FinFanatic
11-28-2001, 10:41 AM
Hello fellow fishermen!
I am heading out to Colorado for the holidays to spend some QT with my in-laws! My wife and I will be spending 5 days in Denver and 5 days in Colorado Springs.
Here is my plea for help. In the past three years I have turned two of my wife's nephews onto fishing when the visited us here in Green Bay WI. It is one of my passions to take children out fishing and get them hooked. Both of the fathers of these Nephews (one in Denver and one in the Springs) have no desire to go fishing and despite both of them being raised in the UP of MI neither of them have a clue about fishing beyond a hook, worm and bobber. My Wife and I over the past couple years through b-day and x-mas gifts have supplied both boys with some necessary tackle, and both boys would jump at the chance to go fishing with me and my Wife for an afternoon.
Problem, I am not at all familiar with the fishing in the Denver and Colorado Springs area. Thanks to the good old Internet and the Colorado DNR web site I was able to locate all the state regulations and several suggestions on "Hot Spots" in those areas.
I am looking for lakes and reservoirs in those areas with possible shore fishing (I am not planning on dragging my boat across the country for x-mas) for Trout, Walleye, Bass, Pike, Panfish what ever. Any thing within an hour drive of those two cites is preferred.
Any one out here have any suggestion or know where I may find out more info the assistance is much appreciated. Any way I can repay any one with ice fishing of open water fishing info later on I will be much obliged.
I am heading out to Colorado for the holidays to spend some QT with my in-laws! My wife and I will be spending 5 days in Denver and 5 days in Colorado Springs.
Here is my plea for help. In the past three years I have turned two of my wife's nephews onto fishing when the visited us here in Green Bay WI. It is one of my passions to take children out fishing and get them hooked. Both of the fathers of these Nephews (one in Denver and one in the Springs) have no desire to go fishing and despite both of them being raised in the UP of MI neither of them have a clue about fishing beyond a hook, worm and bobber. My Wife and I over the past couple years through b-day and x-mas gifts have supplied both boys with some necessary tackle, and both boys would jump at the chance to go fishing with me and my Wife for an afternoon.
Problem, I am not at all familiar with the fishing in the Denver and Colorado Springs area. Thanks to the good old Internet and the Colorado DNR web site I was able to locate all the state regulations and several suggestions on "Hot Spots" in those areas.
I am looking for lakes and reservoirs in those areas with possible shore fishing (I am not planning on dragging my boat across the country for x-mas) for Trout, Walleye, Bass, Pike, Panfish what ever. Any thing within an hour drive of those two cites is preferred.
Any one out here have any suggestion or know where I may find out more info the assistance is much appreciated. Any way I can repay any one with ice fishing of open water fishing info later on I will be much obliged.