Fly Fishing the South Platte in Downtown Denver
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Trouts Winter Fly Fishing Colorado: The Dream Stream
Closed for the day! The Trout's Fly Fishing team closes shop and rings in the New Year on the fabled Dream Stream in South Park, Colorado.
Trouts Fly Fishing: Cheesman Canyon in Winter
Cheesman Canyon has long been the favored fishery for all the staff and guides at Trouts Fly Fishing. Whether it be the miles of hike access only river, the majestic canyon scenery, or the challenging fishing, a day in Cheesman Canyon is one of the best ways to experience Colorado with a fly rod in hand.
Filmmaker Russ Schnitzer follows members of the Trouts team as we spend a couple memorable days exploring one of our favorite fisheries during a lesser popular time of year.
Jigging for trout, south platte river, Denver, CO
Note: My trout handling skills are a little rough, forgive me. Using a trout slayer (yellow) with 4lb test and a Berkley cherrywood hd 5’6”. Hitting various spots in the river.
Denver Trout Unlimited - What We Do - HD 1080p 2
DTU holds an annual Carp Slam fly fishing competition on the Denver South Platte River. Funds generated are used as seed money, matching funds, and research studies to enable aquatic restoration on the 26 miles of Denver South Platte River through the city. Funds are also used for Trout in the Class Room in a Denver Public School. Chapter members also watch and take action on oil spills, fish trapped by construction activities, and river sweeps of trash from the urban environment. The river is well on its way to becoming a gem in the midst of a Rocky Mountain City.
Five Flies for December 2018 - Fly Fishing Cheesman Canyon
Where has the year gone? It's hard to believe that it's the 12th and final month of 2018. While we've certainly seen some remarkable snow already this season, fishing continues impress. With recent flow bumps on the South Platte, the states tailwaters are fishing really well and they are well worth your time even as the air temps settle into their winter ways. This month, we followed along with Trouts Denver Guides Danny Strine and Scott Dickson and hiked into Cheesman Canyon. After a banner day in the canyon, Danny talked about his go-to flies for these winter conditions!
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Big Brown Trout in Colorado
Every year, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) fishery biologists set up a spawn-take operation for brown trout at North Delaney Butte Lake near Walden, CO. Biologists capture brown trout and collect more than a million eggs, which are shipped to CPW hatcheries. Once hatched and raised, the brown trout are restocked in waters throughout the state. North Delaney is the primary source of brown trout eggs in Colorado. Although they are non-native, brown trout are some of the most popular fish among anglers.
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South Platte River Downtown Denver Carp Fishing
Five Flies for April 2019 - Fly Fishing the Colorado River in Spring
April is here and trout are starting to hone in on one of our favorite mayflies - the Blue Winged Olive/BWO/Baetis. After seeing midges for months on end, trout welcome this diminutive olive bodied mayfly readily, especially as the hatch strengthens and peaks through the month of April. While blue-winged olives might not be the biggest of bugs, anyone who has fished the South Platte, Arkansas, or Colorado on a cloudy spring day, knows that this can be one of the most productive hatches of the year.
With many of our state's freestones are starting to open up from top to bottom, Trouts Denver's own Regional Manager, Tanner Smith, and Head Guide, Scott Dickson, fished the middle Colorado. Fishing was good.
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Colorado Trout Fishing
It was almost 10am when the four wheels of our truck rolled into the dirt parking lot at Deep Lake, nearly 10,500 feet high in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. We’d missed the 8 a.m. morning bite two hunters that had put down their bows for a few hours in search of high country rainbows, lake trout and brooks told me.
“You guys might want to come back late this afternoon,” one of them, in his sixties, said. “The bite died about an hour ago. There’s too much sun now.”
“Where were you guys fishing?” I asked him.
“Right there,” he said, pointing to the shoreline adjacent to the parking area, 20 yards away.
There were a dozen other hunters fishing along the bank, most soaking bait and casting spinners. More important, fish were rising everywhere. A few buddies and I walked to where the man pointed, baited our rods with FireBait and Balls O Fire salmon eggs and had bites within 30 seconds, no exaggeration.
In the next 30 minutes we caught and released more than a dozen trout before we started to keep a few for dinner. The hunters were perplexed. We kept rolling balls of Rainbow, Chartreuse Garlic and Garlic Salmon Egg on treble hooks and cramming Gold Label, Premium, Orange Deluxe and Yellow Jacket salmon eggs other hooks.
Deep in the White River National Recreation Area, Deep Lake is a gem with trout that are hungry right now, presumably feeding in anticipation of the coming winter, even though it was almost 80 degrees this high up. Leaves were starting to change and trout wouldn’t stop biting.
We were in the neighborhood to film Pautzke Outdoors, our first episode in the Rockies, and more importantly to prove to an old friend that FireBait did work and rivaled any other dough bait on the market. Not surprising, after we caught the first few fish on FireBait, he wasn’t convinced.
“Do you know what this Feed Pellet Brown FireBait stuff looks like?” he said, laughing and poking fun. “I wouldn’t eat this, but let’s try it. If it works, I’m a believer.”
The camera was rolling, when I asked him on film why he didn’t like that color. Fortunately for us, within 15 seconds of hitting the water, a trout nearly pulled it out of his hand and the debate was over. He guarded the Feed Pellet Brown and Peach Garlic (another color he didn’t think worked) FireBait for the rest of the morning, continuing to catch rainbows on each cast.
The trout weren’t big. Most ranged between eight and nine inches, but with as short as the growing season up here is, we weren’t surprised. Meanwhile, they displayed wonderful, vibrant colors and spurts of energy. On four-and six-pound test they were a blast. We could have gone lighter, but due to extensive weed growth, we went with heavier line to avoid breaking off.
My other friend was already a believer in FireBait and is a huge fan of Gold Label salmon eggs, and Green Label, of course. He’d been using them more than 30 years, possibly longer.
“Watch this,” he said. “I’m going to catch one of those big brookies I was telling you about.”
After he told me he hadn’t fished here in seven years, I wasn’t sure there was anything larger than nine inches. He placed a Gold Label on the hook and then piled on another five to make sure there was enough for a big fish, he said. Within minutes he caught two brook trout, one in the size class he’d been bragging about for years, roughly 14 inches, maybe a tad longer.
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Bass Fishing Berkeley Lake, Denver - Wacky Drop Shot
It's great to get back fishing after a month of travel! I've been working on my drop shot technique most of the summer, trying to improve on this technique as it was one of those styles of fishing I never really used much.
On this day, I was up in the North Denver area finishing up some work and was lucky enough to have just over an hour of free time before I needed to head back home and was fortunate to catch 3 LMB in that time.
Gear used to catch these three fish:
Rod - No.8 Tackle BlackOut Med-Fast Spinning Rod
Reel - Diawa Laguna 2000-5Bi Spinning Reel
Line - 20lb SpiderWire Braid w/ 8lb Fluoro Leader tied w/ a FG knot
Lure - Bass Pro Tournament Series Stik-O-Worm in Watermelon Red Magic color
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Brook Trout Fishing Colorado
Brook trout fishing in the mountains.
The trout are spawning and bite lures and moving worms well, but only in the evenings.
Trout Fishing Colorado's Eleven Mile Canyon
Colorado's Eleven Mile Canyon is one of the most popular fishing destinations in the state. Roughly two hours from Denver and an hour from Colorado Springs the South Platte River migrates through the canyon where excellent trout fishing is found. The all-tackle section of the river is planted frequently by the Colorado Division of Wildlife. Armed with Gold Label and Pink Shrimp/Chartreuse Garlic Fire Balls we caught and released dozens of trout while filming this episode of Pautzke Outdoors in the Rocky Mountains!
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Fly Fishing Colorado. Catching Brown Trout on Bear Creek in Colorado!
Fly fishing Bear Creek for Brown Trout. 3 Browns caught using a Pale Morning Dun in Olive color.
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Small Stream Trout | Colorado
Host Bill Spicer travels to beautiful Colorado to fly fish for brown and rainbow trout in the Mountain Rivers and Lakes. He learns some new nymphing techniques from the guides that are invaluable information for any angler.
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Bass Fishing Lowell Ponds State Wildlife Area(Denver, CO)
A video of me getting out to the Lowell Ponds and checking things out! We had some good luck finding some bass on some beds and just plain old had a good time
Fly Fishing The Dream Stream - South Platte River, Colorado
Fly Fishing the Dream Stream - South Platte River, Colorado March 18th 2017. Nick Adams and Brian Sanford spent a day at the Charlie Meyers Recreation Area hiking, fly fishing for huge trout, and flying the DJI Mavic Pro. The Dream Stream is located between the Spinney Mountain Reservoir and the Eleven Mile Reservoir. This is a Gold Star Fishery and one of the most famous trout fishing areas in the United States.
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Fishing Lake Isabel San Isabel National Forest Colorado for Trout
Most people use bait at the lake but we always do great with dry flies. We just use a float with a 4' to 5' very light leader and a dry fly.
Five Flies for August 2019 - Dream Stream with Landon Mayer
For this month's episode of Five Flies, we're excited to welcome Umpqua Signature Fly Designer Landon Mayer into the fold. With flows dropping and prolific hatches occurring throughout the state, we're experiencing some truly fantastic fishing on freestones and tailwaters alike. Expect to encounter Golden Stones, Tricos, Yellow Sallies, Drakes, PMDs, and Caddis if you're looking to hit the water on the front half of the month. While there are plenty of classic flies (i.e. Chubby Chernobyls, Stimulators, Elk Hair Caddis, Parachute Adams, Extended Body Drakes and PMDs) to choose from, we sat down with Landon to talk about his confidence flies for the month of August for both rivers and stillwaters.
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Winter Carpin' Quickie
Rick, Jon and Kyle take advantage of a warm January day on the DSP.