"Halfordian Golfer" wrote in message
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On Mar 27, 11:21 pm, "Mike Makela" ten.tsacmoc@alekamm wrote:
"Calif Bill" wrote in message

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Used to be some ponds off Cherry Creek and there is Cherry Creek Res.
Been 20 years since I fished them.

Where about is the Cherry Creek area?

Cherry creek res is a city reservoir very popular with water skiers,
swimmers etc. There's very good carp fishing. The creek below runs
through downtown denver along speer avenue. If you walked down the
bike path you would get the odiferous waft of urine from the homeless
people. Be careful wading such that a discarded hypodermic needle
doesn't puncture your simms. Upstream cherry creek flows through the
high prairie of the front range. I've never heard of anyone fishing
it.

Chatfield reservoir, OTOH has the South Platte running through it. It
is on the SW side of things, up against the foothills.
It is a good fishing reservoir especially for trolling when the
boating activity is down. On the inlet side it can be interesting to
belly boat in the trees, flooded cottonwoods and the heron rookery,
for a potpourri of fish, crappies, etc. There are some really good
ponds on the inlet side that can be walked and fished for large bass,
bluegill, crappie. Then you have Waterton canyon, just upstream.
Beautiful place, but heavy hiking/biking/fishing traffic. Great place
if you have a bicycle to ride up below Strontia Springs.
http://www.denverwater.org/recreation/strontia.html

Above that you get into the Deckers area which is accessed by car in
about an hour and change from Denver via highway 85 south to Sedalia,
then west. This is a superb flyfishing environment, if you can find a
place to actually stand in the water without rubbing waders with the
next guy. Is very pretty and clear and cold and nice, though. Just
upstream from Deckers is the very private Wigwam club and above that
the famous Cheesman canyon hike in stretch. One of (if not the very)
first pure C&R waters in the country. Beautiful canyon, huge waters,
tons of highly contrary fish and, again, an embargo of flyfishermen.

Your pal,

Halfordian Golfer

There were some ponds near Cherry Creek, but 16 years ago, was not anywhere
near the homeless or the building in Denver.