Blue Mesa Ice Fishing Report: Cold weather…HOT Fishing! It has been consistently cold in the Gunnison basin, but ice progress has been slow. The Iola basin is completely capped with 6-12″ of ice! This extends West in to the canyon and then a new layer of ice that is 1-4″ and somewhat inconsistent has formed […]
Blue Mesa ice has actually gotten thicker over the last week with the recent cold snap! We now have 10-16″ of ice from the Lake City bridge to Elk Creek. Use caution around the rocky points at Elk Creek as they have thinner ice. Fishing has been fair to good depending on the day and […]
Blue Mesa Ice Fishing Report: It has been a warm Colorado fall, but we still have some safe ice on about a mile of the Blue Mesa inlet where the Gunnison River enters the reservoir. The ice is 8-10″ thick and turns to open water right around the Lake City Bridge. As I write this […]
This Blue Mesa Ice Fishing Report is brought to you by the first hand experiences of Robby Richardson, owner and guide at Sport Fish Colorado. We are finally starting to see night time temperatures that are dipping below 0, but overall it has been a warm fall/start to winter in the Gunnison Valley! Blue Mesa […]
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