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Name: Steve R	Date Submitted: 10/10/2012
Email: richheimer@zirkel.us
Date's Fished: Oct. 6, 2012
Commments:
The flow on this stretch of the Yampa River was low (~60 cfs) for this time of year but large rainbows were holding in and below most of the riffles.The weather was mostly cloudy and cool in the afternoon when we fished (1-4 pm). The three of us spred out and tried different flies but our greatest success was using an egg pattern trailed with a beadhead pheasant tail or prince nymph, although a few fish were hooked using a black zonker and/or woolybugger. All our fish (about a dozen total) were fat bows in the 16-23" range.

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Name: Vic Walker	Date Submitted: 8/27/2012
Email:
Date's Fished: 8/21/2012
Commments:
Fished a sunny morning on C-50. Water temps were in the high 50's. No surface activity to speak of even though there were clouds of tricos all morning. I started throwing a streamer for the first hour with no luck. I then switched to a red san juan worm followed by a trico spinner used as a nymph or drowned spinner. A guide friend of mine provided me with this tip a few years ago and it has caught many fish. It wasn't too long before I hooked my first fish. It also happened to be the only fish I would get to the net, a nice 20" rainbow on the red san juan worm. I would go on to hook another 4 fish on the trico, but couldn't land any of them. Working my way back to the car, I decided to try the streamer again. I hooked a very large fish under the bridge that made a run and broke my 10.5 lb leader. It was a large fish. Had a great day even though I couldn't seal the deal most times. This lease truly does have large fish.

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Name: Steve R	Date Submitted: 11/7/2011
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Date's Fished: Oct. 3, 2011
Commments:
Probably the most important thing about fishing this property is to double check your equipment to make sure it can handle big fish. On this pleasant Monday afternoon in early October the flows on the Yampa were good (perhaps 200 cfs) and the fish were hungrey. Went with my son-in-law who is an experienced fly fisherman and has guided on the Frying Pan and Roaring Fork. We used primarily a rig having a size 14-16 beadhead pheasant tail with a size 20 baetis nymph trailer. In the first main upstream riffle we caught several good-sized rainbows (18-20"). Then in this riffle my companion hooked a huge rainbow that took him down stream into the slacker water. He fought this fish for perhaps 15 minutes before it tired enough to bring close to the net. But before he could get it into his net--mine wasn't large enough but I could scare the fish upstream closer to his net--the line snapped! This was a great loss for this rainbow was about 26" and 10 lbs and would have been the largest trout my son-in-law ever caught. Afterwards he chalked the loss up to an old and weak 4X tippet explaining that he had not used the 4X in the last 2-3 years and it must have degraded with time. He left for the Green River the next day with new 4X tippet in hand, but greatly disappointed from lossing that trophy bow. Other riffles held fish but none could compare to the one that got away.

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Name: Russ Lofquist	Date Submitted: 9/26/2011
Email: rglofquist@hotmail.com
Date's Fished: Sept. 21, 2011
Commments:
I fished the property from 8-1 today. There’s lots of water and little time to figure it all out. From the parking space I worked my way up river and took the left-hand branch of the river. On the river, just past the fallen tree in water, that a bit of a riffle I got my only bite and fish of the morning. He took a red San Juan worm. He was big, maybe 20”, and made several runs. We fought for a while but he ended up in the net. I’m sure there were other fish in that run but none of them liked what I was offering.

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Name: S. Richheimer	Date Submitted: 10/10/2010
Email: richheimer@zirkel.us
Date's Fished: Sept. 29 and Oct. 7, 2010
Commments:
Flow on the Yampa at the Ranch was low (~110 cfs) but probably typical for early fall. It seemed like every run with some depth held large and hungrey rainbows. Numerous fat bows 20+" and 5+ lb were caught in the riffles. The most productive fly was a size 14 beadhead pheasant tail. However, trailing flys mimicing a BWO larva and emerger in size 20 such as the phesant tail and Barr emerger also caught fish. This is perhaps the best time of year to fish this property because most of the fish are concentrated in the deep runs or riffles, and between the bridge and the confluence with Trout Creek there are numerous such riffles and each one seemed to hold one or more large trout.

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Name: Greg	Date Submitted: 9/7/2009
Email: evansgs@comcast.net
Date's Fished: Sept 3, 2009 pm
Commments:
Nice property. Fished the Yampa near Steamboat earlier and was mossy, but this property not nearly as bad. Hooked big fish right off bat on small copper johns. Just for fun went to grasshopper pattern and caught six fish from 17 to the largest rainbow at 22". Rises occured but too small to mimic effectively. Fellow fishers did about the same. River low, did not need to wade except to cross river. Temperatures still cool and fish very healthy.

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Name: Mike Plante	Date Submitted: 9/7/2008
Email: mdplante@comcast.net
Date's Fished:
Commments:
Caught one but he was over 24" and heavy. Caught by the rapids in the large pool by the big log overhang.

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Name: Mike Johnson	Date Submitted: 8/1/2007
Email: mwjmd@gobrainstorm.net
Date's Fished:
Commments:
Fished only from 4-6 PM. My 13 year old son got bored very quickly and decided catching frogs on the bank was more fun. Water was very warm and fish were rising, but sluggish. We each hooked one fish, but my son got impatient and we left just when I felt the fishing would improve soon.

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Name: Thomas Battaglia	Date Submitted: 11/25/2006
Email: battagliat@bouldercolorado.gov
Date's Fished:
Commments:
First time on this property. Weather was fantastic-- no wind. Did not do exceptionally well nymphing, but did catch one 20" male and one 21" female on a s6 brown sculpin. My wife hooked a rather large whitefish that we didn't get into the net. This water is much deeper than we expected. The channel from the parking area to the convergence was pushing six feet deep, and the pool just below the convergence was 12 feet + ??

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Name: DUVAL MOSS	Date Submitted: 9/2/2006
Email:
Date's Fished:
Commments:
CLEAR SKIES, 72 DEGREES, WATER TEMP 65. TRIED VARIOUS STREAMERS WITH NO SUCCESS. SMALL NYMPHS (RS2, WD40, ETC)BELOW A BEAD HEAD NYMPH OR STONE FLY WORKED WELL IN RIFFLES, SEAMS AND TAIL OUTS. SEVERAL 20" AND SMALLER BROWNS AND SEVERAL LARGE RAINBOWS ALL CAUGHT IN THE DEEPER RIFFLES. DON'T USE TIPPETS SMALLER THAN 4X AS YOU'LL BREAK OFF IN THE FAST WATER. STRONG, HARD FIGHTING FISH. HIGH ON THE FUN FACTOR SCALE. ACCURATE CASTS AND DRAG FREE DRIFTS WERE ESSENTIAL. SMALLER BROWNS WERE RISING IN THE SEAMS AND TOOK DRY FLIES, SOME MAY HAVE BEEN WHITEFISH.

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Name: RMAC Member-Steve	Date Submitted: 10/1/2005
Email:
Date's Fished:
Commments:
Caught over 30 fish. Largest were 22 to 23 inches. Used bead head caddis and red fox squirrel hair emerger. Got a little windy in the afternoon.

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