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 […]
Blue Mesa Ice Fishing Report: Last week’s cold temperatures made some new ice! Mid week we saw the narrows cap and then a few days later all of Iola capped! Currently, Blue Mesa is capped from the Gunnison River all the way to a little west of the Elk Creek boat ramp. Ice thickness varies […]
Blue Mesa Ice Fishing Report: The ice is in no hurry to lock the lake in, but we still have good ice from the Gunnison River inlet to about 400 yards west of the hwy 149 bridge. Ice is running 4-8″ with a few inches of snow on top. Fishing has been good for rainbow […]
Blue Mesa Ice Fishing Report: The ice at the Gunnison River inlet area is running 3-5″ up to about the Lake City Bridge. A newly frozen layer of ice extends west of the Lake City Bridge several hundred yards, but it is still thin. Fishing on the older ice has been fair to good most […]
We’ve seen a roller coaster of weather patterns this fall, which has resulted in Blue Mesa, starting to cap and then thawing back out and now starting to cap again. The Gunnison River inlet to Blue Mesa reservoir has a few miles of ice that just formed on 11/25/19. Today is very windy so we […]
Blue Mesa Ice Fishing Report: Blue Mesa and the Gunnison valley have been consistently into the -10 to -20 range for lows over the last week! We have seen Cebolla basin completely cap in the last day, but ice thickness varies as the edges froze first and the center froze last. Fish-able ice can still be found […]
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