Fly fishing the Colorado river

Frying Pan Anglers – a full service fly fishing shop and outfitter based in Basalt Colorado which provides guided fly fishing trips on the frying pan river, roaring fork river, Colorado river and other rivers in the Basalt area. Frying Pan Anglers carries fly fishing equipment, with Hardy fly fishing equipment, and fly fishing supplies. It provides regular fishing reports and fly fishing reports for the frying pan river, the roaring fork river and Colorado river in our area. Frying Pan Anglers is the premier fly fishing and guided fly fishing outfitter for the best quality guides and fly fishing equipment. Frying Pan Anglers provides a range of fly fishing equipment including orvis, hardy, greys, lamson, ross, galvan, and bauer fly fishing reels. In addition it carries orvis helios fly rods, hardy, greys, GL Loomis, mystic echo and St Croix fly rods. It is your one stop fly fishing shop and fly fishing outfitter in the frying pan river area for guided float and wade fishing trips and tours. It hosts excellent fly fishing guides and fly fishing tours on the frying pan river and other local waters. The guides will provide excellent teaching and coaching for clients of Frying Pan Anglers.

Colorado River

Summer Fishing.

After run-off has finished and the water is clear there is excellent fishing on the Colorado during Summer. The drakes will hatch there before they start hatching on the Fork and then the Pan. Other hatches occur there earlier as well.

At the height of summer, a distinction has to be drawn between fishing the Colorado below the confluence with the Roaring Fork and above it. In the hot weather, the Colorado near Dotsero, for instance, gets affected by the heat. The water warms and the fish become lethargic during the day. The only reasonable fishing is in the mornings or in the later afternoons against the steep banks with hoppers. If you took the time though it is a pretty float through open rural lands down towards Dotsero.

However, below the Fork the water is cooled by the colder water from the Roaring Fork. So in fact the fishing on the Colorado below Glenwood is better in the summer heat until even the lower Fork starts to warm a little. There is excellent floating if the water is clear down to Silt and Rifle. Furthermore, down that far, there are carp which is a favorite of Ed.

One disadvantage of the Colorado below Glenwood is that the water can color up very quickly if there is a sudden summer downpour. If the Crystal river or Thompson Creek blow out, that will dirty the Fork which in turn will affect the Colorado and the fishing in the Colorado can be off for days.

Flies:

Theo’s bead head stone-tan-#10
Tungsten rubber leg hares ear -#14
Barrs copper john-red and copper-#14, #16
Double bead head Biot stone, hares ear-#6, #8
Bead head twenty incher #10, #8
Mercers poxy stone-brown-#10
Half back stone-#6, #8
Brown hackle peacock- various sizes
Roaring Fork stone-#8, #10, #12
Various Prince Nymphs;
caddis;
Terrestrials

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