Salmon Fishing in Almont, CO

About two weeks ago, I was salmon fishing near a little town called Almont, CO, which is in western Colorado. My dad's friend Gary from Vietnam invited me to join he and his family for this annual salmon extravaganza. He told me we were guaranteed to catch a lot of fish, but I had no idea until I got there. Every year, some land-locked version of the Sockeye Salmon called Kokone, head back up to the Roaring Judy fish hatchery. The fish are four years old, and after spawning, they'll die. This makes for some good fishing. We left on Friday, 9/14 at around 9:45AM. We took 285 through South Park, and stopped below the Taylor Reservoir to observe the huge trout that sit below the dam. We're talking 20 pounders. The fish love the oxygen rich water created by the flow going through the dam, and nobody is allowed on the land near the dam, so the fish never get caught and just keep growing. It is truly spectacular. Along the way, we'd check out the aspen leaves, which were starting to change, and I got to see more of the west slope than I'd seen before. The west side of the Rocky Mountains is much more moist than the east side, so it has a different look to it. All in all, it was a great weekend, and I probably caught close to 50 fish on Friday and Saturday. It was one of my favorite weekends here in Colorado, and I'm definitely going back next year. Here's some pictures: