Hitting the colorado tomorrow

[TroutFishingBear]

Your right about small tributaries sometimes having big fish, especially if the tributary has some big holes and a good forage base. I remember a small creek I used to fish when I was little that was near gateway, colorado and it was maybe only 20-30 cfs but we used to get a lot of 2 and 3 lb. browns and rainbows out of there. A story my dad once told me was when I was like 4 years old I was sitting on a big rock above a big hole in the crick flipping a grasshopper and I hooked and faught a 10 lb. brown trout and he was holding on to me by my legs because I was almost going in the water since I was so small[shocked]

If you have only fished the colorado river around state bridge and kemp breeze lease, you have been missing out! The fish there are decent, 12-14" usually with a few nicer ones, but the real good fish don't get very numerous until the roaring fork dumps in and you can fish the massive holes around south canyon and canyon creek. These trout, mostly rainbows, feed on suckers and average an easy 3 lbs. I wouldn't suggest flyfishing in this area: too deep, and the big fish don't eat flies very much. I use a nightcrawler and bounce it with the current, and in a rockier, extremely powerful hole a big 4" curly tail with 1/4 oz. jig head can be the ticket. I bet some of those jigs you use at spinney would work really well[]
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