Calendar
| Feb 24 | Ice fishing closed |
| March-April | Office is closed, leave a message at 970-881-2175 and we'll return your call within a week |
| May 2 | Office opens with summer hours |
| May 10 | Summer fishing season is open! |
| May 24 | Guest fishing begins (Saturday of Memorial Day weekend) |
| July 3-5 | Ramona is closed for the Kids Fishing Contest |
Headlines
- Ice fishing closed February 24th for the season due to open water and unsafe ice
- Newsletter package will be mailed out by mid-March, click in the left panel to read it online now
- Office opens for normal hours beginning Friday, May 2
- There will be no change to dues in 2025
Water Status - We've done our usual winter preparation this fall by drawing down Hiawatha to fill Letitia, Snake, and Ramona. The snow this winter has been fairly minimal, we'll need a couple big spring snows in order to fill the lakes this summer.
Fishing Wrap-up - we had a great finish to our fishing season. For more information about 2024, read this report. We stocked fish in Letitia, Snake, Ramona, and Apache in later Sept. And this fall's great weather enabled fishing through October. Many commented on how nice the fishing was this fall!
Pelicans - as many have observed we've been getting more pelicans on the lakes who indiscriminately eat (gulp down) some very expensive fish. We've asked the Federal Migratory Bird office what we can do about this, and they said as long as they're not actively breeding / raising young, we can chase them away. By that they mean, harass but not harm. We're looking into ways we might do that next year with minimum impact to our anglers.
2024 Fall Projects - our main project this fall has been refurbishing the dam at Shagwa. This involved building a clay mix cut-off wall on the down-slope side of the dam. We also moving the outlet to the NE corner. Together these will help reduce seep that naturally occurs through the dam and better direct it downstream. We also completed several small maintenance projects this fall - work at the upper Mitchell headgate and Elkhorn headgate, cleaning out the toe drains at all the lakes, and doing some access improvements at Erie.
Boat Cleanup - We removed 7 boats from the lakes at the end of this fall's fishing season. Only two of the boats was properly stickered. If you forgot to remove your boat, you can arrange with the office for a time to come to our boat yard and identify it and bail it out for $200 + $5 boat registration. We want to thank everyone who removed their boats at the end of the season.