Grand Lake - Boat ramps are open 6am-8pm 7 days a week. Water temp is in the upper 60’s and fishing remains good. Rainbow trout and Brown trout action is good along the docks and inlets with 1/8oz Blue Fox spinners with pink or silver blades or small crank baits. Trollers are reporting success with cow bells and pink spinners tipped with small piece of worm inBlack or glow colored grub tipped with sucker meat worked right on the bottom is producing good early in the mornings. When the lake starts to get busy with traffic, its time to fish flutter spoons and blade baits to get more of a reaction bite, tip with a small piece of sucker for the extra enticement but don’t make it too big so it effects how the jig works. Fishing with Bernie Guide, Dan Shannon.
Williams Fork - The east boat ramp hours are 6AM to 8PM daily. Water capacity is holding at just under 100%. With all the recent rain inflow has increased to 157cfs, outflow is 92cfs. Looks like surface temps may have reached the summer high of 67 early am warming to 72 mid-day. Visibility is good, I lose sight of jigs at about 12 feet. Lake Trout fishing is still good early AM while the fish are actively feeding, but by time the chill has left the air the bite gets slow until late afternoon. Keeper size fish are eager to bite small tubes or grubs tipped with sucker meat worked gently on the bottom. Start adding scent when the bite slows. I'm seeing mixed age groups in 50 to 90 feet of water. Big Lakers are feeding on small Lakers, so sitting on juvenile fish can be a good thing. Brown Trout have been active early am biting small spinners in the inlet where the river meets the lake. Browns can also be found along the rock cliffs north of the boat ramp. Rainbow Trout, Kokanee Salmon and Northern Pike are slow due to low population. Please practice catch and release on all Northern's caught. Fishing with Bernie Guide, Randy H.
Lake Granby - Water Level is 98%. Boat ramp hours are 6am-8pm at Sunset Ramp 7 days a week and Stillwater ramp Friday-Sunday. Surface water temps are in the upper 60’s in the morning warming to about 72 by the afternoon. Fishing for rainbow trout and brown trout has been fair. Target 10-20ft depths for these fish along the rocky dam faces or in the areas of moving water. Pink and silver spoons, spinners and worms drifted under a float have been working well early and late in the day. Lake trout action has been very good to excellent depending on the day. Look for the most active fish on main lake structure in 50-90ft of water. A 3/8oz or 1/2 oz Chartreuse jig head with a glow or purple grub jigged slowly on the bottom has been producing good numbers of fish. A contrasting colored jig head seems to help as well as moving until you find an active pod of fish. The bite for the larger fish is as good as it gets right now, a larger presentation like 6” plus tube jigs, in natural colors such as green, brown, or gray has been the ticket. Slow down that presentation to maximize the number of bites you get. Please practice good techniques and quick release, limiting time out of water with all released fish in these warmer water temperatures. Fishing with Bernie Guide, Dan Shannon.
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