Loveland Fishing Club Blog

The Loveland Police Fishing Derby is set for 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 3 at the North Lake Park Duck Pond, and we'll need every available club member to volunteer.  The club handles registration, fish measuring, tackle as needed, and hourly raffles for the kids, along with prizes for biggest and smallest trout.

Okay, while the rest of us stayed home Wednesday watching " Dancing with the Stars"  reruns, Dan Barker was at Boyd Lake, subduing in this 20.5 inch, 5.4 pound largemouth.  That's well above the minimum  18 inches for a Colorado Master Angler award, and I'm assuming puts him in a solid early lead for Loveland Fishing Club Angler of the Year!  Not a bad day's work. Photo by Kathleen Barker

Reporter Pamela Johnson of the Loveland Reporter Herald says the lease agreement on recreational water rights is in limbo, but there may be a one-year extension to allow for further talks. Here's a link to her article in today's Reporter Herald:

The forecast for Thursday is lousy, so we're reluctantly scrubbing the planned Boyd Lake Boat Day.  Dave Boyle will reschedule as weather permits.

Horsetooth  South Bay: 6 a.m.-10 p.m., 7 days a week Inlet Bay: 6 a.m.-10 p.m., 7 days a week Satanka: 6 a.m.-10 p.m., 7 days a week Carter North Ramp: 6 a.m.-10 p.m., 7 days a week South Shore: 6 a.m.-10 p.m., 7 days a week North Pines: 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday For information about annual and daily entrance permits, boat inspections and reservoir conditions for fishing, visit www.larimer.org/naturalresources.

Meet near the boat launch.   Here's the pairing for the day.  Organizer Dave Boyle says i f you're not on the list but would like to join in, we should be able to work something out.           Boat                                            Passengers Tom Miller                              Charlie Higgs, John Lewis Dan Barker                              Kathleen Barker, Jim Roode John Gwinnup                    Jim Visger, Leland Carpenter Pat Mikolak                             John Grady Fred Riehm                    ...

Copied this from our friends at FishExplorer.com, an e-mail from the state park ranger at Chatfield State Park.  This is all tied in somehow with the license increase legislation; still looks to be in limbo on exactly what lakes may be closed and when.  bill I know this thread is a powder keg but I'm hoping to I can be of some help... First off I want to clarify that I am a Parks Officer at Chatfield State Park and I am the one who oversees the ANS (aquatic nuisance species) program here at the park. I work with the people who head up the program statewide.  Secondly yes there are some waters that are going to be closed to boating other than exempt (handlaunched/kayaks/etc.). Thankfully this number is as low as it is because back in January during our supervisors meeting there was only funding for 1) the Denver office with a near 70% budget cut meaning only enough to fund the lab and the program coordinators and a few seasonal employees. 2) Lake Pueblo State Park 3) Cha...

There we stood, six of the Loveland Fishing Club’s finest, angling for big trout in a legendary North Park lake under superb late March conditions:  a brutally cold 25 mph wind from the west, half the lake still capped by rotten ice, and giant snowbanks blocking 90 percent of the shoreline.  The fishing would pick up dramatically on day two, but by late Thursday I hadn’t landed a single fish.  Desperate measures seemed reasonable. So when I climbed to the top of a steep, 35’ bluff and cast out beyond an inaccessible, snow-packed shoreline far below, I hadn’t really considered what would happen if something actually bit.  I quickly found that out when two seriously obese cutthroats headed straight for my little Gulp minnow, and the closest one took a bite!  In the clear, icy water we watched that fat fish fight for its freedom, going aerial, darting east and then west – the one direction that would eventually take her safely past the bluffs into muddy but ...