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    smallmouth fishing Denver area

    Is there any good smaillie water around Denver? How about guides? Anyone have a name or two? Thanks
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    Aurora reservoir. I have no clue which lake around Denver is better than another, but I bet most of them have smallmouth.

    No recommendations on a guide, but this guy popped up.

    https://www.finesseangler.com/

    This time of year it isn't hard to catch a smallmouth. Fish from shore with a ned rig or drop shot and you should be good.

    Pueblo Reservoir has a good population or smallmouth, but that is south of Denver a bit.

    There are 3 major bass clubs in and around Denver. It wouldn't hurt to email them.

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    Shawn fishes chatfield all the time. I personally don't know him tho. I would just go rent a boat at pueblo and go chuck a green bitsy tube around
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    Not much at all in Denver. Horsetooth in Ft Collins. Pueblo by far best fishing within a couple hundred miles around Denver.

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    No way I would go to Horsetooth this time of year. It'll be a ZOO! One off... one on... Most days. I know guys that have waited 3 hours in line at the ramp. Plus the fishing sucks!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Babe Winkleworm View Post
    No way I would go to Horsetooth this time of year. It'll be a ZOO! One off... one on... Most days. I know guys that have waited 3 hours in line at the ramp. Plus the fishing sucks!
    Why the hell would you sit in that? In a 3 hour drive you can be at a bunch of other lakes without the crowds.

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    Pueblo is a zoo as well, plus with it being hot the fishing isn't that great. I would go to Trinidad or out of state. maybe john martin if it has water. Chatfield is good except being crowded.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CoBassin View Post
    Pueblo is a zoo as well, plus with it being hot the fishing isn't that great. I would go to Trinidad or out of state. maybe john martin if it has water. Chatfield is good except being crowded.
    I was actually at Pueblo on Saturday and it actually wasn't terribly busy. Fishing did suck though. Take that with a grain of salt though, I had to manage my 3 little boys.