Blue Mesa Ice Fishing Report/Conditions: progress is being made! Blue Mesa Reservoir, near Gunnison Colorado, has had good ice from about the Iola boat ramp to just before the middle bridge for several weeks now. Ice thickness is 6-16″ with 5-8″ of snow on top. This section should be good for snowmobiles and fourwheelers. Most […]
Blue Mesa Ice Fishing Report: there is some fish-able ice! The east end of Blue Mesa reservoir has some fishable ice. Willow Creek island (sometimes island) east has 4+” and the fishing has been good! Lots of trout action and a few perch have been showing up. More pictures and info to come as the […]
Blue Mesa Ice and Boat Ramp Report for November 14, 2022 We are already starting to see sections of skim ice floating around Iola basin! Night time temps have been in the single digits to teens lately which should keep the water temps dropping. The Elk Creek boat ramp is the only ramp still open […]
Blue Mesa Ice Fishing Report: The entire lake has been capped for about a week now. The ice from middle bridge to the dam is running 6-7″ but there are some spots to watch out for, so use caution! Everything east of middle bridge has 10″+ of ice with 3″ inches of snow on top. […]
Blue Mesa Family Ice Fishing Tournament, March 6, 2021! It took a while, but we finally have approval for the annual First Baptist Family ice fishing tournament! We have lots of great prizes pouring in daily! To meet Park Service and Gunnison County requirements, contestants will be broken into 4 flights under 50 people. To […]
Blue Mesa Ice Fishing Report: Good ice and great fishing! Blue Mesa reservoir near Gunnison and Crested Butte, Colorado has 8-20″ of ice across the entire reservoir with 4-6″ inches of snow on top. The ice is holding up well due to the insulation of the snow and the cold Gunnison Valley nights. The days […]
Blue Mesa Ice Fishing Report: the lake is capped; use caution! Blue Mesa reservoir is completely capped! It froze in several phases and ice thickness varies so use extreme caution! There are some large pressure ridges in Cebolla, around Middle Bridge, West Elk, Soap Creek, and Sapinero so use caution! From the Narrows/Elk Creek eastward […]
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 Fishing Report: A little ice and a lot of open water! Blue Mesa reservoir is slowly but surely building ice. The lake is down about 55′ so the lake looks a little different heading in to this ice season. The Gunnison River inlet starts about 1000 yards west of the Lake City […]
Blue Mesa Ice Fishing Report: slowly but surely more ice is forming! Blue Mesa reservoir is about 80% capped! The original ice cap stretched from the Gunnison River inlet to a little west of Elk Creek boat ramp. Now we have ice continuing from Elk Creek boat ramp west to the Dillon Pinnacles where it […]
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