Fishing at Delaney Buttes

We slept in. Richard went out on the boat and fished for an hour and a half, with no success. We spent the afternoon reading and relaxing. We also went out for a short hike.

It was a stormy day, so there was lots to look at in the sky.. The radio from Laramie says that the high for tomorrow will be unseasonably cool, in the 50s.

After dinner, Richard went out on the lake again. After trying scuds and pheasant tail flies at 10 feet down without success, Richard changed to a Kastmaster spoon. He soon caught a large rainbow, who had swallowed the lure deep in his neck. Richard released it, only to see a cloud of blood, and then that fish kept coming back to the surface. Richard decided that it would die anyway, so he netted it and brought it in for dinner. We measured it at 18 inches, a big fat fish. We cut off the head and tail, and then cut what was left in half, as we figured that we could not at the whole fish in one meal.

Richard went back out, and caught another large rainbow, 16 inches, which he released. It was well dark when he came in off the lake.

Boulder to Delaney Buttes

Marianne exercised in the morning, while Richard sprayed a couple of his sculptures, and got ready fro the trip. For this trip, we are bringing the RV and the boat, a 62 feet long rig. We left Boulder midday to drive over to Delaney Buttes lakes, near Walden. The drive over was uneventful, over Berthoud Pass through Winter Park and Granby. The beetle kill is amazingly large, in some places dead trees as far as the eye can see.

The fly shop in Walden said that we need to go deep at the lake, maybe 10 to 12 feet down, with a scud or a pheasant tail. For the rivers, try a hopper and a dropper. We set up at South Delaney Buttes lake. Richard was a little under the weather, so too tired to fish in the evening. He hopes to feel better tomorrow and get in some serious fishing.