11-11-2004, 10:26 PM
I haven't fished Spinney, but I think that is the only place really harmed by pike in this state. Those fish should have been salvaged and placed in other pike lakes. I hate the CDOW so much it's not funny. What they and the USFWS do to the Yampa River is inexcusable and they should be beaten with clubs for it. They have got to reinstate bag limits for pike and manage some lakes for pike rather than all for trout. It pisses me off so much I'd like to see a lynch mob assemble sometimes. Spinney sounds awesome, but the Glenwood section of the Colorado and the Gunnison Gorge have it beat. Too bad in the gunny gorge you have to wade through tons of 12 - 20" dink browns when it used to be mostly 20 - 30" rainbows before WD hit it hard. Now you will catch 20 browns to every rainbow. Though the browns can get big too, have seen ten plus pounders every trip, the rainbows average a solid 3 - 12 pounds with bigger ones possible. Not a great fly fishing river in the canyon because the holes are so deep, but the most awesome spinner river around. However the shallow pocket water below the canyon is great for fly fishing. Big fish are there too, just more smaller ones. It's also time that the CDOW and Aurora were defeated and ice fishing was allowed on spinney. All one would have to do would be to circulate a petition to place the measure on the ballot. Once passed, neither the CDOW or Aurora could do anything about it.
Tyler
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Tyler
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