Denver fishing?

"~^ beancounter ~^" wrote in message
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try an hour drive north on I25 and up big
thompson canyon ( hwy 34 ) ......or the poudre ( hwy 14 ) cnyn...

lots of spots to stop and ff along the way .... you
can see some great scenery along the way as well !!...






On Mar 26, 1:58 pm, "Mike Makela" ten.tsacmoc@alekamm wrote:
Heading up on a business trip the week of 5/11.

Will be in town all week, and the schedule will be mostly full
9-5/Mon-Fri,
but how about close to the city for evening fishing?

Will try to get there early on Sunday to get a mostly full day in, where
must I fish?

Mike


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

"Halfordian Golfer" wrote in message
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On Mar 26, 4:50 pm, "Tom Littleton" wrote:
"Halfordian Golfer" wrote in message

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On Mar 26, 2:58 pm, "Mike Makela" ten.tsacmoc@alekamm wrote:
Heading up on a business trip the week of 5/11.

Will be in town all week, and the schedule will be mostly full
9-5/Mon-Fri,
Will try to get there early on Sunday to get a mostly full day in,
where
must I fish?

Mike

...............

Hi Tom,

I'm definitely game. I think the problem might be runoff. There's a
lot of snow in the hills this year. I *like* fishing the runoff and
usually do well on the edges, though it's hardly what people expect.

Mike stay in touch and, if you're game, let's hit it.

Tim

Hi Tim,

Will keep you in mind. Don't mind fishing the edges during run-off if that
is what works. Have had to do it many times on Penn's and other streams
during rainy seasons.

Thanks for the hospitality!

Mike

"Frank Reid" wrote in message
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On Mar 27, 11:15 am, Halfordian Golfer wrote:
On Mar 27, 9:49 am, "Wayne Harrison" wrote:

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And the Rotten Banana Stonefly is the fat cousin.
Frank Reid

Rotten banana? You must still using the original batch.

Figured you would have cut down some trees with those things by now.

Mike

"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?

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

"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.

On Mar 28, 6:02*pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
"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.

I totally believe you Calif Bill. I think this whole front range must
have been awesome at one point. I moved here in 1960. I'd really like
to know where these ponds are, maybe you could find them on Google
maps. Let me go Look. Be right back. Looks like a couple near that
golf course at Arapahoe road, do you know if they were up towards or
past Parker? I remember fishing below Cherry Creek reservoir many
times as well, though I don't recall doing any good. When Quincy
reservoir was opened we hit that hard for excellent 4# plus bows. Not
sure how that has been fishing. I hear Aurora res is good too. Also,
when I say there are carp, I am not being derogatory in the least.
These are grass carp and are highly difficult fish to catch. Very fun
to wade around the cattails stalking these fish. In the evening, with
the sun setting in the distance on a warm may night wading in your
lightweight waders wouldn't be awful. Now there are some ponds on
private property near the all girls St. Mary's Academy, two favorite
haunts as a kid, that had huge, I mean huge, trout. That story must be
told in private, however.

Another place that I hear is coming on is the tail water of pueblo
reservoir. The Arkansas might be a good bet as well. Pretty good drive
but access and fishing all the way up from Canon City. I think the
Goldens are earlier than may but I'm not positive. Either way the
golden stone is very effective year round.

Your pal,

Halfordian Golfer

"~^ beancounter ~^" wrote in message
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try an hour drive north on I25 and up big
thompson canyon ( hwy 34 ) ......or the poudre ( hwy 14 ) cnyn...

lots of spots to stop and ff along the way .... you
can see some great scenery along the way as well !!...

Shear idiocy. On 5/11 both of those rivers will be in spring runoff,
unfishable and scary to stand close to.




On Mar 26, 1:58 pm, "Mike Makela" ten.tsacmoc@alekamm wrote:
Heading up on a business trip the week of 5/11.

Will be in town all week, and the schedule will be mostly full
9-5/Mon-Fri,
but how about close to the city for evening fishing?

Will try to get there early on Sunday to get a mostly full day in, where
must I fish?

Mike

Halfordian Golfer wrote:

Either way the
golden stone is very effective year round.


makela is one of the beat golden stone nymph flyfishers i've
encountered. if you get the chance, it's worth a day watching him
prospecting for trout.

jeff

On Mar 29, 7:14*am, jeff miller wrote:
Halfordian Golfer wrote:
Either way the
golden stone is very effective year round.

makela is one of the beat golden stone nymph flyfishers i've
encountered. *if you get the chance, it's worth a day watching him
prospecting for trout.

jeff

I wonder if a decent strategy would be to plan on driving upstream on
the Ark until the conditions, and maybe even the head of the hatch,
were found. You can drive all the way to Leadville at over 10,000
feet. Shouldn't be too much runoff that high, and I imagine an eagle
eye would spot fishable water even in the worst of it. There'd also be
other options in the area and the scenery would be fantastic. If the
loop included returning via I70 at Copper Mountain there might be a
rise at the ponds at Dowd Junction, or even the ponds just north in
Frisco, Ten Mile Creek or the inlet of Dillon. The downside would be
that Mike would be tired on monday!

Your pal,

Halfordian Golfer