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Report Date: 4/1/2025
Current Conditions:
ANTERO IS ICE FREE!
Antero is now completely free of ice and stillwater season is here! Ice off came about 3 weeks early this year due to the windy and warm temperatures we saw this early spring. This is a great time to target stillwater in general, and Antero has been very good this last week. The fishing has been good all over the lake. Most of the fish are cruising tight to the shorelines in search of food.
Hatches:
Early season stillwater (ice off) there are not many bugs active. Midges are active but not on a large scale yet. Its a game of eggs, scuds, leeches, and some chironomids right now.
Tactics:
At ice off, most of the fish will be cruising very tight to the shorelines. You wont need to cast far right now and will likely be fishing pretty shallow. The primary focus should be spotting active fish and fishing in those areas. Its pretty east to sight fish when they are only 10-20 feet from shore.
Tips:
Dodge the wind! Try to focus on the times of the day where there will be less wind. Keep your casts rather close to shore. Think more parallel to the shore.
Weather:
Short Term- In the spirit of spring in Colorado, we will see some pretty big changes in the weather this week. We will have chances of snow every day this week through Saturday. While these daily totals wont amount to much, we could see a fair amount of snow fall by this weekend. Temps will cool off quite a bit as well and be in the upper 20'3/low 30's for highs. Overnight and morning lows will also get quite cold. We are expecting low temps to be in the teens. There could also be some heavier winds through the week making things that much colder. It will be an interesting week weather wise.
Long Term- After this week and weekend, things look to settle down a bit. Temps will still be cool on Sunday but we will see things warm up after that. Temps will get back into the 50's around the 8th. Longer range forecasts are showing a period of dry weather through the middle of the month.
Its now April, and we are about 25 days away from the median peak in our snowpack. This is when we start to lose volume in the snowpack and the start of runoff. As of today, the South Platte basin is at 100% of average snowpack. This is great news considering the dry and windy conditions we have seen over the last few weeks. With lots of storms in the forecast we should be able to gain on this number quite a bit in the next week. The hope is that we do not warm up too fast this spring to keep runoff from happening al at once.
NOW BOOKING STILLWATER TRIPS FOR SPRING 2025. WE ARE FILLING UP FAST!
This is an area we offer guided fly fishing trips. Angler's Covey is home to some of the best and most passionate anglers in the area. Ice off can be one of the most exciting times of the year to fish stillwater. If you would like to try your hand at stillwater fly fishing, give us a call! You wont be disappointed.
- Sunny side up eggs, all colors
- Slapshot scud, orange-grey, sizes 14-16
- Flashtail egg, orange, sizes 14-16
- Mini leech jig, black, green, sizes 14-16
- Frostbite chironomid, sizes 16-18
- Balanced leech, black/green, sizes 12-14
- N/A
- Dungeon, white/natural, size 4
- Double Gonga, yellow. Size 4
- Meat whistle, white or lighter, sizes 2-8
Antero Reservoir is a shallow reservoir with healthy plant life and more scud shrimp than you can shake a hook at. Because it is so loaded with these protein-rich scuds the trout feed on, their growth rate is significantly higher than fish in most other reservoirs within a reasonable driving distance. So if you have an appetite for catching large and beautifully colored Rainbows and Browns, consider Antero.
This is an area we specialize in and are permitted to guide, so give us a shout if you have any questions or if you are interested in allowing one of our Orvis-Endorsed guides show you how best to conquer Antero Reservoir.