Tag Archives: Georgetown Lake
Oct 20, Colors and Gang Signs
This time of year is absolute magic.
Colorado is painted with green, gold, orange, red, and purple like Skittles. Now mix in a little bit of brown the color of the trout spawning up above Georgetown Lake but brown by name only; their spots mirror the season. If you stay out of their beds, (it's mostly a non-productive spawn but nobody wants their bed tromped), you can site fish to stacks of them and bring in 10-14 beauties by throwing little nymphs and stripping them through the pack.
The fish act angry territorial. When they attack your fly they often explode out of the water as if to tell the neighboring fish, Yo - can you feel that? BAM!" And then they throw a sign with their little fins. I'm pretty sure.
I almost feel guilty pulling them away from their posturing and pontificating. Almost.
And I hear the Steelhead are full of P&V, (that stands for piss and vinegar) out of Lake Erie. Magic, I tell you.
