Grand Lake - Boat ramp hours are 6am - 8pm. Overall activity on the lake is starting to slow as school is starting up again and vacation season comes to a close. Fishing for all species is fair. Rainbow trout action is best right at sunrise with Blue/Silver, Pink/Silver Little Cleo Spoons worked along the shorelines, focus on the areas around the inlets in 10-20ft of water. Best action for brown trout has been along the rocky shorelines around the town docks or the cliff like shoreline areas. Pitching crawfish colored tubes and smaller jerk baits will produce fish. Lake trout are being caught in the 60-100ft of water range. Powerbait twitch tail minnow on a 1/2oz jig head and a small piece of fresh sucker has been a productive bait. Fishing with Bernie Guide, Dan Shannon.
Williams Fork Reservoir- The east boat ramp hours are 6AM to 8PM daily. The water level has dropped to 95%, about 3 feet low. Inflow is 96cfs, outflow is 235cfs. Surface temp has dropped a bit to 65 warming to 68 mid-day. Visibility is still 10 to 12 feet. The Lake Trout bite is slow. Right now, we're seeing 12 to 14 fish per trip. The best bite is in 70 to 80 feet on a drop or just on top of the drop. Juvenile thru trophy class Laker's are mingling together. Small tubes, grubs, twister or paddle tail plastics tipped with sucker meat and hit with a shot of scent worked gently on or just above the bottom is producing some hits. With the slow bite patience is key to putting fish in the boat. Work each spot till the bite drops off then move. Northern Pike are slow as usual, 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. Please practice catch and release on all Northern's caught. Brown Trout are feeding 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 6am-8pm. Water level is 93% or approximately 5ft low. Water temperatures are still in the mid 60’s to start the day warming to low 70’s by end of day. Fishing for rainbows and browns has been fair. Key to find rainbow trout is cooler, moving water as these areas concentrate food as well as fish. A chartreuse colored spinner or spoon is a good selection for spinning gear or for the fly anglers a tungsten head egg sucking leech pattern worked slowly has also been producing fish. Brown trout action is very condition dependent right now, focus on the low light periods of the day or when the afternoon weather comes in. Rocky wind blown shorelines are key, an erraticially worked Dynamic Twitch Tube or jerk bait has been our go to baits. Lake trout action is good, target them in 65-100ft of water along drop offs and old river channels with deeper water very close. The color of baits seems to change daily, if not hourly some days but always in the 2-3” profile tipped with a very small piece of fresh sucker meat. Use a 1/2 oz jig head, keeps those hooks sharp and pay close attention for the light bites. As always stay mobile to find the active groups of fish as this late in the summer not all groups are actively feeding. Fishing with Bernie Guide, Dan Shannon.
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