Fishing Big Meadows Reservoir in Delta County, Colorado

• Overview

  Big Meadows Reservoir is set in Delta County, Colorado. The country here is pine and birch. About 23 acres of surface, which puts the far bank inside easy sight. Head to Cedaredge, 14 miles away, for anything you forgot. The nearest city of size is Boulder, 157 miles away. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Big Meadows Reservoir

  Nothing in our records gives a depth for this one. Built water gives depth close in, which suits a bank angler. Points where the flooded channel swings in are the reliable ones. Records held for Delta County cover rainbow trout, white sucker, flannelmouth sucker, bluehead sucker and brown trout. The county figures include rivers and lakes alike. Big Meadows Reservoir gives up its fish to patience rather than distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  In an average year July sits at 60°F and January at 19°F. A full turn of seasons, with the strongest sport on either side of summer. Ice-out usually falls in late April, and the weeks after it fish hardest. Climate figures give an open season running late April to late November. Late spring and early autumn carry the year between them. Plan around that when you fish Big Meadows Reservoir.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. Parking is often the real limit rather than the bank itself. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. Little Meadows Reservoir, 0.3 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. Ask locally about Big Meadows Reservoir if anything is unclear.