Blue Mesa Reservoir Fishing Report: Blue Mesa Reservoir hit its lowest elevation last fall at 92′ low since filling in the early 60’s. It has risen quite a bit since then and is currently 56′ low. Unless we get record rains, this will be the highest it gets this year as it has peaked and […]
Blue Mesa Reservoir Fishing Report: Blue Mesa Reservoir has risen about 11′ since ice-off in mid April. As of right now, the lake elevation is expected to come up 28′ from current levels and either hold steady or drop about 12′ by December of this year. The Bureau of Reclamation is currently saying that they […]
Blue Mesa Reservoir Fishing Report: Blue Mesa Reservoir is slowly starting to rise as run-off gets going. As of right now, the lake elevation is expected to come up 20′ from current levels. The trout tournament was canceled hours after my last fishing report. It’s not looking like either marina will open this season, but […]
Blue Mesa Opens to Boating April 15th! Many of the lower elevation lakes have had open water for weeks, but we will finally have a boating option in the mountains when Blue Mesa’s Elk Creek ramp opens this Friday, April 15th from 7-4:30! Blue Mesa is currently about 83′ low and at this point in […]
Blue Mesa Fishing Report: Summer Salmon fishing is here! It’s starting to feel like summer with daytime temps in the mid 80’s to low 90’s recently and the kokanee salmon and trout fishing have been getting hot as well! Salmon have been showing up across the in better numbers than last year. There seems to […]
Blue Mesa Fishing Report April 23, 2021 The water level has been slowly dropping for the last week as we hope to squeeze some snow out of these last few storms! The first week of fishing has not disappointed as we have been catching all species, seen some encouraging salmon schools, had some incredible trout […]
Blue Mesa Fishing Report The lake is almost completely ice free! The Elk Creek and Lake Fork boat ramps open on April 16 and have hours of 6 am to 8 pm! This is a great improvement from years past! The Marinas are still closed. We will update the fishing once we spend some time […]
Blue Mesa Fishing Report: the lake is open to boating and Gunnison County opens to everyone May 27! The fishing on Blue Mesa has been excellent for all species! We are still seeing some good casting opportunities for rainbow and brown trout, excellent trolling for rainbow trout with plenty of salmon action mixed in (they […]
Blue Mesa to open to boating May 15! Blue Mesa iced off in mid-April but due to COVID-19, the lake opening to boating has been delayed. A lot of people are asking if lake is open to everyone or Gunnison County residents only when it opens on May 15. Nobody seems to have a hard […]
Blue Mesa Fishing Report: As of 4-14-20, the lake is just about 100% open water! Unfortunately, the boat ramps are not open and on top of that, the lake is closed to ANY kind of boating or watercrafts! This is in conjunction with the current County Health Ordinance/shelter in place order for Gunnison County that […]
