Fall is Sneaky!

Well as I write this post, the sun in now shining on my apartment window.  This morning the case was the same when we rolled out to the Dream Stream.  However, after a few hours a nice front blew in and brought with it cold temps, wind, and a rain, snow mix.  This is the second front we have had move through in the last week and I was hoping that more fish would respond by moving out of the lake.  Unfortuneatly, the opposite seems to have happened.  While we are still catching some great fish, we are having to walk a pretty good distance to find them.  The fish are not in the basic runs and unless you are sight fishing you are going to experience a day of catching a lot of 3 inch babies.  That being said, if you deliver a quality presentation to a sighted fish, they tend to eat fairly well.  Also, everyone is wondering if the Browns have shown up yet or what the situation is.  They have not even begun to show up.  There are a few big fish in the river but as far as a spawning run is concerned it is still a little ways off.  Anyways, other than the Dream, flows have been dropped at Deckers and I have had mixed reports of great to poor fishing.  Personally, I thought the fishing has been outstanding, with Brown trout starting to spawn in some locations, and the rest of the fish eating very well.  Overall, fall is on the way.  Each day more and more trees begins to change colors, however, fall fishing is still a litte ways away.  Below are a few pictures of some great fish we caught on both the South Platte River and some private High Mountain Lakes.