Grand Lake - Boat ramp hours are 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Fishing has remained good for all species. Best rainbow trout and brown trout action is early and late in the day with a silver colored spoon worked with a lift fall retrieve. Our favorite spoons for this are a Kastmaster, Little Cleo or Clam Leech Flutter spoon. Lake trout action has been good in the 25 to 40 feet of water range. A 2 inch tube tipped with a small piece of sucker meat worked on the bottom will produce strikes. The most productive colors right now are green or white. These fish are notorious light biting, so pay attention closely to your rod tip. Fishing with Bernie guide, Dan Shannon.
Williams Fork Reservoir - The east boat ramp hours are 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. The water level is at 87%, a little over 8 feet low. Inflow is 533cfs outflow is 94cfs. With the higher water flows floating debris is starting to show up, keep an eye out for logs and branches. Visibility is about 10 feet. Surface temp is 54 early morning and warming to 57 on calm sunny days. This week the fishing has picked up as we near the end of the midge hatch. Numbers fish are biting pretty good till about 11AM on small 2" - 3" plastics tipped with sucker meat, fished tight to the bottom with subtle jig strokes. I'm seeing plenty of trophy fish but it's challenging to get a hook in them as the lake was recently stocked with over 150,000 Kokane Salmon. Every big fish I've seen has a fat protruding belly, something we didn't see last year. Guess what the big fish are eating? Suspended/swimming fish are hunting and aggressive. If one swims in while working the bottom reel up and work that fish. We're getting bites off of those fish about 50% of the time. Look for all age groups in 45 to 55 feet of water, but they can be found deeper. Northern Pike is slow as the population is declining. Please help save the resource for other anglers and return all Pike to the water. Rainbow Trout have not been stocked for several years, so it's doubtful there's any catchable fish in the lake. The recently stocked Kokanee are very small and won't be catchable for a few years. Fishing with Bernie Guide - Randy Hall
Lake Granby - Boat ramp hours are 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Current water level is at 87.5% or approximately 10 feet low and filling daily. Water temperatures are 57 degrees to 62 degrees depending on time of day. Use caution traveling the lake there is quite a bit of floating debris. Fishing for rainbow trout and brown trout has been very good. Look for the best action along the rip-rap dam faces and inlets where fresh water is coming into the lake. Black bead head Wooley Buggers, Mepp’s spinners, and rainbow trout colored Kastmaster spoons have been producing fish. Brown trout action has been good on a Dynamic J-spec in rainbow trout or brown trout pattern as well as two inch brown tubes pitched in the rocks along the shorelines. Lake trout action has slowed a bit, but remains good. Lake trout are scattered around the lake which makes using your electronics to locate fish very important. Look for them in 40 to 70 feet of water relating to main lake structure like humps and points. two inch to 4 inch tubes in gray, green or brown colors have been producing well. Fish close to the bottom, a keeping fresh sucker meat on your hook is essential to enticing these fish to bite! Fishing with Bernie guide - Dan Shannon
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