Tarryall Reservoir, CO
NW side, by Jetty
Outing Information
- Date
- Start/End Time
- 10:30am to 1:45pm
- Best Fishing Time
- 11:45 to 1:45
- Rating
- Fair
- Classification
- Public
- Water Temp
- 32.0°F
- Water Clarity
- Slightly Stained - 3' to 5' visibility
- Water Level
- -
- User
- Jack McLaren
Fish Caught
Northern Pike
| Caught | Avg Size | Pattern | Optional Fields |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0" | 3" Sucker | |
| 1 | 0" |
Rainbow Trout
| Caught | Avg Size | Pattern | Optional Fields |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12" | Orange JB lures hot head | |
| 1 | 12" |
Weather
| Skies | Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunny | X | ||
| Mostly Sunny | X | ||
| Precipitation | |||
| None | X | X | |
| Wind | |||
| Very Light - <5 knots | X | ||
| Light - 5 to 10 knots | X |
- Air Temp High/Low
- 30.0°F / 40.0°F
- Wind Direction
- -
- Weather Front
- -
- Barometer
- -
- Moon Phase
- 10% Full (Waning crescent)
Other Patterns Tried
- Silver Pat's PK Killer Spoon
Hatches
No hatch information for this outing.
Insect Seining
No seining information for this outing.
Fishing Partners
No fishing partners were saved with this outing.
Waypoints
No waypoints were saved with this outing.
Notes
(Pike) OK, so we didn't really catch one, but we might as well have. 2" sucker from Gander in 6-7 FOW 1 Foot off bottom. In between 3rd & 4th telephone poles (one is next to first campground) and directly across the lake the spot is in line with small brown sign in Parking lot.
My dad and I went to Tarryall to try for some pike. We started drilling off of the first jetty, but the water was only a few feet deep. After drilling more holes, we found the 6-8 foot depth we were looking for. We set up two tip-ups with whole 2-3" suckers. I started fishing a little ways away, with a Swedish pimple tipped with sucker meat. My dad drilled a hole in 12 feet of water to try for trout.
After about an hour of jigging and nothing, I want to check the tip-ups. I thought I could see both tip-ups from where I was sitting, but as I approached, I saw that one was tripped. Even more unfortunately, the line was snagged, and I had to break off. The other tip-up wasn't tripped, but the sucker was gone. I went back to my jigging hole and my dad told me he had caught a 12" rainbow.
The bites were very light. Suckers were set 1 foot off the bottom in 6-8 feet of water. Make sure your tip-ups are set light, as is seemed that the pike tended to only mouth the bait. My dad caught the trout on a tiny glow-in the jig tipped with a waxworm. The jig was smaller than the worm. We found where the pike are, so we will be back.
Ice: 14-16", all of it clear.
Depth: 6-8 for pike, 10-12 for trout.
Location: South and east of the very first jetty.
Weather: Absolutely beautiful, sun shining, wind calm. And Matt, the FxR forecast was the most accurate of all the forecasts we looked at, most others were calling for wind and snow.