Chad Pettrone

Saturday 5/18 Middle Boulder Creek

• By Chad Pettrone
• 20 May, 2013
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This father -daughter duo from Midwest wanted the rocky mountain experience as it was both their first time catching trout in Colorado.  We decided to stick with the Boulder Creek watershed and work our way up Boulder Creek from Downtown Boulder up to Rogers Park.  Rogers Park was a project that I helped to raise grant and private money in excess of $250,000 to restore and enhance a small degraded section of the watershed by serving as a board member with the Boulder Flycasters.

Lisa’s first fish on a fly rod. Go Cubs Go!

This is the first one Dan got into his hands, but right before this he brought one of the biggest brown trout I may have ever seen on boulder creek to our shoe laces, when it popped off the hook to hopefully be seen again another day.

Moving on up in altitude to better clarity water. Good teamwork as dad puts a net on his little girls catch.

Hey Hey what do you say, Lisa caught another fish today! Go Cubs Go!

Overall we had a good day of fishing, we easily broke into a double digit day. The lower muddy waters gave us a challenge as we were skunked on our first spot. It wasn’t until we started to move higher in elevation, for better clarity, that we started catching fish.  The entire day was a bit of a challenge to find the slower water but once we did, it was almost a guarantee that a fish would be hooked there.  San juan worm was a good choice for this overcast spring-like day. Flows on Boulder Creek were around 370 cfs in town…which most people would think to be unfishable, not this guy’d. As we moved up closer to Nederland, flows were likely in the 250 range.  Flows the night before were at 150 cfs, so it was an unexpected sight for me to see chocolate milk at my first spot for the day. The great thing about Colorado rivers, where there is water, there are fish.