Grand Lake - Boat ramp open from 6am -8pm. Water temps are mid to upper 50’s depending on time of day. Fishing has been fair to good along the rocky shorelines and in the inlet areas for rainbow trout and brown trout. A carefully presented slip bobber with a pink tungsten jig and a small piece of worm has been working well. Brightly colored spoons or spinners have also been catching fish. Lake trout action has been fair with best action being found in 40-65 ft of water on a 3/8oz jig head with a black or white Berkely power grub tipped with a small piece of sucker worked right on the bottom. Stay moving to find the active groups of fish. Fishing with Bernie Guide, Dan Shannon.
Williams Fork - Ramp hour ae 6AM to 8PM daily. Water capacity is 100%. Inflow is 449 cfs, outflow is 408 cfs. Surface temp is 60/61 early am warming to 63 in the afternoon. Visibility is 12 feet plus. Most of the floating debris has made its way to the shoreline, but keep any eye out for stragglers. Jigging for Lake Trout has been consistently good early in the morning. On sunny days the bite drops off late morning, if you catch a cloudy day the bite remains good until noon or so. Look for Lakers in 50 to 80 feet of water. Most any natural-colored tube or grub tipped with sucker meat fished on the bottom is getting bit. Due to low population bank fishing around the campgrounds for Rainbow Trout is slow, but small Rainbows can be found in the inlet where the Williams Fork river runs into the lake. Kokanee trolling is very slow, again due to low/no population. Northern Pike fishing is also slow. The die hard that keeps after it all day may come up with a reward or two. Please practice catch and release on all Northern's as the fish are in decline. Fishing with Bernie Guide, Randy H.
Lake Granby - Lake is at 100% capacity. Surface water temps are low 60’s in the morning warming to mid 60’s by end of day. Boat ramp hours are 6am-8pm with Sunset ramp being open 7 days a week and Stillwater Ramp open Friday-Sunday only. Fishing has been good for brown trout in the right conditions. Look for the browns to be most active in the lowlight periods of the day or when its windy and overcast. Crankbaits and bright orange spoons worked erratically along rocky shorelines has been producing fish. Rainbow trout action has been fair early and late in the day. Shore anglers are having some success along the dam faces and creek inlets with bait presented along the bottom, or a fly and bubble early in the morning. Trollers are reporting success with silver cowbells and pink or chartreuse and silver spoons tipped with a small piece of shoepeg corn or a worm targeting 10-18ft depths. Seeing lots of kokanee on the sonar, but not having or seeing much success catching them consistently, though you will occasionally catch them trolling for rainbows. Lake trout action has been good in 35-65’ of water. Look for them in the rock transition areas where it changes to muddy bottom. Best baits have been 2.5 to 5” tubes in shades of green, gray or brown. A slow jigging cadence right on bottom has been enticing those subtle lake trout bites. Fishing with Bernie Guide, Dan Shannon.
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