Nov.12, 2016 Live Update from Decker’s, Colorado

 

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Happy Saturday night my friends!

Finally getting into a nice groove of writing my blog at the end of the day. It’s not that I underestimated what it would take to blog daily on a particular topic, but I did underestimate how long it would take to actually produce the end product, when you include picture editing, video uploads, content writing, jumping fish to distract you! The list goes on and on. In no way does this reflect any sort of complaining what so ever.  My life has truly changed since the first day I started writing this daily blog.  I spend my days fishing, observing, shooting pictures, watching wildlife, and best of all, meeting wonderful people from all over the world in one of the best places to fly-fish for Trophy Trout, in the State of Colorado! I had one of the best experiences to date just the other day. A young gentleman who happened to be fishing in the hole behind our house introduced himself . After I returned the pleasantry and told him that I had this website, he excused himself, interrupted me, and told me that he came to Colorado a month and a half ago. He had been following my blog for three months, while living in Minnessota. He then told me that the reason he was standing and fishing in the South Platte River, in Decker’s that day, was because of following my blog! That was a great feeling, knowing that someone has read enough of my, sometimes poorly written daily fishing report, and decided to come up and give us a try! Made my day!  Now that I’m six months into this new life, I’m happy to report that the intention of losing the  100 pounds has almost come to fruition! I’m down from 289 pounds in October of 2015, to 209 pounds currently. As I have spoken earlier about finding a groove to write about the daily fishing, I’m also trying to implement a writing schedule/platform, to incorporate my nutritional and life-style transformation into the blog. Until I can get it all figured out, I’ll keep you updated on my progress! Thanks again for all the support for the website and daily blog. My ultimate goal of this is to continue to provide reliable, current, and accurate information to make your Decker’s, Colorado experience and safe and happy one! Please enjoy the entire website!

Getting you up to speed on the real reason you came, the FISHING!! Alright, flows haven’t changed a hair in a almost a month! We’re still sitting around 68-70 (cfs) in both Decker’s and Trumbull,  pretty much all the way down Platte River Road to the Confluence. Canyon sitting at 65.5 (cfs), and haven’t personally been up there since mid-September, nor have I heard much since the flows were dropped on the 19th of October. Talking about the clarity again, as I only seem to do when the moss becomes a big pain in the you know where! It’s not that bad, especially if you’re nymphing in the faster, somewhat deeper runs along the river. Yes, deeper runs do exist during these low flow periods, that’s why getting away from the main bridge area and upstream will expose you to brand new places to find fish holding during these periods. There are several great spots to fish right now between the Sugar Creek Rd. turnoff and Scraggy view. This stretch of river has several spots where the channel repeatedly narrows, followed with several run-offs, that drop into deeper pools. This is where I’ve been picking up fish early, exclusively nymphing with a three-fly rig of an egg or worm, followed with a pheasant tail or even sometimes another egg, trailing a few different successful bugs like the red zebra, fire midge, olive midge, purple juju, clear-bead head black beauty.  When I returned from fishing downstream, I returned to my yard, where I found Jerry, my buddy I met on the river, was fishing with his buddy “Dub” to some rising fish along the ever-present bubble line that has been occupying this section of river for weeks!  Starting out with a Parachute Adams by itself, I threw what seemed to be 500 casts, before finally giving up on that bug and put on a two-fly rig with a BWO, size#22, and trailed it with another one! simply a size down, #24. Two casts later, I caught a small brown, satisfied my need to catch a fish on a dry and decided to go nymphing in an area we like to call the “land of the Giants.” When the fish aren’t rising on the dry’s, or I’m after bigger fish, because let’s face it, you generally catch bigger fish down deep, or at least I do on the South Platte, I’ll nymph!  I was using the pole from this morning, set up with that double-egg deal and trailing the olive midge. I threw this trio into a run no wider than 3 feet, but slightly deeper,  and when the trail bug hit the water, even before the strike indicator had touch the water, I was hooked up on a nice brown!  My two friends, Jerry and Dub were both spin fishing today, and I must say folks, I was rather impressed with both my friends, who I witnessed personally remove barb-crimped hooks from all of their fish, leaving no fish injured or in distress for prolong periods at any time. I know this is a touchy subject of some of the naturalist, but that’ not what my blog or website is all about. As long as you are not using live bait, or snaring fish, I don’t have the right to say anything about your choice of equipment or tactics to catch fish. Today’s picture gallery has a few shots of Dub and the nice fish he was able to net while fishing the “hole.” Looking like another dry, but warm and beautiful day here in the valley. Forecast is for high temperature of 63 degrees, with 5-10 mph winds. Look for that mid-morning midge and BWO hatches around 10:30/11:00. That’s all for today my friends, looking forward to sharing more with you tomorrow! Take care and have a great evening!

Chris