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Offline lefty2053

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Headed over to the Blue Mesa Tomorrow
« on: Jan 25, 2012, 01:49 PM »
Going back again. Anyone else headed there tomorrow? I will be going through Delta then Montrose to get there. Anyone want to tag along let me know by tonight. Room for 2.
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Re: Headed over to the Blue Mesa Tomorrow
« Reply #1 on: Jan 25, 2012, 01:56 PM »
Had a friend there last weekend and there is a lot of open water.
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Re: Headed over to the Blue Mesa Tomorrow
« Reply #2 on: Jan 25, 2012, 02:09 PM »
Quote from: Prairiegoat on Jan 25, 2012, 01:56 PM
Had a friend there last weekend and there is a lot of open water.

There is always a lot of open water until the end of January to the middle of February. There is plenty of ice from the Elk Creek Marina back to the Lake City bridge. A good 12" plus.
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Re: Headed over to the Blue Mesa Tomorrow
« Reply #3 on: Jan 26, 2012, 05:53 PM »
Went out and caught 5 fish. 4 rainbows and 1 Lake Trout. Laker was 18.5"
2 Stocker size rainbows and 1 at 14.5" and the biggest was 16" Caught all 4 rainbows in a half hour. Spent 3 hours trying for the Lake trout and had 2 others on that got off about 10 feet down. That was in 60 FOW and the Rainbows were at 14 FOW. Beautiful day and got sun burnt face.
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Re: Headed over to the Blue Mesa Tomorrow
« Reply #4 on: Jan 26, 2012, 07:04 PM »
Cool, Lefy, 4 of us from Delta/Olathe are hitting it up Saturday, early for trout, then maybe lakers.  Gonna go out of Dry Creek.
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Re: Headed over to the Blue Mesa Tomorrow
« Reply #5 on: Jan 26, 2012, 07:27 PM »
There is a lot of people going to the Dry creek area. I have never fished there myself. Maybe next time.
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Re: Headed over to the Blue Mesa Tomorrow
« Reply #6 on: Jan 29, 2012, 12:04 PM »
Fished at Dry Creek most of the day Saturday,

Lots of folks on the ice,

We fished the bluffs for browns but they didn't cooperate at all.  A few 20" lake trout and about 30 rainbows for the 5 of us, but mostly stockers.  We each had 1 or 2 nice bows around 17"-18".  A slow bite, the jig had to be still mostly but slightly twitched once in a while.  Fish were most active in 15-20 FOW.  Ratso's and Finkee's tipped with mealies or shrimp.
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Re: Headed over to the Blue Mesa Tomorrow
« Reply #7 on: Jan 29, 2012, 12:15 PM »
Good deal. A couple of years ago I went to the Lake City Bridge and caught all bows until 3:30. Then all the browns came in. We caught several 15-18" Browns in a half hour. Thursday I caught 4 Bows in a half hour using a slender spoon with shrimp. They would hit it as soon as it got to the bottom of 14'. If they didn't hit it right away I would pull out the line in one hand and raise the rod until I could see the lure and then drop it back slowly.
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Re: Headed over to the Blue Mesa Tomorrow
« Reply #8 on: Jan 29, 2012, 04:39 PM »
Good report.  After all this sight fishing frustration at the Mile I'll be glad to get a day at Big Blue or Granby and stare at my vex for a while.
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