Dec.22, 2016 Fabulous fishing report from Decker’s

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Happy Holidays!

Greetings All, and welcome back to the most up to date fishing and conditions report, from Decker’s, Colorado! Alright folks, it’s been an up and down week with the weather, and the fishing has certainly reflected the changes. Let’s update you on the current flows of the South Platte through Trumbull. Right now, we’ve got 103 (cfs) below Cheeseman Dam, with about 115 through Decker’s/Trumbull.  The water temp has increased slightly from 39 to 41 and the moss is pretty bad right now, but the fishing is definitely worth the slight inconvenience.  Overcast skies today, with winds picking up later this afternoon and a high temp today of 39 degrees.  Alright, now to the good stuff.  The last couple of days have been really good nymphing! On Friday, the action was fantastic as the cold  front moved in, dropping the pressure and really getting the trout active! Fishing with a standard three-fly nymph rig, I was consistently trailing multiple RS-2’s behind a various indicator bugs such as the Hare’s Ear nymph, Pheasant tail, Scuds,and even had Egg pattern at one point, after catching a big female Cut-bow that was just plum full of eggs!  Throughout the weekend, as we went from -15 one day, to almost 60 the next, ice will form on the river’s edge and on the river rocks,  which results in trapping the small midges, scuds, and other bugs that make up large portion of the trouts diet this time of year. When that ice starts to melt and releases all of that food, the trout are prime for taking! Along with the grey and tan RS-2’s that I’ve had great success with, I’ve also caught several large fish with a variety of colored jujubee midges and the red rojo midge. Last week when we saw an increase in the flow, combined with the cold front, the fish went deep and were feeding heavy on the emerging midges and midge larva on the bottom. This tactic proved to be rather successful in enticing some pretty big fish to take the bait! That’s all for today my friends! More to come this weekend and I hope to see you on the river soon.

Chris