Button Rock

In a word,  GO!  There are a lot of rainbows from the reservoir that have pushed up to the inlet and the stream above.  The water was stained a tea color and on the rise but the fishing was excellent so if you are lucky enough to have one of the 600 permits you should go while it is still good.  We hooked fish all day long on streamers, stoneflies, and egg patterns.  Some bigger rainbows even ate foam hoppers.  This was a numbers day for sure with over 100 fish landed between 2 anglers.  Numbers like these make a long hike both ways worth it.  A beautiful sunny day allowed us to wet wade and forget about our waders, and the hatches we saw have me thinking dry flies in lower water.  Get it while you can.

Be sure to check flows on rivers before you go as the warm sunny weather the past days has really started to crank things up.  Rivers like the Poudre have quadrupled their flows in just 2 days.  Even some tail waters may be too high or more difficult to fish.  I will update the flow links to reflect more streams on the front range as well as some tail waters that are good bets.  The South Platte river system is a good bet with all the impoundments and Cheeseman is running about 350 which is a good flow pushing lots of food to hungry fish.  Hitting Spinney or Elevenmile Res. could be a good bet as fishing at both has been hot.