Loveland Fishing Club Blog

Waiting for the hordes:  The club's fishing booth at Loveland's Harvest Festival drew hundreds of little costumed anglers, "fishing" for prizes.   Photo by George Kral. 

Okay, posted a little late:  Club Secretary Karol Stroschein got us a great cake to help commemorate LFC's 10th anniversary at the October general meeting.  The upcoming banquet in January will mark the club's official first annual gathering.   

Nine club members took advantage of a day of skeet shooting at Colorado Youth Outdoors' Swift Ponds, and survived to fish again.

Per his invitation at the September club meeting, Leland Haskell has some restored cars "that most folks have never heard of before," and he's inviting club members to have a look at 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 30.  The address is 3840 S. Garfield Ave., Loveland; phone  970-593-2923 . Directions:  287 South, turn west onto 42nd St SE (County Road 14). Take first right to S Garfield. 

Front Range Anglers has compiled a list of recommended fly fishing waters reasonably close to home, while we're waiting for Front Range flooding to subside.  Here's the link. Front Range Anglers is a Boulder-based fly fishing store and guide service.  Their choice for fishable waters within a 3-hour radius of Boulder:  the Blue, Fraser, Williams Fork, South St. Vrain and the South Platte Rivers.   # # #

I for one was disheartened by an aerial video of our Bellevule Watson hatchery at under water last week, but lo and behold!  the hatchery "did survive and has quite a few fish left," reports Clayton Brossart, Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife District Wildlife Manager.  It's good news for flood-weary fishermen for the fall - and holding promise for a reasonable winter ice fishing season. "They've been trying to empty the hatchery by stocking out ahead of schedule," Clayton says.  "They stocked Boyd, Flatiron and Lon Hagler this week, so the fishing should be good as the water clears up." Tom Miller also reports that Flatiron and Pinewood have gotten fish since the flood. He also swears he saw trout trying to jump back into the Boyd outlet pipe from Horseshoe Lake.  See his photo below.  Water from Horseshoe pours into a rapidly filling Boyd Sept. 20, as a couple of anglers try their luck at the Marina Inlet. 

We'll be updating you as circumstances dictate on what's known about area fishing and the outdoors in general.  Horsetooth, Boyd, Carter and others are open, but there are longer, evolving lists of what's closed. The Boulder Canyon and Canyon Lakes ranger districts of the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests are also closed temporarily, due to saturated soils and the need to facility emergency response. Even though the water's pretty muddy and getting worse, I'd recommend the Marina and Heinrici inlets at Boyd, where water coming from Horseshoe is creating a current that attracts predator fish. Let us know how you're doing there or elsewhere.  Any word on conditions at Lon Hagler, Boedecker, Lonetree or elsewhere?  Know they're full and muddy; any fish biting?  I'll be looking for links to agencies providing reports on other areas.  If you want to chime in on others, send me a note.  My thanks to club friend Dennis Smith, author of the Home Waters...