08-10-2011, 10:21 PM
The Ouray Park Canal flows directly from Cottonwood to Pelican. The 41 inch musky mentioned weighed 27 pounds and was released. There are very few musky in Pelican, but they have the potential to get huge with the all you can eat buffet in the lake. Cottonwood and Bullock reservoirs have been producing legal musky for years. The largest I know of from Cottonwood was 49 inches. Talked to a basin angler who got sawed off 3 times in one day this spring bass fishing Pelican. With stomachs full of bass and gills, it's not likely the musky are hungry for plastics. Go big and go get them now because they won't be there long.
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