UTERJanuary
Tailwater midges and ice fishing
Dream Stream midges; ice for trout and perch.
The Front Range to the Western Slope
Colorado freshwater fishing
What's biting in Colorado freshwater in October: largemouth bass, smallmouth bass and black crappie at their peak, with bluegill, channel catfish and brown bullhead around too. Fish Scouter's season calendar follows 19 fish here month by month, from South Platte River to Pueblo Reservoir.
Fall browns run
Gold-medal trout rivers — the South Platte, the Arkansas, the Gunnison, the Frying Pan — high mountain lakes, big reservoirs for lake trout and kokanee, and Front Range plains reservoirs for walleye and wipers.
South Platte RiverArkansas RiverBlue Mesa ReservoirGunnison RiverLake GranbyPueblo Reservoir
Updated
Now · October
Fall browns run
Streamers for spawning browns.
Rainbow troutBrown troutCutthroat troutLake trout (mackinaw, togue)Kokanee salmonWalleye
This month here
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Largemouth bass
Smallmouth bass
Black crappie (speck)
Yellow perch
Walleye
Northern pike
White bass
Hybrid striped bass (sunshine)
Rainbow trout
Brown trout
Spawning browns up from the reservoirs — Dream Stream on the South Platte
Brook trout
Cutthroat trout
Lake trout (mackinaw, togue)
Kokanee salmon
Bluegill
Channel catfish
Brown bullhead
Arctic grayling
Common carp
The water
Structure that matters
LakeReservoirRiverCreek / streamPond / pitDock / pilingsBridgeBoat ramp
Month by month
What's happening, and what to throwFebruary
Ice fishing peaks
Lakers through the ice on Granby.
March
Pre-runoff trout
BWOs on the Arkansas.
April
Walleye on the Front Range rock; caddis on the Arkansas
Mother's Day caddis hatch.
May
Runoff starts; ice-off lakers
Blue Mesa lakers shallow.
June
Runoff fades; green drakes
Stoneflies on the Colorado.
July
High country and kokanee
Hike to the alpine lakes.
August
Hoppers and high lakes
Terrestrials on the Gunnison.
September
Best month in the Rockies
Kokanee turn red.
October · now
Fall browns run
Streamers for spawning browns.
November
Brown trout spawn
Leave the redds.
December
Tailwater winter
Midges below the dams.
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