Loveland Fishing Club Blog

 https://cpw.state.co.us/aboutus/Pages/News-Release-Details.aspx?NewsID=7765 Photo by Dustin Doskocil HARTSEL, Colo.  -  Spinney Mountain State Park  will open Friday, April 23, providing anglers with one of their coveted annual spring fishing rites. Due to very low water levels, boat ramps and break water buoys can not be set and thus only hand-launched vessels will be allowed on the reservoir until further notice. The opening will officially mark the beginning of the 2021 Spinney Mountain Reservoir fishing season.    Spinney Mountain’s gates will open at 5:45 a.m. Friday. Required daily parks passes will be available from the self-serve station located at the park’s entrance. Please remember to bring correct change or a personal check for payment. The water level at the reservoir is too low to allow for safe launching from the south boat ramp, so hand-launched vessels will only be allowed to launch at the north boat ramp on opening day. The south boa...

 https://cpw.state.co.us/aboutus/Pages/News-Release-Details.aspx?NewsID=7751 A Colorful Golden Trout WALDEN, Colo. - Anglers in northern Colorado are hoping some tiny fish will mean the return of a popular catch at State Forest State Park. About 600 golden trout have been stocked into two high-elevation, backcountry lakes, in the park with the hopes that they’ll grow to catchable size in a few years. Golden trout are the state fish of California and native to the Upper Kern River drainage near Mt. Whitney and Sequoia National Park in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Central California. They were believed extinct by the mid-20th century. The species was originally described by ichthyologist David Starr Jordan in 1892. History buffs will know that Jordan was the first Chancellor of Stanford University. After the golden trout was recovered in California, it was bred in hatcheries and was stocked in lakes within the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and Utah beginning...

By Bill Prater   Lately I’ve been thinking of my 73-year-old memory as a kind of flawed time machine. Everyone but a newborn recalls life before the covid-19 pandemic. But my recollection goes way, way back, to the 1950s: a time of two-holer outhouses, radio as our only social media, and total absence of the outboards, inboards, kayaks and paddleboards that contribute to so many conflicts in 2021. You know; back to the “Good Old Days.” Back then, my only alternative to fishing from the bank was Grandpa’s homemade 8-foot pram. Trolling motor meant “sculling” with one arm, giving me a right forearm like Popeye’s. (Youngsters can Google the term)  I admit, I relate to the bold, lone paddle boarder bobbing in the wake of a wake boat in the middle of a choppy lake like Horsetooth Reservoir. And I’ve been tempted more than once to try one of those amazing new fishing kayaks I see zipping back and forth every darned place I go. But I'm too darned old to start one more hobby, and plan...

https://cpw.state.co.us/aboutus/Pages/News-Release-Details.aspx?NewsID=7748  Colorado Parks and Wildlife's Josh Nehring, senior aquatic biologist for the Southeast Region, displays a large walleye during the "March Madness" walleye spawn at Lake Pueblo State Park. Photo courtesy of Colorado Parks and Wildlife April 9, 2021 Lake Pueblo produces record walleye spawn a year after COVID-19 aborted CPW efforts PUEBLO, Colo. – While college basketball fans sit glued to their televisions each March, Colorado Parks and Wildlife plays its own version of "March Madness."  Without fanfare, betting brackets or “One Shining Moment” tributes, CPW biologists and volunteers head out at dawn, usually in freezing temperatures, to Front Range reservoirs and spend a month capturing thousands of walleye and spawning them in a quest for Colorado anglers’ precious aquatic prize.  This March, CPW collected approximately 130 million eggs – a slam dunk for anglers statewide. It’s partic...

 https://wgfd.wyo.gov/News/Spring-signals-increased-fish-stocking-efforts  CHEYENNE  -  It’s spring in Wyoming and that means the Wyoming Game and Fish Department is amping up fish stocking throughout the state.  Travis Trimble, Game and Fish assistant fish culture supervisor, said this year’s stocking plans are similar to 2020 when Game and Fish stocked 7.1 million fish in Wyoming waters. About two-thirds of those 7.1 million fish were trout and kokanee salmon raised in Wyoming’s 10 fish hatcheries and rearing stations. The rest were cool and warm-water fish brought in from out of state. Some of those species include walleye, channel catfish and crappie. The majority of fish stocked in Wyoming are in large reservoirs and other standing waters. Game and Fish is planning to stock more than 300 standing waters this year. “Stream and river stocking is limited to larger rivers where habitat and water flow are impacted by dams,” said Dave Zafft, Game and Fish fisheri...

 https://cpw.state.co.us/buyapply/Pages/Fishing.aspx#DigitalLicenseApp Resident anglers will purchase their fishing licenses the same way they always have and receive a printed physical license, but now they will also have the option to display it within the myColorado app.  The myColorado app can be downloaded from the  Apple App Store  or  Google Play . Visit  myColorado.gov  to learn more.  Check out the  myColorado FAQ document  for more information about how to access your resident fishing license within the app Wallet.  The specific fishing products anglers will see will include:  Resident annual Resident youth annual  Resident senior annual  Resident 1-day  Resident additional-day  Resident senior low-income lifetime  Resident disability lifetime   Resident VA lifetime  Resident first responder lifetime  Extra rod stamp  Moving forward, Colorado Parks and Wildli...

(reposting to fix e-mail address for Larimer County Commissioner John Kefalas) The county is unexpectedly limiting access to Horsetooth's Satanka Cove west of the boat ramp to only "paddle crafts." Here's a link to the county's press release, followed by my opinion offered to Larimer County commissioners.  https://www.larimer.org/spotlights/2021/04/01/larimer-county-natural-resources-separates-paddlecraft-use-motorized-boating   Should you wish to express your own opinion of this situation, consider offering a respectful, non-argumentative note to Larimer County Commissioners. Bill Prater jkepalas@larimer.org jshadduckmcnully@larimer.org kstephens@larimer.org With an increase in people using Larimer County reservoirs — and an “exponential” increase in those using paddle boards, canoes and kayaks at Horsetooth Reservoir — officials have decided to separate the uses at the county-operated reservoir west of Fort Collins. The Larimer County Department of Natural Resou...