Blue River Below Green Mountain Res
Flow: 1250
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
1st float trip of the season!
With runoff seeming like it would never end, we decided to brave it out and float the Blue. We put in at the private stretch of Blue Valley Acres cutting our float time down by about 2 or 3 hours and we would avoid the grueling put in at the dam at Green Mountain. Although we would miss fishing in the canyon, high water would have made fishing poor in the canyon anyways. (At least that's what I tell myself.)
We started off with a 2 or 3 fly rig consisting of a stonefly at the top and various other nymphs below. (copper john, hare's ear, price nymph, etc...) Pretty standard fare. Right away, we picked up a few fish in the private stretch before we even made it to the 1st diversion. A good sign! Fishing through Jurassic was good, with a little change to the rig with a pellet fly below the stonefly. We took more fish on the pellet style flies, with an occasional taker on the stonefly. Nothing monstrous, but impressive nonetheless! As usual, fishing after the ranch and to the take out was slow...throwing a streamer here picked up a dink or two. I wouldn't blame the river for it's poor fishing on this stretch, historically it's been bad but it could also be that we were tired from throwing such hugely weighted rigs through the ranch and that affected our presentation and drifts.
The take out for this float has changed from last year. The landowner who so graciously offered his land as a take out has decided not to allow it this year. Apparently too many people were trashing the property and not respecting the private property signs. I can understand. I'm pretty surprised that even with such low usage compared to the Colorado, this take out gets trashed pretty easily and quickly. A reminder to everyone, respect private property and pack out what you pack in!
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