From: fleck@col.hp.com (Dave Fleck)
Subject: Gunnison Trip report - Colorado
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:14:56 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division


Since  Bryan  posted his note he has been asked to just post a report,
so here it is...

Gunnison River from Almont down to Just above Blue Mesa Reservoir:

A majority of the river  above  Gunnison  is priavte  property,  so we
pulled out a raft and put in at the  Almont  Camp  ground(nice  people
there).  Fishing  was  a bit  slow  at  first,  but  the  scenary  was
outstanding.  We were  using Dry  attractor  patterns  like the  Royal
Wulff, Red Humpy, and Rio Grande  King.  I finally  nailed a 13" Brown
after losing a couple others that wrapped  around rocks (kinda hard to
stop a raft  sometimes!).  Bryan  landed a  rainbow  on a Humpy  also.
Down  stream  farther  we came  through a riffle and on the other side
were a mass of Kokenee  Salmon  swimming in slack water.  We asked the
people  on  shore  if they  minded  if we  fished  and  they  said  no
problem...  nice!  I  landed a nice 17" Koke on a Hot  Pink and  White
Maribou fly weighted down.

After  lunch we ran a good class 2 rapid and the  fishing  picked up a
bit.  I hooked into a nice ~18" Rainbow.  Had him to the net twice but
we could not find a place to portage and the fish decided he wanted to
go back upstream and he got  off...(one  of those majorly  aggrevating
instances)  not 5 minutes  later I hooked into  another 18" fish which
fought real well.  Landed him this time, beautiful rainbow.  Both fish
nailed a Red  humpy.  We fished  down  farther  and ran into a pool of
Salmon again.  They were jumping  constantly but we could not get them
to attack  any flies or lures  that our third  companion  tried.  Down
near the take  out,  Beaver  Creek,  we  started  hooking  into  small
rainbows (8 - 10") on every other cast or so.  Again we were using the
Red Humpy.

All in all a great  day on the  river, we saw over a  thousand  Koke's
during the 8 hour float.  The trout were a bit slow, but worth it.

Dave
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        "The fish lept magnificently out of the water, his head and
        tail thrashing violently at the foreign substance in his mouth.
        He returned to his natural home with a lash of the tail, throwing
        water in all directions.  He dove deep this time, trying to reach
        freedom in the jagged rocks below."
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Dave Fleck                              Hewlett-Packard Co.  Colorado Springs
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