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Date: October 9, 2006

Name: Joe Springer
Email: jspringer@comcast.net

Comments on this site: Fantastic property!!!! I fished from the parking area near the two ponds upstream to the property boundary in the morning and caught 6 brookies (6-10"), 3 rainbows (6-17") and 6 browns (6-9"). Had lunch and fished the beaver ponds in the afternoon and caught 12+ rainbows (12-18"), 3 brookies (6-9") and 10 browns (8-11"). The two 18" rainbows took about 10 minutes each to land. Needles to say I had a great day of fishing. I started using #18 beadhead nymphs and had only several strikes the first hour. I switched to a olive woolybugger (#12) and beadhead nymph and started to catch fish on the wollybugger. I eventually removed the beadhead nymph and tied on a #16 brown and yellow fly and started to catch rainbows on the attractor fly. The weather was great compared to Denver rain; mostly sunny and windy all afternoon. I fished the two ponds in the early evening and had several strikes before I decided to drive home and listen to the Bronco game. Fantastic property, will come back and fish the other 80% that I didn't fish!!!!

Date: MAY 27, 2007

Name: PAUL HOOVER
Email: WESTHOOVER@MSN.COM

Comments on this site: STILL CAN'T BELIEVE THAT STEVE OWNS 4 1/2 MILES OF THE FRASER ON THIS SWEET PROPERTY. HEAVEN! SEINED THE RIVER THREE TIMES AND EACH TIME CAME UP WITH A MYRIAD OF DIFFERENT BUGS -- ANNELIDS, STONES, CADDIS, BWOS, ETC. RIVER COLD, NO RISERS. ALL BROWNS ON SAN JUANS AND FBPTS. I'LL BE ON THE RIVER THIS SUMMER FOR WHAT SHOULD BE SOME SWEET HATCHES. DIDN'T FISH THE PONDS BUT LOOK FORWARD TO IT ON THE NEXT VISIT.

Date: June 6, 2007

Name: Mike Williams
Email: m_t_williams@hotmail.com

Comments on this site: Tough day on C-45 weather-wise--wind, rain, hail, and eventually snow--but managed to land 8 trout, seven browns and one rainbow, four of which were 18-20". Temperature dropped from low 60s to 35 degrees by the time I left at 5:00. On the way home it was snowing in Fraser and a blizzard on Berthoud Pass. Nothing like 26 degrees and accumulating snow in June. Water on the Fraser River was too high to fish, so I moved up to the lower boundary of Ranch Creek and fished up about 2 miles of that. Amazing that you can fish all day and still only cover about half the water, and that's still giving some pools less attention than would otherwise be the case on a smaller property. Didn't see a riser all day, and very few bugs on the water. The water looked perfectly fishable, but I think the trout were hunkered down under relatively heavy flows for this stream. After an hour with no action on a dry-dropper combo with various nymphs fished at various depths with 12"-36" of tippet, I switched to streamers and immediately caught a 20" rainbow--the only rainbow I saw all day. What followed was a pattern--fishing would go dead on that streamer or nymph, so I would change up, immediately catch a nice trout, and then fishing on that fly would go dead again. As to streamers, they were only moving on big meaty flies with eyes--nothing on buggers or small streamers. Enticed some nice browns out from under the banks--including one 20+" monster that took me for a long walk downstream. Very pretty browns in this river. By 2:30, streamer fishing appeared to be useless, so I switched to nymphs. Hooked a few on a size 12 black stone, but only smaller (12-14") browns. The stonefly stopped producing, so I switched to a size 18 blood midge. Immediately landed an acrobatic brown, then the fishing went totally dead again. The water was very cold, and the air temps were dropping rapidly. I headed up to the ponds for a half hour in the late afternoon, but by that time the snowstorm was approaching and nothing was interested in my dry-dropper combo in the ponds. I'm looking forward to returning to this property when the water is lower and a hatch is on. Promises to be something special.

Date: July 13, 2007

Name: William
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Comments on this site: Water low but fishing is good with Adams and Wulffs. Lower end was best. 12"-16" browns and rainbows with smaller brookies thrown in.

Date: August 25, 2007

Name: Ken
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Comments on this site: I parked at the 2 ponds and walked down river for about a mile to start fishing. Started fishing at 10:30 and at 11:00 am there was a great Trico hatch. Lots of rising fish in the slower water. I caught most of my fish on a Griffith Gnat in the morning. All Browns from 6" - 14" on dry's. From 12:00 - 1:30 I changed to a size 16 Para Adams and continued to catch fish in the seams and bubble lines. The river is very low, only 3.6 CFS right now. I ate lunch at 1:30 and after lunch I tried the beaver ponds. Difficult to walk around the river right now. The winds really picked up and my fly actually traveled up stream. I never caught anything in the ponds. I tried the lower section for about 30 minutes and the water was covered with weeds. I did not catch anything in the lower section.

Date: May 26, 2008

Name: Mike and Vivian Williams
Email: m_t_williams@hotmail.com

Comments on this site: I got stuck working in the morning and we didn't start fishing until 3:30 in the afternoon. We planned to fish the upper portion of the property due to runoff, but there were a lot of people up near the pond fishing, so we headed back to the lower half of the property. Flow was probably 30 cfs, about 2x optimal flow for this creek and 5 cfs more than the last time I fished it. Fishing was slow, thought sky was cloudy and I thought we might see more action on streamers. Caught two small browns between two anglers in four hours. Not good. One 10" brown fell for a black sculpin, and one 8" brown fell for a size 10 black stone. Move one large brown, maybe 17", on a large flash fry pattern. Not much of anything in the way of bugs. Couldn't even gin up a bite with the San Juan hatch.

Date: June 18, 2008

Name: William
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Comments on this site: Water was at 25-30cfs.Caught 15+ on s18 PT. Had BWO hatch and did well with s16.

Date: July 2, 2008

Name: Jason Kruse
Email: jason@coloradogroup.com

Comments on this site: Morning fishing was good, caught most fish on a prince and small red or green midge. Good mix of browns and rainbows. Most fish caught above the culvert. Afternoon was a little slow. The fish were concentrated in the deeper water. Tried dries in the afternoon, but only managed one brookie.Bring your mosquito repellant.