Greg Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 My family and I are heading to CO for a week long family vacation towards the end of July/1st of Aug. Mostly a family trip but I'm planning to spend a couple of days fishing. Our rough plan is to spend a few days in Durango, Denver, and CO Springs. I'm looking for some advice on Fly fishing in CO. My only experience is that many years ago my wife and I took a rafting/fishing trip on the Arkansas river. It was fun but I really prefer to wade fish. I'm thinking Durango is probably my best bet for my limited fishing time? I was maybe thinking about fishing the Animas one day and driving over to the San Juan in New Mexico another day? Good plan? So I'm really looking for advice on these 2 rivers or other areas to fly fish in CO/North New Mexico. Thanks in advance, Greg "My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it" - Koos Brandt Greg Mitchell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motroutbum Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 Its a good thing that I guide out of Durango huh? Greg, when I get back we should get together and I can talk one on one with you if you want, Ive pretty much this area dialed in so any help that you need I can most likely provide. There are two types of people. Those who dream dreams and wish, then there are the do'ers. I am a do'er! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted June 24, 2007 Author Share Posted June 24, 2007 Hey that sounds great. Please let me know when you're back. Greg "My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it" - Koos Brandt Greg Mitchell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motroutbum Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 Ill be back next saturday. so any time after that will be great. There are two types of people. Those who dream dreams and wish, then there are the do'ers. I am a do'er! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micheal Kyle Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Greg that is who I was telling you about great hook up. randy really knows that area great. I cant wait untill we get to be fishing buds again. To Know People Is To Know Thier Ways! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted June 25, 2007 Author Share Posted June 25, 2007 Thanks Michael. I had forgotten that you told me the last time I was in that you knew someone that knows the area well. Both you and Jim had some good advice about the Animas and the San Juan when I was in last week too. Hopefully the weather will cooperate so that my fair weather fly fishing wife will have fun too. I can't wait to go!!!! Greg "My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it" - Koos Brandt Greg Mitchell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motroutbum Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 I cant wait to be fishin buddies again michael, but not in a brokeback kind of way....hahaha. Greg the chances of you having good weather when you get here are nearly 100%. You may encounter an afternoon thinderstorm, but its nothing to get your panties in a wad about. Durango averages 300+ days a year of sunshine and bluebird skies. There are two types of people. Those who dream dreams and wish, then there are the do'ers. I am a do'er! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crippled Caddis Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 Greg wrote: <Our rough plan is to spend a few days in Durango, Denver, and CO Springs. I'm looking for some advice on Fly fishing in CO.> Allow me one moment of scoffing up front: Fer God's sake why would you go to Denver and Co. Sprgs? That's the functional equivilent of a New Yorker 'escaping' the city by visiting LA.( OK thanks---I feel better now! By ALL means take up MoTroutBum on his offer! There are some true jewels in southern CO & northern NM that see NO touristas. But you either have to invest the time to discover them yourself (don't sound like you'll have that freedom with the family along) or have a local take pity on you. One suggestion that the family might enjoy almost as much as yourself----the upper Rio Costilla inside the state park immediately south of the CO state line has some very technical fishing for native Cutts in the open meadow runs in a very scenic area. (I've seen and heard more Elk there than in Jackson Hole) Or picking pockets in the Rio Costilla just above its' confluence with the Rio Grande. Or the UPPER upper Pecos where you can step across it up near where the road dead-ends in the Pecos Wilderness. Or the streams in the White Mts. of the national forest in East central Arizona near Alpine. I've had Bighorn sheep watch me fish the Black river there. Northern NM has a lot of great small fisheries for small native trout but you have to pay your dues to discover them. Maybe MTB can give you a few hints. CC "You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence." ---Charles Austin Beard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Beeson Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 I cant wait to be fishin buddies again michael, but not in a brokeback kind of way....hahaha. Careful, MTB... Michael has been practicing his night time slow stripping and showing off his headlights... TIGHT LINES, YA'LL "There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process." - Paul O’Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted June 27, 2007 Author Share Posted June 27, 2007 CC - If it were up to me I wouldn't be going to Denver and CO springs BUT it is a family vacation. My family doesn't share my obsession. So I'm lucky to be getting a couple of days in Durango. So I'm looking to maximize those couple of days. I appreciate your advice. MO troutbum - Regarding the weather that's good news. But you don't know my wife and I'm worried she might think it is too hot. She enjoys fly fishing with me but only when it's not too hot, too cold, and not raining. Greg "My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it" - Koos Brandt Greg Mitchell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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