Now is the time, get there!

The summer fishing season in the Rocky Mountains has been quite challenging in the past couple of months.  With record snowfall in the mountains from Canada to Colorado our rivers have been swollen to record levels. With all this high water the fishing has been challenging, but our trips have been quite successful in these challenging months.

The past couple of months I have heard many times, that the water was too high to fish from many customers. Most the time, they were told from someone who had heard from someone who heard from someone, that you couldn’t fish this time of year. The fishing can be challenging, but also very rewarding! I always would recommend fishing with a guide this time of year, unless you fish often and know the local areas well. That is what we are here for, to get people into fish even in the toughest conditions!

The good news is that the streams dropping to perfect levels, the hatches are happening and the fish are hungry. We are planning on an amazing late summer and fall of fishing.

Many people have also asked and speculated on how the health of the streams and trout will be after such a high water season.  The answer is the rivers and trout are going to benefit greatly!  This means clean rivers with abundant bug life and of course that means healthy streams and fat healthy trout.

The fishing is getting better and better every day! The Arkansas River is “Hot”, the upper Colorado is fishing “Hot”, the South Platte is getting good, The Roaring Fork is “Hot”, the Blue is fishing “Great” and many other streams are fishing “Good” to “Hot” in Colorado.  Now is the time, get there!

So book your trip with us for the “Hottest Fishing” we have seen in many years! Stop in for the hot flies and talk some fishing.

Colorado Fly Fishing about to Explode

On most of the Colorado Rivers the flows have been steadily dropping and clearing over the past week.  With the exception of some afternoon thunderstorms dropping large amounts of rain in some areas causing some rivers to run off color for a day or so.

What this means is with the clear water and flows dropping the fishing will be getting better and better with each day of dropping flows and rising water temperatures.

The last few days that I was able to wet a line, we caught fish in the pockets and edges.  Where the fish should have been!  Now the fishing I cannot say was super hot, but we managed plenty of hook ups and fish to the net.  The only thing really lacking was a little less water and some warmer temperatures to kick the hatches and fish activity into high gear.

With the dropping flows we should see this activity ramp up in the next week or two. So this means get out and fish daily.  This is the time of year you can hit one of the “Hot” days on the river. 

Fish will be aggressively hitting dries and nymphs alike and as long as the pattern is close I highly doubt you will have many refusals.

Colorado Rocky Mountain Fly Fishing

Colorado Rocky Mountain Fly Fishing

Wow, July is here and it really does not feel like it.  For many weeks I was thinking that we were just a couple weeks off of normal, for this time of year.  As I look up to the high peaks however, it seems like it may be more like a month.

This has definitely slowed the fishing here in Colorado but we have been being selective on trips and finding some great fishing. 

I really think that this is a great way to look at fishing this time of year and in these conditions. You have to be selective of where you are going to fish, selective of the bugs you are going to use and selective of the techniques to present your flies to the fish.  If you get these aspects right you will have some great success.

We all love to have easy days with bugs flying and fish gobbling your flies.  We will be having these days and I believe they will last all summer; it may just be a couple weeks to a month behind schedule.  Now when it does happen hold on! I am talking weeks if not the whole summer with plenty of cool water in our rivers, to keep the hatches popping and fish chowing.

All that being said, don’t hesitate to go fishing right now.  These are great days to be on the water, you may be the first one to have that “magic” day; when you can do no wrong and every fly you put on gets chewn to threads. Just remember it is kinda like winning the lottery if you don’t play you can’t win.

So get out and fish!  You may be surprised on how good it actually has been.