Loveland Fishing Club Blog

By Bill Prater This is one of those unlikely stories that sounds an awful lot like the usual fishy stuff you hear at Friday breakfasts with the Loveland Fishing Club. Bear with me. I have a witness. So there we were on Tuesday, this witness and I, at a high country place I try to be every spring at ice out. You know, another situation the lovely Linda Lee wishes the fishing club would avoid, bobbing around like old water-logged corks in our Fat Cat belly boats, fishing a lake notorious for scary weather and big fish. I was fishing of course with Club Vice President Darryl Knight, an Alabama native who’d relocated to Colorado by way of Florida. We were on the prowl for trout that, a few days earlier, had been exiled under several feet of North Park ice. And if you ignore the cold, and the blustery winds, and those dark storm clouds to the north, we were doing pretty well. No hail, and in a couple of hours several gullible fish had been brought to net, admired, and freed to be caught ano...

  Editor’s note: The club has a number of new members this spring, who can be identified by their naivete and clean new Fishing Club caps. The following, an update to an article first posted a couple years ago, is intended as a sort of guide to the club for members new to the club and others who may be forgetful. Like a gift fish, give this advice the sniff test before consuming.     By Bill Prater      Following is pretty much all I can think to tell you about how to become a thriving member of the Loveland Fishing Club. It also describes some specific fishing preferences of a few long-time (and reasonably successful ) members that you should get to know.       I’m often asked, in front of witnesses, about specifically where to go fishing around northern Colorado, and how to catch fish when you get there. I hesitate to respond with the absolute truth.     That truth is, our public waters tend to run on the small ...