{"id":21444,"date":"2020-02-15T14:59:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T21:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=63196"},"modified":"2020-02-16T08:06:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T15:06:15","slug":"wolford-ice-fishing-catching-brown-trout-on-a-bluebird-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/wolford-ice-fishing-catching-brown-trout-on-a-bluebird-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolford Ice Fishing: Catching brown trout on a bluebird day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fishermen and women peeled off layers in the Saturday sun \u2014 not a typical action in mid-February atop a frozen reservoir near Kremmling.<\/p>\n

The bright sky and dazzling snow made for a bluebird day on Wolford Mountain Reservoir. While the fish bites were scarce for some, the anglers on the ice were happy to be out enjoying the 23rd<\/sup> annual Wolford Ice Fishing Competition.<\/p>\n

Gary Romo hadn\u2019t caught anything a few hours into the tournament, but he said that might be because he was fishing somewhere different. From Thornton, this was Romo\u2019s fifth year at the tournament. In previous years he typically fished in a spot a few hundred yards away, but found that it gets too crowded.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat happened to us last year, we had it all to ourselves on Friday, but come tournament day we were surrounded,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Wolford Tournament is a favorite tradition of Romo\u2019s that he shares with his friends and children. This year, Romo and his group chose to fish where it was a bit more open, which he said may not do as well but at least allows better space.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis place has always provided us some good fishing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Classic rock played from tents on the lake and the scent of gasoline from ATVS and snowmobiles mingled with the fresh air. Romo recalled a former tournament when cars were allowed on the reservoir, but only ATVs and snowmobiles were permitted on the 15 inches of ice this year.<\/p>\n

Doug Miskol, from Denver, also hadn\u2019t caught any fish by about 9:30 that morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you know what, there\u2019s still a lot of time left,\u201d he said with a smile.<\/p>\n

The tournament took place from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday with hourly prizes for the biggest fish. Over 500 anglers participated in the tournament.<\/p>\n

This year was Miskol\u2019s first at Wolford. He came up with his friend, also from Denver, who has a place in Grand Lake. While the weather was great, he was hopeful for some catches before the day was over.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s nice to have a nice day today,\u201d Miskol said. \u201cGet a bite and we\u2019ll be doing better.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fishermen and women peeled off layers in the Saturday sun \u2014 not a typical action in mid-February atop a frozen reservoir near Kremmling. The bright sky and dazzling snow made for a bluebird day on Wolford Mountain Reservoir. While the fish bites were scarce for some, the anglers on the ice were happy to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 09:54:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21452,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21444\/revisions\/21452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}