03-22-2008, 03:16 PM
I see we have another typically helpful post from trout_slayer. Thanks for a contribution of your usual hepfulness, TS.
kochanut-
I have fished the Black Canyon a couple of times. (It's a long haul for me over here on the other side of the Great Divide.) The primary access is down the Chukar Trail. It's steep and a lot of work coming back up. You can also access the lower end from around Pleasure Park and work your way up. I'll see if I can get my buddy bobco to chime in. He hales from over there and has fished the Gunny and Morrow point a fair amount. He even had rigged up a hand-wheel boat to take down the trail to Morrow Point a couple years ago. The tales I hear from Morrow point are of lots of really good fish, but I haven't made the hike down to it.
The Gunnison through the Black Canyon is now primarily a brown trout fishery as the rainbows were pretty much decimated by whirling disease over the last decade or so. Lots of fish, and some very good fish. For the big fish folks primarily fish nymphs, buggers, big streamers, tubes, twister tail grubs and your standard Rapala type crankbaits. Flows vary widely and are completely dependent on how much water they're letting out of Blue Mesa. This is going to be a year of long and heavy runoff over there.
Hope this is of some help.
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kochanut-
I have fished the Black Canyon a couple of times. (It's a long haul for me over here on the other side of the Great Divide.) The primary access is down the Chukar Trail. It's steep and a lot of work coming back up. You can also access the lower end from around Pleasure Park and work your way up. I'll see if I can get my buddy bobco to chime in. He hales from over there and has fished the Gunny and Morrow point a fair amount. He even had rigged up a hand-wheel boat to take down the trail to Morrow Point a couple years ago. The tales I hear from Morrow point are of lots of really good fish, but I haven't made the hike down to it.
The Gunnison through the Black Canyon is now primarily a brown trout fishery as the rainbows were pretty much decimated by whirling disease over the last decade or so. Lots of fish, and some very good fish. For the big fish folks primarily fish nymphs, buggers, big streamers, tubes, twister tail grubs and your standard Rapala type crankbaits. Flows vary widely and are completely dependent on how much water they're letting out of Blue Mesa. This is going to be a year of long and heavy runoff over there.
Hope this is of some help.
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