Wooooo hoooooo

[riverfever]

Highway 67 from the WP to Deckers officially re-opened this weekend and I was there to re-familiarize myself with that section of water. I love that canyon. If it were socially acceptable...I would dry hump it. Anyway...on with the program.

Fishing was world class, as always. They were stacked up in the shallows. Some of the browns had to be left alone b/c they were gettin' busy but there was plenty of rainbows feeding. I did manage several browns that simply could not resist my drag free drift. :laugh3:

I did expand my horizons a tad today. Look at this sucker:

In order to think like a fish....I must look like a fish:

Not sure what the hell it was but it liked the way a natural San Juan worm looked. Anyone verify this freak of nature?

 

[wall04]

Man, I'm jealous. That is a sucker. The dorsal (sp?) fin looks a little large but that's it.

I was told that when the railroads were going throgh they brought in a lot of labor from China. Those laborors brought in the suckers and stocked the lakes etc. where they were working the line. That's how the suckers got into Colorado and Wyoming.

Curious. What brand of waders do you like? I may try to get in a couple of days in November. I like to fish the upper St. Vrain watershed pocket water. The fish are small but there is hardley ever anybody around.

 

[riverfever]

It was a crazy lookin little fish. I've seen them in there before but never hooked one. Big scales, kinda cool gold color. Something different.

I wondered about how they got here. You make a good point with the railroad. I'll ask some of my guide buddies what they say about that business.

As far as my gear....I'm a HUGE Simms fan. Their waders rock. Excellent in the summer. Way breathable. On the coldest days in December and January I wear their fleece pants underneath and I use one of those hand warmers in each stocking foot. I'm good all day.

 

[riverfever]

Oh bollocks....why isn't that second pic showing? :sure:

 

[Idiot Wind]

you caught that IN Cheesman Canyon? I have never seen one in there. I hate those things. Nothing worse than targeting a pod of what you believe are browns and then after 45 minutes of absolute pounding you finally catch one and find out it's a sucker. I catch those quite often in Bear Creek during the winter months for some reason.

You're supposed to throw 'em up on the bank but I can't get myself to do it. Ugly as they are, they're still fish ya know?

Good to know they reopened that road, a trip there is more manageable. Must happen soon.

 

[planefixer]

That would be a White Sucker-Castostomus commersoni.When is it going on the wall???

Scott, the South Platte is lousy with suckers.There's one pool above Spinney where we have impromptu sucker derbys.You can catch a lot of them on deep drifted nymphs.

 

[riverfever]

I don't know man....I might just start targeting them specifically. It'll be a whole new thang. I could make t shirts and hats. How bout....I'd rather be sucking.


Wait a minute. Scratch that. I'll stick to the trout.

You say the word IW and I am there. I'm down on work right now so I haven't worked a full 5 day week in a month now. I was actually getting bored with the Spinney Ranch scene so I was sprung running up and down the Canyon today. They were every where.

 

[GottaBeJeep]

Great to hear that area is open again. That is the only area I have fly fished. Used to come up in the summers and camp at that site just up from that general store across from that big rock. I thought you were joking when you first posted that picture and said "look at this sucker". You really didn't know that was really a sucker? Back in Missouri, they would run late winter/early spring up the creeks after the first big spring rain. The locals would go "sucker grabbin'" with big catfish rods with large treble hooks with constuction tape on the hook for visibility, and they would snag those things all day long and throw them in huge burlap sacks. Some of the towns folk I lived near would have a huge sucker fry. I hated that time of year because a lot of dead suckers would wash up or be left on the bank and the good fishing holes would stink for weeks. They do fight pretty good though. I just caught them with a nightcrawler easy enough just for the fight, and you would catch them all day long, but I wouldn't keep them. Most of the suckers were in the 5-10lb range, so they were fun to catch when nothing else would bite.

Sorry to sound like a rambling idiot. Just miss the good old days when it was nothing but school and fishing.