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Poudre River, Colorado - cpierce - 10-15-2013

There isn't much going on in this forum, so I thought I would post this report here as well as in the Colorado forum.


I got a chance to fish the Poudre River Canyon for two days this last week. What a beautiful canyon and river! Thankfully it was the middle of the week, gov shutdown of campgrounds, and late in the fall, otherwise I am afraid that this looks like a very popular place!

I forgot my camera for the first day and of course the fishing was better then. The first day I fished up in the catch and release sections, and I think the average size was a bit better in those areas. Still the paths along the river are pretty heavily beaten in. This river must get some serious attention all summer long.

The second day I fished a little lower down and still had a great day. Mostly browns with some rainbows mixed in. I only took a few pictures of some of the fish.

I wish that I could have taken some pictures of the beautiful canyon as I drove up, but it is way too narrow and twisty to use a camera and drive at the same time.

First fish of the day gets to be immortalized for his sheer exuberance and enthusiasm.

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The river is fairly large and is much faster and larger than it looks as most of my pictures were from a couple of braids where the river was split. It was also very cold water! Sorry about the water spots on some of these pictures.

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Rainbows

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And lovely browns:

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Re: [cpierce] Poudre River, Colorado - Dryrod - 10-15-2013

[#008000][size 3]Thanks for sharing your outing with us cpierce. Love the serenity of the area. Good looking catch. Which I could have been there![/size][/#008000]
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Re: [cpierce] Poudre River, Colorado - macfly55 - 10-21-2013

Great post... those are great looking fish... :-)... and like DR I am a little jealous... ok.. very jealous.. :-)
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Re: [cpierce] Poudre River, Colorado - flygoddess - 10-21-2013

Very nice girl!.
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Re: [cpierce] Poudre River, Colorado - NationalRivers - 10-25-2013

Thanks for sharing! What a nice spot, nice pictures, and good catches! [cool]
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