Fall Colorado Fishing Flys

[Murdoc]

I'm wanting to plan a trip out to the Dream Stream and the other great streams in Colorado this fall. I'm looking for the fly patterns for the fall fishing. Can anyone give me a list of what I should take?? Thank you all!!!

[laker67]

I'm wanting to plan a trip out to the Dream Stream and the other great streams in Colorado this fall. I'm looking for the fly patterns for the fall fishing. Can anyone give me a list of what I should take?? Thank you all!!!

Here is wishing you a great trip Murdoc. I can't help you out on fly patterns, but I know there are many on here who can and will. Good luck to you.

[tippet7]

on the pan-mysis shrimp, red thread midge SMALL(20-24) if you get lucky and hit a hatch, small BWOs, green drakes, griffiths gnats and adams. make sure they are SMALL and your tippet is small as well. 7 or 8x with long leaders. fish in the pan are as big as engine blocks on a buick, but very spooky.

almost forgot-on the pan fish the area known as the toilet bowl. it is the outflow from the dam, big churny water, but there are PIGS in there. i had very very very good luck using an RS2 on a small split shot, with a strike indicator about 7 or 8 feet above the fly. be ready for MASSIVE hits in there and be ready to lose some flies but be rewarded with big fish.

good luck- i really miss fishing the pan!

[flyfishmaster]

Murdoc,

I recently had a great PM with Paloa Cat about fishing in CO. He is heading to the Dillion area in a few weeks.

As far your trip to the Dream Stream, 11 Mile Canyon and "The Pan" goes, I think I can help. I have been to each of these streams 8 times or more. So send me a PM and I will give you a detail listing of flies you should have with you.

Later,

FFM

[tippet7]

Murdoc,

I recently had a great PM with Paloa Cat about fishing in CO. He is heading to the Dillion area in a few weeks.

As far your trip to the Dream Stream, 11 Mile Canyon and "The Pan" goes, I think I can help. I have been to each of these streams 8 times or more. So send me a PM and I will give you a detail listing of flies you should have with you.

Later,

FFM

Why cant you list the flies here? Are they "secret receipes"?

[flyfishmaster]

Okay okay... Chill down. I'm get them posted some time tomorrow.

later,

FFM

[flyfishmaster]

Well for all you sitting at the edge of chairs waiting to see the list, here it is. I do except royalites for each fish catch using these flies.

Well here is the list of flies that I use with success. There are other flies that will catch the fish, but here are the “go to” flies:

First fishing a double rigs is best to cover different water columns.

Okay, one of the top producing flies in all these streams is the SZ 20/22 Mercury Pheasant Tail. This flies have accounted for a few hundred fish throughout the 8 years of fishing our there between 3 of us fishing.

As for as Spinney “the Dream Stream”, :

• If you are fishing any riffle section, put on a SZ 16 San Juan Worm.

When fishing the edges, seams or drops use one of these:

• SZ 20/22 Mercury Pheasant Tail

• SZ 20 Sparkle Wing or Mercury RS2

• SZ 22 WD40

• SZ 20 Black Zebra Midge

• SZ 20 Buckskin, look out on AO Forum and do search for it. I have posted the picture and recipe. One the simples fly ever to tie.

• If it is late in the fall, use micro sized Glo Balls in Peach or orange.

Drys:

• SZ 20-24 Trico Spinners

• SZ 20 Adams

• SZ 22 Bunny Dun

11 Mile Canyon has some great fishing up by the dam (if you can find a place to fish), otherwise at the second tunnel pull over and go down the steep embankment. There is excellent fishing in this section.

• SZ 20 Sparkle Wing or Mercury RS2

• SZ 20/22 Mercury Pheasant Tail

• SZ 22 WD40

• SZ 20 Black Zebra Midge

• SZ 20 Buckskin,

• SZ 20 Golden Hares Ear

• Sz 18 Jujube

Drys:

• SZ 20-24 Trico Spinners

• SZ 20 Adams

• SZ 22 Bunny Dun

• Plus the Missouri favorite “Crackleback” . It works awesome out west.

Please inform me of the other river/streams you want to hit; here are some of my favs:

Blue River - Breckenridge

Blue River - Silverthorne

Blue River - Green Mtn

Colorado - Parshall

Williams Fork – Parshall (personal favorite)

Frying Pan – Basalt

Roaring River – Basalt/Glenwood Springs

South Platte – Deckers / Trumbull

Later,

FFM

[AZ_Trout]

I'm wanting to plan a trip out to the Dream Stream and the other great streams in Colorado this fall. I'm looking for the fly patterns for the fall fishing. Can anyone give me a list of what I should take?? Thank you all!!!

Lots of nice places out there. I'd really suggest getting a hold of Pat Dorsey http://www.bluequillangler.com/

I've fished with Pat a couple of times and all I can say is Pat and any of the other guides he uses or suggest are TOP Notch.

Pat is just a great guy and has so much info on the South Platte system -- you'll just pick up all kinds of info.

The folks at Cutthroat Angles in Silverthorne are OK too.

Good luck on the trip

[podum]

Last week on the Lake Fork of the Gunnison the stone flies were thick and there was a great hopper bite. The hopper bite should last into the fall.

[ozarkgunner]

Last week on the Lake Fork of the Gunnison the stone flies were thick and there was a great hopper bite. The hopper bite should last into the fall.

The Pan was HOT last week! I landed some monster browns up by the outlet on a green drake.