Just a reminder to everyone....wear sunscreen when your outside. I guess I used some horribly out of date sunscreen, and I got a horrible burn today. The sun in Colorado will quickly burn you, and it is never fun!
I decided to go and fish at Pella Crossing today due to the high flow rates of the surrounding rivers. Pella is located in Hygiene, Co, just outside of Longmont. There are six ponds that you can fish, and numerous belly boat put ins. The ponds have bluegill, crappie, perch, catfish, as well as large and small mouth bass populations. For those of you who like a real challenge there are a few schools of grass carp cruising around once and a while. These are buy far my favorite ponds to fish in the front range area. Bass are catch and release only, so you know there are some lunkers hiding around there. If you know where to look, you can find some really good size bluegill (well for Colorado anyway). It was a beautiful day outside, in the 70s I believe. The water was really clear, and you could easily sight fish from shore. I was hoping to get into some of the larger bass out there, but they wouldn't have it. They are either cruising, or holding territory for nesting. I only caught two bass, both of which were not of a size worth mentioning. I was fishing my 7'6" Kettle Creek 5wt, which allowed the bluegill fishing to actually be fun. I had the best luck with a Cockaroo fly, or an olive Sparrow in size 6. Caught probably a dozen good size gills (like the one below) and a couple dozen smaller guys. All in all it was a great day. If you have never fished Pella, you should because it is a great little set of ponds!
Nice catch!
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