{"id":1306,"date":"2022-04-13T13:40:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T19:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemesafishing.com\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2022-04-13T13:40:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T19:40:22","slug":"blue-mesa-opens-to-boating-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemesafishing.com\/blue-mesa-opens-to-boating-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Mesa Opens to Boating soon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Blue Mesa Opens to Boating April 15th!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s Elk Creek ramp opens this Friday, April 15th from 7-4:30!\u00a0 Blue Mesa is currently about 83&#8242; low and at this point in time, with 99% snowpack,\u00a0anticipated to come up 30 vertical feet over the summer.\u00a0 How long it will hold at that elevation is unknown at this point.\u00a0 Lake Powell is in dire straights and will be wanting another emergency release from Blue Mesa and Flaming Gorge most likely.\u00a0 Whether or not this will happen remains to be decided.\u00a0\u00a0Lake Fork boat ramp is useable around the elevation of 7448&#8242; so the lake needs to rise at least 12&#8242; for this to be a reality.\u00a0 The Rotary Club trout tournament is scheduled for May 7 and 8 and appears to be happening.\u00a0\u00a0Keep praying for some late-season snow and then lots of rain this summer!<\/p>\n<p>Ice-off fishing offers some of the best fishing opportunities of the year!\u00a0 We will be offering trout casting trips that yield 15-40+ fish days and some really nice rainbow and brown trout!\u00a0 These trips are action-packed!\u00a0 This is also THE BEST time of year to chase trophy lake trout out of the boat!\u00a0 Some of the biggest lake trout in Blue Mesa will be looking to recoup calories lost over the winter!\u00a0 Some days we will mix it up and do a combination of epic trout casting and then chase a trophy lake trout for the last part of the day.\u00a0 If you want to get in on this awesome action, please call or text me today!\u00a0 (970) 784-6555<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Elk Creek ramp opens this Friday, April 15th from 7-4:30!\u00a0 Blue Mesa is currently about 83&#8242; low and at this point in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluemesafishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluemesafishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluemesafishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluemesafishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluemesafishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bluemesafishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"https:\/\/bluemesafishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluemesafishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluemesafishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluemesafishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluemesafishing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}