Blue River in Silverthorne
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Flows 75
The fishing is on fire! DOW stocked the river with brooders about 10 days ago. Lots of "dumb" fish eating everything drifting in front of them and lots of residents still around post spawn looking great! Although local shop reports are saying that the fishing has slowed...the fishing is still excellent and now is your chance to get into some big fish without having to use 7x fluro and a perfect cast and drift.
Here are some hatchery tagged fish.
Pretty cool to see the tags that the DOW uses to mark them.
In addition to the tags, they also cut off the adipose fins on these brooders.
Fish were taking just about anything you had on. I started my set up with a two bit hooker to bring the flies down and dropped a rs2 and a WD40 behind and caught fish on all flies. I did start with 6x tippet, but after losing 2 flies to fish breaking me off, I switched to 5x and I didn't have any problem horsing in the fish after that. Bead eggs also produced and fish really liked the smaller pink sparkle bead.
But, I did have a resident fish take one of my multi-color midges so I'll be sure to tie up more of them for the Blue this winter!
A great day on the Blue! I was pretty excited to see that the DOW put some brooders in there. The fishing this winter has been average to poor which could have been for lots of reasons. (high fishing pressure, lower flows, weather conditions) But the fish survey that was done last year has shown a significant decline in fish population and size. Hopefully these fish will add to the numbers there and help increase the quantity of resident fish in the river when they spawn next spring.