Colorado Fishing Forum on Fish Explorer - Lake trout in the BLUE!!!!

Reply by: ObsessedFisherman

Posted: 6/11/2012 11:10:05 AM Points: 2883

well they are in green mountain so they are free to swim all the way up the river and it seems to happen for sure

pretty cool to catch a laker in the river caught a few back when I fished the Blue a bunch

Reply by: Mr.Pink Posted: 6/11/2012 11:20:42 AM Points: 132

I've never caught one there, but I know people who have caught plenty. I think 16" is on the big side for the river, but I could be wrong.

Reply by: skiman

Posted: 6/11/2012 11:21:37 AM Points: 547

J-FISHER...
Not meaning any disrespect...but are you certain it was a lake trout and not a splake? Seems unlikely to me a laker would swim a river...habitat is usually a lake and deep. Anyone else want to weigh in on this?
Good Fishing!
Ski

Reply by: Mr.Pink Posted: 6/11/2012 11:30:22 AM Points: 132

They're definitely there. Chad caught one on camera on an episode of Fishful Thinker. You're right...not optimal habitat, and I don't think you're going to catch one of any real size in the river.

Reply by: ObsessedFisherman

Posted: 6/11/2012 11:50:20 AM Points: 2883

I have caught a few as well hopefully i can find a picture was many years ago so may have been film but i will scan.

why wouldnt a laker swim up river?? sure they have migrated lake to lake where they can through a river right???? Adventurist laker LOL

Reply by: Fishful Thinker

Posted: 6/11/2012 12:02:52 PM Points: 4381

Lakers are in there...as MrPink said, we actually caught two of them in about two hours of fishing right in Silverthorne. Fun catch! CL

Reply by: Vitesse304 Posted: 6/11/2012 12:06:06 PM Points: 538

They are in there...either they are swimming upstream, or flushed through the dam, they are there.

I've even caught a laker on the Blue below GM...a far ways downstream too, closer to Gore Canyon.

Crazy where some fish can end up!

Reply by: CoTroutSlayer Posted: 6/14/2012 11:58:41 AM Points: 80

Here is one I caught in the cable hole.

Reply by: J-FISHER Posted: 6/17/2012 7:21:23 PM Points: 20

Must be moving up because of the low levels and lack of food in the Res.

Reply by: hotrox54 Posted: 6/19/2012 9:30:05 PM Points: 15

Many years ago fishing at Twin Lakes we were hitting 14-16 inch lakers in the river. Water was rushing out due to runoff on theinlet. Figured they had been washed downstream. Not a lot of fight in them. Actually caught a 4 inch rainbow that had more fight.

Reply by: pug Posted: 6/19/2012 9:52:13 PM Points: 197

That is a splake. The way it is possible to tell is the tail the splake have a more forked tail. I is easy to confuse the two because splake are a cross between brookies and lake trout.

Reply by: IceFishingFool

Posted: 6/19/2012 10:33:18 PM Points: 4733

Another place that I have caught a Lake trout was below. down stream from Lake San Cristobal, As the lake fork runs into Blue Mesa could have come up from Blue Mesa or out of San Cristobal, A surprise but it happens. It was about a 15 inch one.

Reply by: fishinyota Posted: 6/20/2012 7:52:33 AM Points: 0

Pug...the EXACT opposite of what you said is true...splake have a more square tail than a lake trout. It's simple genetics...lakers have a very forked tail, brookies have a square tail. Since the splake is a cross, its tail is in the middle.

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