Black Lake Fishing Guide, Boulder County, Colorado

• Overview

  This water sits in Boulder County, Colorado. Elevation runs to 10,643 feet. The water measures roughly 9 acres, so nothing here is far from anything else. The closest town, Estes Park, is 9.9 miles away. The big place round here is Boulder, 26 miles distant. Alternatives close at hand: Blue Lake near enough 0.6 miles, Frozen Lake at 0.6 miles, Solitude Lake near enough 0.6 miles, Shelf Lake at 0.7 miles and Green Lake near enough 0.9 miles. It sits well inside the county, so one set of rules covers it.

• Where to Fish on Black Lake

  Depth is not on record here, so the bank has to tell you. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Fish documented in Boulder County include black-spotted cutthroat trout, brook trout and brown trout. County records show the wider picture rather than this one place. Work Black Lake in sections rather than trying to cover it.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages move between 19°F in February and 52°F in July. Four clear seasons, with a proper winter at one end. Winter locks it down, and late May brings it back. Ice clears near late May and comes back about early November in a typical year. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. That is the shape of the year on Black Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. No slipway, car park or made path shows up nearby in mapping, so treat access as rough. For the trout, small spinners and a box of nymphs cover both approaches. Some banks are open only from a marked point. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. Blue Lake at 0.6 miles is the sensible second choice. Nothing here settles the position at Black Lake for certain.