Loveland Fishing Club Blog

  If you have a friend who should be part of the club, encourage them to check out the Loveland Fishing Club table at the Senior Center Open House, between noon and 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9.  The club will have handouts and members on hand to talk to visitors. You can also help by joining us; put on your LFC hat and mingle. It's a good chance to boost our numbers, down somewhat in this post-Covid time.  Here's the Chilson handout about the Open House:  Date: 12/09/2023 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.   Location: Chilson Recreation/Senior Center 700 E Fourth Street Loveland ,  Colorado  80537 Introduction: We have Something for Everyone! Come find out why the community LOVES the Chilson Recreation & Senior Center. Add to my Calendar Something for Everyone! Come find out why the community LOVES the Chilson Recreation & Senior Center. Membership discounts – save 15% on a 6 Month membership (available during the open house only). Take a tour, get information...

Now's the time to wear something festive, be nice to one another, and don't forget the (optional) Christmas Party gift exchange. There's no planned agenda, beyond a festive recollection of fish caught so far in 2023. If you want to participate in the gift exchange, wrap up something new, for around 10 bucks, and don't put your name on it.  We'll have coffee and cookies, and anything else you might want to share with the rest of the club. (I for one will never turn down a chocolate chip cookie. Or fudge.) 

  Long-time Loveland Fishing Club member Jim Roode is also an avid hunter who volunteers with Colorado Parks and Wildlife to take youngsters goose hunting from Eastern Colorado pits. The game warden who books these hunts has over-committed this fall and on Saturday, Dec. 9th has only three hunters lined up for what is usually a four youth hunt. It creates a unique opportunity. Jim says if any club member has a child or grandchild under age 18 who would like to hunt geese, to contact him as soon as possible. He can be reached at jimroode@yahoo.com or with a call to  970-667-4666. Parks and Wildlife can lend a shotgun if needed, but the youngster must have a CPW Hunter Education card.  The child's relative or mentor must accompany the child but won't be hunting.

Nov. 10, 2023: LARIMER COUNTY, Colo. – The Douglas Reservoir State Wildlife Area will be closed  temporarily until a new lease is signed between Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the property owners. Negotiations have been ongoing for months, but the renewed lease was not finalized before the previous agreement expired on October 31. Due to safety and liability concerns, CPW properties require active leases for recreation operations to resume. The SWA will reopen when the new lease is complete. (Editor's note: it's not at all clear that this means an agreement has been reached in some fashion. This is how we lost Lone Tree Reservoir a few years ago)