Saturday, April 06, 2013

Flow: 74
Water Temp: 50-57
Pueblo can take pride today in our river, our community and in a hard days work. The Southern Colorado Greenback chapter of Trout Unlimited (Pueblo) and the Cheyenne Mountain TU chapter partnered with Pete Gallagher of Fin-Up Habitat Consultants and Doug Krieger from CPW to restore the river to a natural state. It’s an inspiring thing to see how hard folks work when they’re doing something they believe in. We had 48 volunteers today and each and every one of them bust their tail digging, planting and removing any marking that a massive restoration project just happened. I am so proud and amazed of the contribution you all made. At the same time everyone had fun and the Cheyenne Mountain chapter provided us with a spectacular feast. I am honored to be president of this organization giving back to this river that has given us so much.

 We saw the first caddis of the season forbearing the end of the spawn. The trout that are still on their beds are tired and weak. Give them leave as they’ve had a long spawn. Fish a tapered rig as in previous posts and cover lots of water.

Thank you Pueblo from the bottom of our hearts,

Ben and the trout.