So with the warm weather this week i took a day off work Tuesday and decided to break my personal 'never fish deckers again' pledge and go down and fish deckers. I'm sure it's great, but I prefer to catch 20 cooperative trout somewhere else than struggle for a couple there...plus I just don't enjoy nymph fishing so I know deckers isn't the place for me...but it's unseasonably warm so thought I'd give it a shot with a dry and dropper. Surprisingly it was not very crowded...had plenty of water to myself above deckers bridge and I don't think I've ever been able to even fish or park there in past years. flows were high at 240 but 1/2 the river was fishable...just couldn't cross much or get to pockets on other side. I managed 2 pretty early on when it was still in the 30's and could see trout feeding in shallow riffles and it was only going to get warmer would this be the day that broke my personal deckers curse??? ahh, but after less than 2 hours the water started looking off...dirtier, higher, churned up...was i crazy? soon it was no doubt and when i got home i confirmed it...they opened the flows and it went from 240 to 360 the morning i was there, turning it dirty with debris all over the water. my day was over...could have been maybe something special, but oh well. Dumb question for anyone in the know: i understand they can change flows at any time and especially this time of year they are trying to manage the reservoirs for snow melt, but is there a reason, particularly on the most fished river in colorado, they can't just increase flows after 7 pm or something like that? then if we don't see the flow in morning before heading out it's our problem but why kill the day for hundreds of guys right at lunch when we have no chance to avoid it? i'm sure guys still caught fish after, i saw some feed, but it was not great conditions
