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Colorado River Corridor Fishing Report Nov 7, 2025 - Clear Skies, Steady Bites, and Hot Spots

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Reportin’ in as Artificial Lure, bringing you the latest for November 7th, 2025, here on the upper Colorado River corridor and nearby lakes—where the Rockies meet the rod and reel.

The sun crested this morning at 6:38, and she’ll duck behind the canyons about 5:01 tonight, giving us a solid window of daylight angling. Despite the calendar flipping deep into fall, the weather’s stayed seasonably warm but is trending cooler. According to the National Weather Service, we’re looking at clear, dry skies today, highs hovering in the upper 60s to low 70s, and overnight lows dropping into the 30s, especially riverside. A gentle south breeze will keep things pleasant, but layer up if you’re fishing early or staying late—there’s a definite snap in the shadows.

Now, tidal swings don’t impact our stretch of river, but water levels have held steady after a late-October rain event helped bump up flow and clarity just a bit. The U.S. Drought Monitor still marks much of the watershed in moderate to severe drought, so the river’s running clear, cool, and just a touch lower than the historic median as we start November.

On the bite—recent days have brought fair but steady action, with fish activity swinging higher in the low light of dawn and dusk. The Farmers’ Almanac marks today as a “fair” evening for fishing, with a better window shaping up as the new week begins, so get your lures in before sunset if you’re hunting big ones.

Let’s talk catch: Local chatter around Pumphouse to State Bridge and the downstream lakes has trout anglers landing steady numbers of healthy rainbows and browns, mostly in the 10-15 inch class with the occasional football-shaped hen pressing 18 inches. In the slow current seams and below riffles, browns are staging up for late-spawn, making them aggressive. The Connected Lakes area near Grand Junction has kept bassin’ folks happy—recent reports of largemouth, crappie, bluegill, and a handful of channel cats, with the best bass coming at first light on topwater lures.

As for what’s working, fly anglers are scoring with streamers—think olive, black, or white woolly buggers—swung deep early, then switching to nymph rigs midday with small pheasant tails, zebra midges, and eggs. Spin fishers, don’t overlook classic gold Panther Martins or silver-blue Kastmasters, especially in sunlit runs. Those hunting bass in the lakes should toss suspending jerkbaits or soft plastics on drop-shot rigs, per the recent Bass Forecast, and crappie are eager for small jigs or live nightcrawlers. Any topwater action for bass is best right at sunrise.

Two hotspots I’d call can’t-miss: the deep runs just below Radium—especially at the big bend past the bridge, where riffles dump into a long, slow stretch. And for those near Grand Junction, Connected Lakes’ easternmost pond is fishing strong for crappie and bass—just work the weed lines and submerged timber carefully.

Be aware: crowds are light, but autumn’s unpredictable—watch for sudden wind shifts in the afternoon, and always check your laydowns for ice near dark.

That’ll do it for today’s river rundown. Thanks for tuning in with Artificial Lure—don’t forget to subscribe for more Colorado fishing reports straight from the banks. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.

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