05-01-2018, 11:24 PM
I decided that there was a small window for decent weather this week. I stayed close to home and hit Scofield, I figured the ice has been off long enough for the fish to come out of hibernation.
I launched my tube on the south east side of the reservoir just after 8:00 and fished until 3:00 using a medium sinking line and various size 8 bead head soft hackles. The fishing was slow until about 10:30 when a midge hatch started coming off, after that the fishing was pretty steady the rest of the day. Most of the fish were cutthroats with a couple of brood stock rainbows thrown in. The cutthroats were all between 13" - 15" and in pretty good shape. The rainbows were 19" and, what can I say, brood stock.
The water temperature was 45-47 degrees and the visibility in the water of about 3'. The reservoir is 82% full and stable.
There were some anglers over on the walk-in-access area on the west side of the reservoir and that was the only other fishermen. There weren't any boats on the water either.
The weather went south on me around 2:30 with some light snow flurries and some wind so I packed it in. It was nice to be able to fish Scofield with out picking up a single chub.
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I launched my tube on the south east side of the reservoir just after 8:00 and fished until 3:00 using a medium sinking line and various size 8 bead head soft hackles. The fishing was slow until about 10:30 when a midge hatch started coming off, after that the fishing was pretty steady the rest of the day. Most of the fish were cutthroats with a couple of brood stock rainbows thrown in. The cutthroats were all between 13" - 15" and in pretty good shape. The rainbows were 19" and, what can I say, brood stock.
The water temperature was 45-47 degrees and the visibility in the water of about 3'. The reservoir is 82% full and stable.
There were some anglers over on the walk-in-access area on the west side of the reservoir and that was the only other fishermen. There weren't any boats on the water either.
The weather went south on me around 2:30 with some light snow flurries and some wind so I packed it in. It was nice to be able to fish Scofield with out picking up a single chub.
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