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social media is abuzz right now about some permsicous women that live around the south park area. every dude in Colorado with a stiff rod is all up in arms about it. me? i got better things to do than hang out with hoodrats from hartsel that everybody was taking their turn on, so I drove west to see what other lakes looked like. 2 well known lake trout lakes 80 miles west of denver will be ready for ice fishing probably in about a few days... the single digit temps over the last few days have done its work and capped one about halfway from the inlet all the way to black creek... it sketched me out so i didn't try to chance it. i was gonna drive up to the bad eyesight lake but the road was a bit dicey... i imagine it was plenty safe though. a lake named after a rabid wild canine that drives an american branded vehicle had skim ice all over the west end... and billy's eating utensil was 80% open with its finger bays all capped out. i fished billy's spoon today with open water rods. it was a balmy 5 degrees with lots of steam emanating from the lake. caught a 22 inch pike off the bottom snapjigging spoons... and that was it. probably wait a week or 2 when i can walk on top of it. went to a lake named after a short elf dude in that 80's fantasy movie.... the lake had 5 inches of safe, hard ice that nobody has visited yet... so unlike that harlot from fairplay, i took my chances and was well rewarded. nothing was really big, maybe 14 inches... but all the fish kept had bright orange meat. caught my limit real quickly jigging kastys aggressively with cut shiner heads baited on it. fished granby at rainbow bay, throwing big lures and not even a nibble. lake is nowhere near ready for ice.will be back up there tomorrow to fish the arch nemesis of bavmorda's lake and officers gulch. i love grand county. id post pics but i cant access my FB. is there any other pages i can use besides photobucket?
driving all over heck in frigid temps catching small fish is way better than catching large fish in the warm sun every time-
Great report, way to put in the miles. I just wish I knew which lakes you scouted... I caught a mess of Kokanee near Grand County yesterday. It was 1F when we got out of the truck at 6am. Ice will likely be safe most places by Christmas.
What about the azure isolated flat-topped hill with steep sides near son-of-a-gun? Has anyone been out to there?
Lol I just got this one. I bet Iola is worth looking at. If not a phone call to gene Taylor’s will answer this question I bet
Thank you. It's a 3 hour drive each way from the Academy so if I go that way I want to make sure my kids won't be bored.
This **** wasn't funny on fish explorer and neither is it here. Too many people from that site on here too.
I bet they get bored with a 6-hour drive!
Sarge, a good lake to take your kiddies would be Skaguay Res. outside of Victor. Easy action to get their adrenaline up and you don't need to drive to that town in Egypt to find fish. If you're interested, PM me and I'll tell you how to fish it.
Does it have fishable ice on it yet? I didn't know it existed.
What are you talking about? I haven’t posted on Fxr in almost 7 years and this post is plenty informative.... you don’t need to namedrop names to know where I scouted, it’s pretty obvious. If you got nothing nice to say, don’t comment. Just stay in your lane.