Chatfield Late May/Early June Update

[DavidHColorado]

Sorry for the delay, spent too much time fishing.

The live bait rigging bite is on at Chatfield, Cherry Creek, and Pueblo Reservoirs. The lakes stayed cold for an extended time allowing a few extra weeks of night trolling but once it warmed it warmed sending the water temps from 51 to 68 in a week.

This warming has scattered the fish a bit but 40-fish mornings are possible at Chatfield while large fish at Cherry Creek are patrolling the traditional lindy rig areas.

At Chatfield, most of the fish are on the north/south roadbed and are being taken by lindy rigging crawlers. Some days Gulp! alive has outfished crawlers. For the Gulp rigging a lightweight bass worm hook like the VMC WM Worm works great with Berkley Killer Crawlers or 6" nightcrawlers. For the live bait, two #8 octopus hooks just an inch apart hooked into half a crawler works best.

Jigging has also produced fish on the islands and between the pits. Most the boat on the shallow lanes in the pits and cast ahead of the vessel to get walleyes feeding before the boat spooks them. Here, quarter ounce jig heads with Berkley Gulp! minnows or half of a Zoom fluke tipped with a crawler have been producing.