About five or six miles from Almont turn-off there is a fork with the left road towards Spring Creek Reservoir about 15 miles with the right turn (actually the main road) towards Taylor Reservoir. We turned left as I had never been to Spring Creek Reservoir. Spring Creek and the road, which quickly turned from asphalt to bumpy dirt road. We stopped once to fly fish, here is a photo of my SUV and the place where I climbed up from the road for a call of nature.
We drove up to the reservoir, here is a Google Map of the Reservoir, I added three points of interest, the first is where I caught my only fish of the day, the second is the beaver dam and pond, and the third place is where Dad and I finished fishing for the day:
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Here are some photos from our day fishing at Spring Creek Reservoir, in what turned out to be rare gem of Gunnison County.
The first set of photos are the first place we fished. I caught my fish here. The first photo I took facing South-East towards the dam and you can see the spill-way in the middle of the photo. The second photo I took facing North. Spring Creek Reservoir is in the middle of a high mountain valley but the elevation is only 8400 so it isn't too bad. My dad caught a small fish that swallowed the hook so we kept it.
Dad and I decided to continue to explore the lake, so we followed the dirt road along the left side of the lake, we crossed where Spring Creek emptied into the reservoir. We noticed a beaver pond with fish jumping. We drove through a small creek, turned around and drove back to as close as we could get to the visible beaver lodge and pond. Here are a couple of photos of the beaver pond and Dad fishing Spring Creek's miniature river delta. This first photo is facing South, the second photo is Dad walking towards the beaver pond.
I had the idea to clean the two fish before following Dad towards the ponds. Dad and I discussed the night before of making Mushroom Lake Trout for dinner. I took this photo to show visual proof of our catch at that point because about ten seconds after taking this photo and putting my camera back into my shorts (my fish the larger of the two), I was finishing washing out the last of the blood from my rainbow trout when it slipped out of my hands into the fast rushing stream and I lost my trout dinner!
Sick at myself, I threaded my way through the brush and got close enough to the beaver pond to take this photo the pond and the beaver lodge. I tried floating a bobber with salmon eggs, received a good bite, but ended up losing two bobbers and rigs to low brush in the water. The second photo is my Dad, using his new fly pole and rig, walking up Spring Creek.
After not catching any fish, we decided to drive back to the dam and finished off our day fishing. Between my father and I we were visited by a chipmunk. I took a couple of photos and my Dad caught a nice size fish. After seven o'clock, we decided to drive back to Gunnison and order a pizza instead of cooking the fish.
Yesterday is a special day I'll remember.
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