Loveland Fishing Club Blog

 FYI, Dan Swanson has posted the following on his Facebook page. Colorado Bass Nation is seeking volunteers (20 or more) this weekend to install habitat structures at Boyd Lake State Park in Loveland, CO. Volunteers need not be members. I believe your park pass for the day is being comped. We'll meet at 10:00am (location to follow). Please bring a screw gun (if you have one), work gloves, sunscreen and wear work clothes. Questions? Contact George Mauries, 303-819-1171, or Bill Wilson with Centennial Bass.  Boyd Habitat Project Saturday Sept 18th 10:00 am -  Bill Wilson Centennial Bass Club of Northern Colorado bassinbill@gmail.com 970-218-2895

 Long stretches of the Yampa and Colorado rivers are among the streams currently closed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife as the result of this lingering heat and drought. In its weekly fishing report, the agency noted the CPW director may "  authorize emergency closure of fishing waters in the state when it is determined that environmental conditions in these waters are such that fishing could result in unacceptable levels of fish mortality. Additionally, CPW may initiate a voluntary fishing closure where the agency asks anglers to find alternative places to fish until conditions improve. When such determination has been made, public notice will be given, including posting at the relevant water.  The criteria for any potential action may include:  Daily maximum water temperatures > 71°F  Stream flows ≤ 50% of the daily average flow  Fish condition visibly deteriorating  Daily dissolved oxygen < 6 parts per million  Natural or man-caused enviro...

 Darned if we're going to tell you about it here, though; you'll just have to ask Dennis Kelsey how he landed this fat 18-inch largemouth on a Loveland area pond on Aug. 24. I'll give you a hint:  no, ask him yourself. Or maybe Don Knudsen, who watched the fight and then took this photo.

  Those who know me well know this: For the 17 years or so I’ve been with the Loveland Fishing Club, I have been in dogged, some say mindless, pursuit of a Colorado Master Angler bluegill. They are gorgeous, tough little devils, but don’t grow well here in the land of fluctuating water levels and near-total lack of hard cover. Which perhaps explains why I and a few other lonely missionaries keep chasing a very few big ones, while others mindlessly pursue skinny but tastier walleye. My version of Don Quixote ended abruptly Wednesday morning on an unnamed, snake- and mosquito-infested pond not too far from Loveland. That’s when I (and my secret Gulp minnow) battled and subdued an obese, 10 ½ inch male that had been naively feasting on a ball of bait fish. That’s a full 5 percent over the minimum to qualify for a Colorado Master Angler patch for the species. Meanwhile, elsewhere on the pond, Wayne B muttered said something about catching a couple 4- or 5-pound largemouths that had b...

By   COLORADO PARKS & WILDLIFE   |   September 1, 2021 at 8:16 a.m. RED FEATHER LAKES, Colo. — Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials at its aquatic animal health laboratory have identified an anchor worm infestation as the cause of dead and dying fish at West and Dowdy lakes in western Larimer County. Anchor worm is a parasite that can cause severe inflammation resulting in open bleeding sores on fish. Adult females are permanently fixed to a fish, resulting in the observed sores. It can lead to stress, osmotic imbalance and to secondary infection. The free swimming immature stages of the anchor worm can feed on gill tissue, causing considerable damage that can impact respiration and osmoregulation, in addition to being an irritant. Anchor worms are not new to both West Lake and neighboring Dowdy Lake. They can become problematic to the fish populations every several years according to CPW Area Wildlife Manager Jason Surface. “We want anglers to be aware of ...