Loveland Fishing Club Blog

Boat ramp hours at Horsetooth and Carter reservoirs are being reduced for the fall season. Here's the schedule and a link to the Larimer County website:  https://www.larimer.org/naturalresources/parks/boating Horsetooth Reservoir Boat Ramp Hours Sept. 1st thru 30th, 2019 South Bay ramp 6 AM - 10 PM, 7 days a week Inlet Bay ramp 6 AM - 10 PM, 7 days a week Satanka ramp Sept. 3rd-15th 8 AM - 8 PM, 7 days a week Sept. 16th-30th 8 AM - 8 PM, Friday, Saturday and Sunday only Starting Oct. 1st, 2019 South Bay ramp 7 AM - 7 PM, 7 days a week Inlet Bay ramp 7 AM - 7 PM, 7 days a week Satanka ramp Closed for the season Starting Nov. 1st, 2019 South Bay ramp 8 AM - 4 PM, 7 days a week Inlet Bay ramp 7 AM - 7 PM, 7 days a week Carter Lake Boat Ramp Hours Starting May 1, 2019 North ramp 6 AM - 10 PM, 7 days a week South Shore ramp 6 AM - 10 PM, 7 days a week North Pines ramp 6 AM - 10 PM, 7 days a week

Howdy, Most of you are aware of how boat day works, basically sign up or let Rick know that you are willing to share your craft or want to be a rider. September is a busy month with lots of activities and is also one of the busiest time for anglers to go fishing and others to take vacations. As a result Boat day may not garner a lot of interest but then again temps should be cooling and maybe the fishing will be better too. 02 Sept----Labor Day 11 Sept ---Boat day 14 Sept ---Harvest Bazaar at Chilsons 16 Sept----Board meeting 17 Sept----Monthly meeting 25 Sept----Senior Fishing Derby I'll have a signup sheet at Friday breakfast, time is short to get this together and we also need to have volunteers for preparing lunch again. Thanks, Rick

The idea sprang to mind more than a decade ago, when then-President Ray Park pondered ways to leave his mark on the Loveland Fishing Club’s legacy. We settled on the idea of a day of fishing for folks even older than ourselves, and began to scour the country for ideas we could steal, mostly by Internet search. We found a ton of “senior derbies,” but all seemed to involve some sort of blanket invitation for old folks to come out and fish. Hey, we already had a club for that. And so, over coffee, the idea evolved:   Why not a senior fishing derby for folks who find themselves physically unable to still get out and fish? We began talking with administrators of Loveland independent and assisted living centers, and on in fall 2006, held the first-ever Loveland Fishing Club Senior Fishing Derby, at Flatiron Reservoir southwest of Loveland. It may sound odd to have a bunch of mostly octogenarians hold an outdoor event for other octogenarians. But really, it’s simply a case of doing ...

Looks like Rick Golz is having a good time catching fish in Wisconsin! Photo by Rick Golz

By Bill Prater (This article will also appear on the Fish Explorer website. Most of us nod our heads at the old cliché, “ Dance like no one else is looking .” Well, the same is true about learning to fish, or getting back into the sport after a lifetime of being a responsible adult. Since my own retirement right after the turn of the millennium, I’ve been a zealous member of the Loveland Fishing Club, (Our Motto: the club is open to everyone, but we fish during the week and we meet at the Chilson Senior Center ). Over the years we have welcomed a fairly steady stream of newly retired folks. A few join us with enviable skills, armed with the latest equipment and knowledge of some or all freshwater sport fish. Most were like me, though, a guy who remembers being a legendary angler in my teen, but that was half a century ago and I sometimes forget things. They come seeking fishing buddies and maybe a little help getting back in the game. Let’s talk about how to do that. This will be ...

As far as I can tell, we have more boats than we have riders. That means a few boat owners should leave their boat at home ride with another owner.  Anyone still wanting to participate can use the Sign up sheet, available at Friday breakfasts, or you can get in touch with Rick Palmieri. Charlie Higgs and Pat Mikulak have volunteered to do lunch for everyone around noon when we get off the water.. The  typical schedule is 8am to noon  but some may want to start earlier. Starting times and meeting places are determined by the boat owner and anyone that rides with that owner. Friday breakfast is a good time and place to work that out. I'll be sending an email to those that have signed up soon. Right now we only have 11 people for lunch. Thanks, Rick

Photo by Pat Weller Fished at North Michigan  Reservoir  last week with this hardy group, from left, Bill Prater, John Gwinnup, Rick Palmieri, Dave Johnson, Pat Mikulak and Jim Visger. Not many fish but lots of Colorado wildlife, red fox, doe deer with twins, Rocky Mountain sheep, 5 moose! WOW!  Also fell in a creek crossing when the bottom disappeared,  (up to neck)!  I am now a believer  in waders belts!

Or it seemed that way to Gwinnup and Prater on that fateful last day of July 2019. The Loveland Fishing Club's annual trek into the high country had wound its way west to the Delaney Butte lakes, legendary for big trout and equally big, murderous hordes of biting insects. On this fateful morning, most of those bugs seemed to realize some of us were planning to fish with a mosquito imitation, and vowed to keep us off the water. It came to pass, not long after dawn, that Bambi-like Jim Clune emerged from that Lincoln Navigator of his wearing nothing a naive grin,short pants and sandals. In an instant, John Gwinnup and Bill Prater fell upon him and began dousing the lad's bare head and hands with insect repellant. By the thousands, though, the mosquitoes, fell on Jim's bony, bare knees and tried to carry him off into the sagebrush. Only a half bottle or so of Cutter's kept them at bay until Jim could slip into his waders and rubber fins, surviving to fish another day. ...