The Lower Blue River stretches approximately 15 miles across Summit and Grand Counties from Green Mountain Reservoir to its confluence with the Colorado River. The river corridor supports a great diversity of natural resources, including wildlife like elk, white tail deer, mule deer, moose, bear, mountain lion, bobcat, river otter, […]
Colorado Rivers
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The Mother’s Day Caddis Hatch has arrived in Colorado and fly fishing on the Eagle, Roaring Fork and Arkansas Rivers is all about this bug right now. After a long winter of eating tiny midges and mayflies, in late April and through May another, larger aquatic insect becomes an important […]
Where do you find good public fly fishing in the Vail Valley when waters in local rivers run high? If you do not want to drive more than 20 minutes try out a few of the following Vail Valley high water hot spots. Black Lakes Atop of Vail Pass sits […]
The Delaney Butte lakes, near Walden, Colorado offer anglers fantastic spring fly fishing. Fly fisherman who visit the three Delaney Butte Lakes can fish a chironomid midge hatch that is so thick you can hear them buzzing as they swarm on shore. The best time to fish these three north […]
Tailwater fly fishing in Colorado is the angler’s answer to high off color water commonly found on rivers during spring. When the snow begins to melt at the end of ski season here in Central Colorado’s Vail Valley, the local waterways turn a chocolate brown, become unsafe to wade and […]
The Eagle River Preserve offers anglers great access to the river near Edwards, Colorado. Maybe you have been lucky enough to have an opportunity to fly fish the Eagle River Preserve this year? Maybe you have had the chance to walk the dog on the intricate trail system there? Maybe […]
Fly Fishing the Lower Colorado River Glenwood Springs, Colorado is a great place to access the Lower Colorado River for a spring time fly fishing trip. The trout rich Roaring Fork River ends its journey by dumping into the Colorado River here in Glenwood Springs and was adding about 600 […]
Float Fishing the Eagle River Pre-Runoff Spring float fishing on the Eagle River is almost here. Every year about the beginning of April the rivers in the Vail Valley start to rise and local fly fisherman begin floating the Eagle River prior to the runoff. This is a little known, […]
Gore Creek, one of only fourteen “Gold Medal” streams in the state of Colorado flows past Vail ski area resorts and lifts for several miles on its way towards the Eagle River. In fact until 1964, when the Vail ski area began, nobody but sheep herders frequented this pristine central […]
Every year about the end of February, here in Central Colorado, the Roaring Fork River turns into a midge factory that produces the first good hatch of the season. The hatch of a variety of midges will fill the bottom of a self-bailing raft with so many midge shucks that […]
Guiding Schools to train fly fisherman how to be fly fishing guides have become more and more common as the sport has evolved over the last 25 years. For several decades, it was my pleasure to provide, every spring, several week long fly fishing guiding schools. Taking place in the […]
A Simple Formula for Winter Fly Fishing Success From mid-November until mid- March, fly fishing in the Vail area is fairly straight forward. As we have discussed earlier if you find deep, slower pools you have already found trout. These winter fish demand deep nymphing tactics ninety percent of the […]
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