that taking fish was illegal, that they did not have tags on, that this was a fly fishing only area and (pointing to me) said that the owner was coming and that they better get there asses out of there! They did, but that property is so close to the highway, there is no fence, and must be tempting to poach.



Name: Russ Lofqust Date Submitted: 10/3/2007
Email: rglofquist@hotmail.com
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The weather started to cooperate today. Today is warm maybe mid 60s and a little windy. Im using a red San Juan worm with split shot hung below the fly about six inches. I caught about a dozen fish on this rig. One had to be about 16 inches long. They love the red worm. The smaller fish attack it while the larger fish just suck it up. For the bigger fish each one felt like a snag until that snag started to pull back. This red San Juan worm is becoming my favorite fly and the Crystal is becoming my favorite river.



Name: Elliott Date Submitted: 9/12/2007
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Nice water and lots of fish, browns, rainbows and whitefish. Large prince nymphs s16 worked best. Caught one rainbow on top. Loved the Redstone Inn dining room, a great place.



Name: Kyle Date Submitted: 8/5/2007
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One of the best days fishing ever had. Fish from 10"-17" on elk hair caddis, para Adams, royal wulffs, streamers and ants. Water was turquoise and scenery beautiful.



Name: Matt Date Submitted: 7/15/2007
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Fished well in the afternoon for 10-15 inch rainbows and a few browns. Any bh nymph worked well. Had one big fish on and was broken off. Spectacular scenery!