Wait! I see Gail and Norm. Where's the water?

Photo by Jim Clune

Okay, looks like they're having a good time at the annual campout up Poudre Canyon.  Here Norm Englebrecht and wife Gail celebrate a successful trip to Ranger Lakes, and their 48th wedding anniversary.  Um, where are the fish? 

Club exclusive: thermocline for area lakes!

While you were out trolling in the record summer heat, drowning worms, Tom Miller was busy logging critical thermocline information for Lakes Boyd, Lonetree, Lon Hagler and Horsetooth.

The complete spreadsheets on his findings can be found on the Resources page of the club website.  Click here.

• At Boyd on July 19, Tom found a surface temperature of 77.2 degrees and a thermocline that began at 26 feet and extended to 36 feet.
• At Lonetree, on July 31, Tom recorded a surface temperature of 73.5 degrees and a thermocline that was 70.6 degrees at 30 feet dropping to 60 degrees at 50 feet.  
• At Lon Hagler on July 31, surface temperature was 75.6, and the thermocline began at 30 feet, where it was 70 degrees, dropping to 60.8 by 40 feet.
• At Horsetooth on August 2, Tom found temperature a constant 73.4 degrees F down to 24 feet.  The thermocline:  the temperature fell slowly from 72.5 degrees at 26 feet to 62 degrees at 42 feet and 60 degrees by 50 feet. 

And as you'd know if you paid attention during Tom's presentation on trolling at the July club meeting,
here are optimum temperatures for popular fish:   

CARP	84
CATFISH	82
CRAPPIE	70
WHITE BASS	70
LARGEMOUTH	70
BLUEGILL	69
SMALLMOUTH
WALLEYE	67
TROUT	61

Club goes fishing with Girl Scouts at Lon Hagler

Our annual fishing excursion to Lon Hagler, organized by the Colorado Division of Wildlife, was another big successs.  For more pictures of the July 11-12 event, click here. 

It's hot all day. Time to catfish at night!

This club is legendary for many things.  But except for the notorious Glen Elder, Kansas expedition a few years ago, and of course the Grand Lake of the Cherokees (see Jim Clune and Dottie Bethel below) catfishing just hasn't been one of them.

Tom Miller plans to change all that, with an evening outing at Jayhawker Pond, corner of 1st and Taft, this  Thursday, June 28.  Be there about dusk, bring a chair, mosquito repellent, drinks and a musical instrument if you play one.  Otherwise Tom will entertain us with a solo performances on his harmonica.

According to DOW biologist Ben Swigle, the fish feeder we installed in the pond last spring helped boost the size of Jayhawker cats.  But let's find out for ourselves.

Get up early and fish with Harry and friends

Harry Case and friends get up early on Wednesdays and bank fish the lakes and ponds around Loveland, and they're looking for a few club members to join them.

Give Harry a call or start up a conversation at the Friday breakfast at the Golden Correl.  They generally get going about 7 a.m.

Great success on annual Blue Mesa trip

Eight club members traveled to Blue Mesa for a week of fishing, and had one of the best trips to the lake ever, as shown by these photos, taken shortly before the game warden arrived and started counting.  No, honest, the kokanee were all within limits, and averaged up to 19 inches. 

Photos from 2012 Loveland Kids Fishing Derby!

George Kral took some great photos during the June 2 Derby, another great annual tradition with hundreds of happy junior anglers.  They've been posted to the Loveland Fishing Club Website Gallery in Google Picasa, and made public so everyone can view the photos as a slideshow and download a photo of their favorite fisherperson.

New fishing and stocking reports available

The Colorado Division of Wildlife has updated its reports on fishing conditions and trout stocking.  Here's the link:  http://wildlife.state.co.us/Fishing/Reports/Pages/StatewideConditions.aspxhttp://wildlife.state.co.us/Fishing/Reports/Pages/StatewideConditions.aspx

Dennis Breen and friends in Canada

Hey Mister! Lemme fish.

Photo by George Kral

Dave Harem and other club volunteers demonstrated casting techniques Wednesday, April 25, at the Lagoon near Chilson Center.  Honest, Dave reportedly did give the kid his pole back...