Fisher Reservoir Fishing near Paonia, Colorado

• Overview

  You will find Fisher Reservoir in Delta County, Colorado. The bank is 9,770 feet above sea level. At 2 acres it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. Our Delta County list holds plenty of bigger water. For supplies, Paonia is 12 miles out. For a city, Boulder is 147 miles off. It lies deep inside the county rather than near an edge.

• Where to Fish on Fisher Reservoir

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Where the bottom changes texture, fish gather; find that line. Fish documented in Delta County include rainbow trout, white sucker, flannelmouth sucker and bluehead sucker. Read it as a county summary, not a water-by-water list. At Fisher Reservoir light and wind decide more than tackle does.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate records put July near 54°F and January near 16°F. Winter shuts the surface down for months. Winter fishing happens on the ice here, with open water back around mid May. Average temperatures cross freezing around mid May in spring and again near mid November in autumn. September and October fish steadily right up to the freeze. The season on Fisher Reservoir follows the weather closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. Formal access is not mapped, so the last stretch is likely on foot. For the trout, small spinners and a box of nymphs cover both approaches. A landowner's word beats anything printed elsewhere. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. For a change of water, Skimmed Milk Reservoir is 0.1 miles distant. Nothing here settles the position at Fisher Reservoir for certain.