Colorado Fish Pictures!!!

[MN BassFisher]

I know what this thread needs, a place to post your pictures! Everyone likes sharing their photo's so lets see 'em! I have only been in the state for 5 weeks but I have a few photos. Let's see your much larger fish than mine!

I'll kick it off with a nice colored Rainbow from my first Ice outing here. This day I got about 15 stockers and those were the first trout I ever pulled through the ice.

[MN BassFisher]

I went up to Green Mountain Reservoir after being here for a few weeks with the hopes of tangling with my first Lake Trout. I wound up getting around 10 of the popular size in that lake - 16"-20" but I had a blast.

[MN BassFisher]

This was my biggest Laker of the Green Mountain outing. They were active and fun fish to catch out of 80fow!!!

[MN BassFisher]

There were a few Rainbow's mixed in with the schools of Lakers suspended over 80fow.

[MN Mike]

Good stuff..... Keep the pics coming!

Mike

[MN BassFisher]

Personal Best Rainbow so far at 18" taken from Eleven Mile. I look to top that mark very soon.

[MN BassFisher]

This is still taken from the video of me catching my PB Rainbow Trout

[Cthulhu]

Nice reports! Keep 'em coming. I haven't seen Green Moutain in years, I lived nearby (Kremmling) about 4 years back. Didn't do much ice fishing when I lived there, didn't have much gear (most important, no flasher). Did a fair bit of open water fishing.

[MN BassFisher]

Fishing Green Mountain for Lakers and not having a flasher would be very difficult!!! It'd be a total guessing game. I plan to get out a time or two this weekend so I will be following up with a report and pictures/videos. Do you still live in CO?

[Cthulhu]

Shockingly I caught fish without a flasher at Green! That was just out of college and affording a flasher seemed impossible and I didn't know what I was missing! Now I have one and would struggle to go ice fishing without it.

I live in Northern WI now, lived in WI/MN most my life. Lived in Colorado for 3 years, one in Kremmling and two out in almost-Nebraska. I fished a motley selection of waters - mostly westslope rivers, cutties in RMNP, and the ditches and creeks on the far east plains.

[MN BassFisher]

Oh okay, I was born and raised in the NE Suburbs of the Twin Cities of MN. I have a family cabin in Western Wisconsin and I just moved out to CO Springs not even 2 months ago. It's been a fun change with the milder winters, reservoirs instead of lakes, trout instead of panfish, and most importantly the mountains and the scenery they bring to every situation. Agreed, that now that I have a flasher - I'll never be able to fish without one. They change the game. I've just purchased a few fly rods and reels and can't wait to give that a try this March! Keep an eye on this page because I'll be updating it with my outings and hopefully some nice pictures.

[MN BassFisher]

I'm still editing my video from Saturday Morning's Brookie fest but my friend made the hike with me on that day and on her way back she stopped out on the ice for a bit before making the descent. I gave her my flasher as well as a rod and she caught her first Brook trout! She also caught the only Brown trout of the day (she has now caught all three species: Rainbow, Brook, and Brown before I did and she's only been out 3 times with me! )

[monstermoose78]

very nice colors on that brookie. Looks like you are having a ball on there with the trout.

[masoct3]

NICE ONE! I love Rainbows.

[MN BassFisher]

So I posted this photo on a Colorado fish forum that I find helpful, asking if this was a Brown trout (since I know they aren't in the water I fished) and I've received double digit responses saying its a Tiger trout. Two of them from local guides and one of them who guides the same lake and is kind of the Tiger pro here in CO. I thought it was weird since it doesn't look like any of the other Tigers I've seen but a fisheries guy offered me this explanation and it was good to know.

"I believe the reason that tiger doesn't look "normal" is because it is a triploid version. Triploid tigers have a much higher survival rate in hatcheries and are thus cheaper to raise. However, because they are triploid, they retain an extra set of chromosones from their brown trout mother.In essence, this makes the fish 2/3 brown trout and only 1/3 brook trout, instead of the usual 50:50 split. The result is a less attractive fish, which is unfortunate, because they are easier to raise and could be stocked in greater numbers."

[Cthulhu]

Cool fish! No question that it is a Tiger. It doesn't look like any other trout except a Brown Trout, though it still looks off for that - which makes sense given that it is at least 50% brown (or in this case most likely 66% brown). Still blows me away that this hybrid can (rarely) happen naturally - doesn't seem like a Trout and Char should be able to successfully reproduce, totally different genus.

[MN BassFisher]

Yeah it was helpful getting that knowledge because their isn't any brown's in that water so I was pretty confused. I know the CO DOW, several years ago, stocked Tigers in waters that had stunted and over populated Brook trout populations. From the sounds of it they are only in a handful of lakes out here though. Now I have to catch one because that was my friend Kerri's trout pictured, she has only caught 4-5 trout while being out here and one was a Tiger - go figure! I want to catch one on a fly!

[my4x4yj]

It's the womans touch, take one with you, especially a novice and whe will do it everytime. Same happenned to me with my wife.

[my4x4yj]

I didn't get to complete my post, fat fingers hit the wrong button. Was going to say that your posts make me homesick. I grew up at Rifle, actually 20 miles out of town, and fished nearly everyday. Never ice fished though as the streams are spring fed and didn't freeze. Just strapped on a pair of snow shoes. Met my wife 34 years ago in school and she then dragged me here to her home state 20 years ago and now can only visit my home occasionally.

[MN BassFisher]

Haha sorry for that. Don't worry come summer I'll miss Minnesota and all the options of lakes to fish! Yeah, ice fishing doesn't seem all that popular out here which is fine by me! I've just purchased a few fly rods and I'm excited to get out on the rivers around here.

[MN BassFisher]

My cousin came out this past weekend and he had never caught a Trout before so we headed to Eleven Mile Canyon and did some light action spin fishing. It was my first time there but wow was it a gorgeous place to wet a line! This is a picture of my Cousin and his first Brown Trout.

[MN BassFisher]

Here is his last Brown of the day (and his PB, it went between 13-14"), we caught most of ours in the 4 limit section but we left everything swim. There are plenty of put and take lakes nearby my house where I could go to get a limit for the table.

[MN BassFisher]

Me and the only Rainbow of that outing

[my4x4yj]

I guess I'm doing something wrong, can't get photo to attatch to the post, I thought I followed the instructions correctly.

[MN BassFisher]

If you just click on the icon which looks like a Box with a Blue Arrow next to it. Then click 'Choose File' and find the file on your computer that you want to upload, then click 'Add File' and 'Done Adding Files' and it should work!