Granby

[John19]

We are planning on going to Granby over the Labor day weekend, and thought I'd get a head start on some info. Never fished it by boat,(only on the hard water), so any suggestions would greatly be appreciated. has anyone fished here recently??? Any current reports?? Do most people troll or jig? Will the fish be pretty deep, or skathered through different depts? I'm assuming the usuall presentations will work, along with a big slab of sucker meat. Also, what's the water temp like??? Kids might like to do alittle tubing in the middle of the day, but isn't the water pretty cold? Like I said, I've only been there in the winter.
Thanks in advance,
John

[lucky7]

John:

Was watching a cable channel tonight and they looked to be fishiing close to shore from there boats in and not very far down with the tube jigs we use in the winter tipped with sucker meet. I do not know Grandby well enough to know where they were. Good luck! By the way I bought a boat and took it out on Pueblo Sunday. Just boated...no fishing.

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lucky7

[John19]

Wow, there really IS someone still out there! How's it going Lucky? How's the new boat treating ya? Fishing has definately slowed down, since we've been back at school for 3 weeks now. This is the 2nd week with kids. Hurray for CSAP. Coaching 8th grade football has been pretty fun, we should have a decent season. Had an excellent summer of fishing and playing, but fishing has pretty much been relagated to weekends, although we did find a nice little crappie hole not to far away, so we hit that every now and then in the evenings.
Have a good one!
John

[lucky7]

John:

Good to here from you. Glad to hear you got some R and R over the summer. I am gonna try and get the boat out one more time this summer. It's pretty fun but I'm still getting comfortable with it at this point. We had pretty good summer but have been back at it for three weeks like you guys. My wife is adjusting to being a full time teacher for the first time since 1992. Hope you and yours are well.

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lucky7

[EricCO]

I was up there a week or so ago and we did pretty well with copper spoons on leadcore about 7 or 8 colors back.

Biggest and only one I caught on the downrigger was with a big yellow dodger in front of a 3" white squid tipped with sucker meat. It only ran about 3 lbs., but was the biggest mac I've caught from granby yet.

[John19]

Eric, How deep were you fishing & were they picking it up right off the bottom, or were they suspended?
John

[EricCO]

They were coming up off the bottom to get it. The fish seemed to be scattered in the water column, so maybe the active ones were already up and looking for something to eat?

[EricCO]

Woops, forgot about the depth. We caught them in 50 feet - 80 feet of water.

[John19]

Fished Granby on monday. didn't take the boat since the weather was supposed to be lousy,(glad I didn't), but I did take my belly boat. Caught 2 lakers, 24 and 23 inches. They were both big and fat! white tube jig with sucker meat did the trick, some things never change. About 40 - 50ft down, right off the bottom. They both spun me around pretty good. Fished between 9-11:30 a.m. Had probably 3 other hits, and lost one other.All in all had fun, wish I could of fished alittle more.
John

[lucky7]

John:

I am hoping to hit Grandby in early October...For our fall break. Do you guys have a fall break? Would love know some spots ou recommend and lure/setup etc. Thanks!

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lucky7

[John19]

Man that Laker tasted good!!!!! We smoked it, and it was awsome. That's the kind of Big "Mac" I should eat more of.