Beaver Creek Fire

Fishing the North Fork of the North Platte with the Beaver Creek Fire in the background.

As many of you know there’s a large forest fire burning 25 miles Northwest of Walden.  The “Beaver Creek Fire” originated near Twisty Park which is just a few miles Northwest of Big Creek Lakes.  So far the fire has burned close to 26,000 acres and is doing more good than harm.  The fire is located in an area that is highly concentrated in beetle killed timber.  With the overwhelming amount of fuel for this fire we expect this to burn until the snow arrives.  To date the fire and smoke is not effecting any fishing in the valley.  Our prevailing winds blow out of the Southwest which is blowing the smoke Northeast towards Laramie, WY.  The only closures are Independence mountain, Big Creek lakes, and the Upper Encampment on the Colorado side.  There’s a ton of up-to-date information on the following web site which is updated daily by the federal government.  You can find this info at the following web site http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4797/.  Get up here and go Fishing!