Loveland Fishing Club Blog

Those of us who rely on Comcast have been annoyingly blocked from getting Chad LaChance's Fishful Thinker show because of a dispute between the Altitude Channel and the cable television provider. Chad's been posting some of his stuff on YouTube, and he just added a show about fishing for Steamboat Lake trout that makes me yearn for warmer weather. Anyway, here's a link  to the program. So, who else wants to go?

The following was a handout for the club's recent CPR training and includes good information on drowning prevention. First Aid Management of Drowning Posted on   May 7, 2013   by   Admin   in   Respiratory Issues Drowning is defined as respiratory impairment following submersion or immersion in fluid media – almost all include drowning in water. Cause of drowning may be either intentional or accidental and it is one of the commonest causes of injurious deaths in developing countries. Drowning is common among males in comparison to females, as well as among younger age groups compared to elderly. More than half of drowning cases take place in rivers, lakes and swimming pools than sea. It is to be noted that a deep place is not a necessity when comes to drowning, this happens specially when other factors like alcohol intoxication is operational; you can drown in your own bathtub. Mechanism of death in drowning victim: Immersion deaths (sometimes ...

Next months General Meeting on March 17th is at Swift Ponds (Colorado Youth Outdoors). Chilson's Senior Center is unable to host due to a large celebration. Meeting time will be the same as usual at 2:00 PM.

A four-day outing at some of northern Colorado's best big-fish waters is planned for Tuesday, June 2 through June 5. Jim Visger is coordinating the trip; you can contact him at 970-800-3399. Lodging is available at the Lake John Resort, including four cabins and an RV park with full hookups and drive-through sites. Cabins have kitchenettes and there are fire rings and tables at the campsites. For more information, click here . There are also motels in nearby Walden and free state camping around the lake on a first-come basis. Lake John is known for big rainbows, and bait fishing is allowed along with fly and spin fishing from the shore or boats and personal watercraft. You can also fish for rainbows, browns, cutthroat and cutbows at the nearby Delaney Butte lakes, Gold Medal waters with fly and lure only restrictions.

Annual dues are $25 for an individual, $30 for a couple. If you haven't paid for 2020 yet, please remit to Barb Ding as soon as possible. Anyone not paid up by April 1 will be dropped from the club roster.

A band of Loveland Fishing Club volunteers along with Regional Colorado Parks and Wildlife Biologist Kyle Battege and Matt Snider of http://fishexplorer.com   prepared some Christmas tree fish habitat for Bluegill Pond in the Fort Collins Riverbend Ponds Natural area Tuesday. It's the start of what we hope will be a series of projects with Natural Areas Biologist Aran Meyer to improve fish habitat in the natural areas' ponds. Here's a link to a CPW posting by Kyle: https://twitter.com/CPW_NE/ status/1227649405739663361?s= 20   

Twenty club members have signed up for the two-hour CPR training session at the Chilsen Center. Cost of the class is being covered by the club. For more information contact Ray Park,  rapark63@comcast.net T

https://www.thefishingwire.com/releases/94a725e2-18bf-4f84-8738-ba5a2a8ecb92  Winter is an especially hard time for most wildlife. It gets really cold, the wind blows a bit more, there’s often snow covering the ground, and ice forms on streams and lakes. Wildlife that we’re used to seeing in the summer has to adapt if they’re going to survive. Some animals like deer and coyotes grow extra heavy winter coats. Grizzly bears find sheltered areas like caves to crawl into and hibernate. Geese, ducks, and a host of other birds migrate to warmer climates. But did you ever wonder what fish do? Fish in lakes don’t have many options aside from moving to deeper water. Fish in streams and rivers have a whole different set of challenges to deal with because of the wide range of habitat types in a river. Their survival depends almost entirely on how, when, and where ice forms. Ice usually forms across an entire stream in late fall and gets covered with snow. This is an ideal situation for fish...

With the freezing and thawing of ice around here, bald eagles have been spotted frequently on area ponds and lakes, likely taking advantage of shad dieoff. Hard to match this report though:  Channel 9 News reports 116 bald eagles were counted in a five-minute period at Barr Lake State Park Monday.  Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) says 53 of the bald eagles counted Monday morning were adults, and 63 were immature.

The Colorado Walleye Association is planning an ambitious spring day devoted to that species, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 4 at the Adams County Fairgrounds near Brighton. Click here for a link to the website .

As a Midwesterner who migrated to northern Colorado four decades ago, I eventually embraced ice fishing, but still can’t make it through the winter without longing to make an occasional good, long cast and retrieve. You do have to work for open water, deep winter fishing opportunities around here, but they are possible and can be terrific. You just have to use whatever Mother Nature is willing to give you from December through March, and be prepared for an occasional skunk. We're not talking spring high country ice-off here, but "right in the heart of winter" fishing with spinning gear. We can talk later about ice fishing or fly fishing in tailwaters; we’re concentrating now on using spinning gear to fool a trout in temporarily unfrozen, still water lakes and ponds. Some of you are probably whizzes at getting warm water species to bite in the winter around here, and I dimly recall succeeding occasionally in places like Illinois and Missouri. But my favorite quarry is ...

With temperatures soaring into the 70's Sunday, the rainbows were on the hunt. Wayne Baranczyk caught this fat 19-incher on a remote, little known, seldom discussed pond near Loveland, and Bill Prater landed an obese, personal best 26-inch rainbow.