Grand Lake - Boat ramp hours are 6am-6pm. Water temperature is in the mid 50’s. Rainbow trout action has been very good with fish active along the shorelines in less than 10ft of water. A Little Cleo or Kastmaster spoon in blue and silver worked with a lift-fall retrieve has been consistently producing. Lake trout action has been good, look for them in 30-50ft of water. Slab style spoons or Clam Leech Flutter spoons tipped with sucker and jigged aggressively in the schooled up spawning lake trout been producing good numbers of fish.
Williams Fork - The east boat ramp hours are 7am to 7pm daily. The lake is about 9 feet low (85% capacity). Inflow is 12cfs outflow is 89cfs. Surface temp at 7am has been running 55 warming to 57 mid-day. Visibility is 9 to 10 feet. The Lake Trout bite has been very good on eater size fish. Right now, we're seeing between 12 to 25 fish per rod depending on the day. Mixed age groups can be found in 60 to 80 feet of water. 70 to 74 feet seems to be producing best right now. Unlike Granby and Grand it's difficult to locate Lakers on Williams Fork with sonar. I'm guessing it's because the large laker's in Will Fork hunt down instead of up which has conditioned the smaller fish to hang tight to the bottom. Once you find a fish stop and drop, there's more there than what you see on the screen. 2 to 3" plastics (we're using small tubes) tipped with sucker meat fished gently on or just off the bottom is getting bit. The bite gets started around 9am and lasts till about 1pm. Northern's are slow, in part due to a decrease in population and many of bigger fish no longer live in their traditional habitat. Some have moved to deeper water where food is more plentiful (think Lake Trout). Please practice catch and release on all Northern's caught. Brown Trout are active along the rocks north of the east boat ramp, and in the inlet before the sun hits the water. The lake hasn't been stocked with Rainbow's or Kokes since 2019 in an effort to control gill lice, so there isn't much action fishing for them. Randy H - Guide Fishing with Bernie
Lake Granby - Boat Ramp hours are 6am - 6pm. Water level is at 86.5% or approximately 10.5 ft low and water temperatures are hanging in the mid 50’s. Rainbow trout action has been excellent around the islands and dam faces. Fly anglers are finding success with Clouser minnow and egg sucking leech patterns in dark colors. Dynamic Twitch tubes and flutter spoons in pink and white have been our go to lure choice when fishing with spinning gear. Lake trout action is very good, use your electronics to locate the large schools of spawning fish in 30-60ft of water. P&D Lure Company glow twisty tail grub in chartreuse and purple on a 3/8oz jig in head in a contrasting color has been our most consistent bait. If the bite slows but you are still consistently marking fish, make a switch to a Clam XL Flutter spoon or a jigging rap to work the reaction bite with these schools, and don’t forget to tip with fresh sucker! The weather forecast looks like it may be a cool weekend, but still an excellent time to get out and enjoy fall fishing in Grand County. Fishing with Bernie Guide, Dan Shannon.
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