Colorado “private water” fishing

[Brett Hoskins]

Guys

I have a couple of days booked in Colorado at the end of this month on sections of streams that are “private water”.

[Tim Pommer]

Colorado subscribes to the “I own the land around the river AND the river bottom” law.

[Juan Ramirez]

Brett,

I wouldn’t say that there are always bigger fish on private water.

[Brett Hoskins]

John

Somewhere on the Platt about an hour or so from Denver the first day.

[brian dunigan]

Having fished some private water in Colorado, my biggest beef with it is that some of the private water owners feel obligated to stock the heck out of the water and pellet-feed the fish.  That takes some of the challenge out of it.  Beware of guides who deny that the fish are pellet fed but then want you to fish a brown hare’s ear that looks suspiciously like a pellet all day.  🙂

If you can get on private water that’s not “pellet pig” water, it can be a great experience.

However, I’d note that there is some spectacular public water in Colorado too.

bd

[randy hanner]

Brett, I hope that runoff has taken its course by the time you get here.

[Juan Ramirez]

Brett, I hope that runoff has taken its course by the time you get here.  I guide on the Arkansas and the South Platte.  Both rivers are running high and are way unfishable as we speak.

Randy,

I don’t know about the S. Platte being unfishable.

[randy hanner]

Where I guide on the Platte it is unfishable right now.

[Brett Hoskins]

Guys

So its wind on the coast all year to blow out my trips.

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