Need some tips..

[doz]

OK.. Ive fished @ aurora res a couple times lately. Fished both sides of marina bay, and fished the dam side. Havent even gotten a bite. Ive tried night crawlers, 10 different colors of power bait, salmon eggs, and various lures including panthers, kastmasters, and daredevils. Getting really aggrivated. Any tips? Im fishing my bait rigs 1 1/2 - 3 ft from swivel and egg sinker. Also tried a splitshot 1 1/2 up from hook.
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[DonInDenver]

Boy, doz, I wish I could help you, but I've never fished Aurora. How deep is the water you're fishing? Nothing you have said jumps out at me as requiring modification. Hopefully, some of the folks who fish it regularly will see this.
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[doz]

Oh hell.. Maybe, and im guessing.. 8-10 ft deep? I probably know the fix.. I bet if i bought a season pass, and started paying the park fee, the fish would like me more ;/ Ugh...... so pissed off
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[NealCO]

I live close to Aurora and fish it alot. I have found I catch alot more fish there with lures than bait, (of course I tend to fish lures almost exclusively). Aurora is loaded with Spottail Shiners and the trout really seem to key on them sometimes. Right now the water is low also, so traditional dropoffs don't exist.

I would follow the bicycle path around to the east side of the lake and just slowly fish all the way into the back cove. I like to use a silver/blue 1/8 oz Kastmaster and just search for them. Don't reel them in straight! Snap jig them back and you will catch trout and Perch. Once the water gets warm and you start to see clouds of small shiners in the shallows, try to fish there in the evenings. Sometimes those bigger trout come in shallow and you can actually see them hunting those shiners. I like to use a 1/8 oz Vibrax minnow in the silver shiner color and reel fast enough to keep it running over the top of the weeds. I have had several 15 fish nights doing this there. By the way that also works well at Spinney, up in the mountains.

If you like to flyfish, use a strike indicator and a #14 Chrononimid (midge) nymph, in black or red. Cast your flyline out as far as possible and slowly strip it back. If that doesn't work, add a couple of split shot to your leader and just let the wind drift the fly back to you.

They put smallmouths in there a few years ago and they are really starting to take hold. I caught about a half dozen last summer in the Marina Cove on jigs.

The walleye are a mystery there to me? Have never caught one, but then I fish from shore there and i think they stay out in fairly deep water during the day?
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[doz]

Ok thx neal. Ya i like to lure fish more, so does my wife, but we have a 3 year old who can only reel in. So we kinda go w/ bait fishing alot. Will get around to the other side though and check that out Thx for the advice, maybe see you out there sometime
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[Pancho]

Hi,
This year is the first that I have fished at Aurora, and I have done well on bait as well as lures. I have stayed on the north end, near the scuba area. Bait - I've only used salmon eggs and fished off the bottom at about 30' out. Every few minutes I crank my reel about 3-5 times until I get a strike. It has worked almost every time. Lures - My #1 choice is a #7 Floating Rapala in the rainbow trout pattern. I cast as far as I can and use a crank and stop method. The rainbows attack that lure. I've also been lucky with various Panther Martins. Good Luck.
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