r/COfishing

Hi there. Long time lurker first time poster. And it’s an unfortunate post. I left my fly rod on the side of the road by the Arkansas river in between Buena Vista and Leadville. I won’t go into details up front but I know the exact location and can give a description of it. Probably a long shot but well worth it. Please, please say someone found it and turned it in or is waiting to see this post? I’m gonna make the two hr drive down there regardless but I’d be much happier if I knew I was getting it back. It has some sentimental value to me as it’s the first rod my uncle gave me to get me into fly fishing. DM me if you have any info!

I don’t know about other places but here it feels stupidly easy to catch them, just a jerkbait with line no more than 8lb test and slay them all day. Even the bigger ones like to come out to play fairly often. Makes me wonder why people think it’s so hard?

This isn’t really taking extreme fishing pressure into account (ex: Taylor tailwaters, Dream stream, cheesman), but even fairly high pressure fisheries (ex: Taylor river far below tailwaters, gunnison river) feel not that difficult to get them.

Is it just because I live in Colorado?

I’m going to be in Silverthorne/Breck tomorrow and was hoping to bag a salmon. Obviously we all know the flows are terrible. Has anyone had any luck on the Blue, Green Mountain Reservoir, up near Kremmling, etc?