Gunnison Fly Fishing??

Supposed to be around Gunnison/Crested Butte in the next week or two and was wondering if there are any places my boys and I could fly fish? The maps show most river bottoms are private. Send me a pm if you can help us out with an idea.

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Thanks for the PM. That will get them a chance to wet a fly.

www.GunnisonFlyFish.com has all the Gunnison area related fly fishing information you could ever need.

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LAST EDITED ON Aug-29-16 AT 11:41AM (MST)[p]Not sure if you've already been to the Gunnison area on your hunt, but both the Taylor and the Gunnison Rivers are fishing lights out right now. Kokanee salmon are in the Gunny full-force and BIG browns and 'bows are trailing the pods upriver crushing tangerine trout beads or really anything red (such as Copper Johns & San Juan Worms). For anyone coming out to the Gunnison Valley on a hunt that has any interest in fly fishing the Lake City, Gunnison, Almont, or Crested Butte areas, you can find more information at www.GunnisonFlyFish.com.

LAST EDITED ON Dec-11-16 AT 06:49PM (MST)[p]Even though it is mid-December now, there is plenty of open water in the lower Gunnison, Taylor, and the East Rivers to give fly fishermen in the Gunny Basin some post-hunt recreation. www.GunnisonFlyFish.com for more information!

If you are interested in fly fishing in the Gunnison valley, check out http://www.flyfisherman.com/news/fly-fishing-the-gunnison-country-review/

The Gunnison and Taylor Rivers are absolutely on fire right now with stonefly nymphs and BWOs. Run-off is going to be strong and fierce this year so you've got about another 3 weeks or great angling before the rivers in the Gunnison Valley will be raging. Check out www.GunnisonFlyFish.com for more information.

Is there any chance you folks make a trip over to Utah in fall, stay at the Motel in Koosharem and eat at Tina's

DC

I'm going to hit East Portal soon. The road opened today.

This week will be fantastic fishing throughout the Gunny Basin with the cooler weather which has slowed run-off to a crawl. Both the Taylor River and the Gunnison River (at the East Portal) have been lights out with Pat's Rubberlegs with either a BWO or midge trailer. The Lake Fork of the Gunnison has receded and cleared and is fishing really well also. I'm betting as the weather warms up later this week we may finally enter into a true and sustained run-off. Might as well get it over with so we can fish. If you are looking for guidebook to the Gunnison Basin, visit www.gunnisonflyfish.com and take a look!

Gunnison Valley Small Stream Report-07/10/17

The big and brawling runoff season is finally on the wane and the small trout streams in the Gunnison Basin are fishing as well as they will fish all year long. The Gunnison Country is blessed to be home to several uber-productive creeks , with a few of the best being Cochetopa, Los Pinos, Saguache, Tomichi, Pauline, Fall, Cebolla, Ruby Anthracite and Anthracite Creeks. Some Gunnison Valley creeks host a surprising number of different species of trout, including the tiger trout pictured above, which I caught on a local creek about a week ago. Catching a tiger trout is always epic and there are a few locales in the Gunny Basin where you have a legit chance to find one. However, you are going to have to purchase the guidebook to learn where you can find a tiger trout or two, as some information is just too valuable to let go to just anyone. Other creeks host rare populations of wild rainbows, which have amazingly managed to thrive despite the ravages of whirling disease which have decimated rainbow populations across Colorado. If a small creek has wild ?bows they are normally some of the biggest and hardest fighting small stream trout you'll catch all year, so I love to target small creeks that are replete with a self-sustaining population of wild rainbow trout.

Currently, hatches of caddisflies, pale morning duns, red quills, green drakes and several species of stoneflies are keeping Gunnison Valley small stream trout looking up and gorging themselves while prey is abundant. While on occasion you may need to nymph in the cool of the morning on certain small streams, most notably Tomichi Creek, big dries such as a #12-14 Royal Stimulator, Royal Wulff, Parachute Adams, or Chubby Chernobyl will normally get the job done 9 times out of 10. If you get refusals on your large dry, downsize a size or two and most likely?problem solved.

Many fly aficionados like to employ a dry/dropper rig on diminutive fly waters this time of year, but I've come to prefer dead-drifting a small streamer instead. A small streamer provides anglers with one huge advantage on creeks over a dry/dropper, namely it affords you the ability to swing your fly underneath undercut banks, which is consistently where the biggest of the small stream trout will likely be lurking. Virtually all of my largest small stream trout are lured out from deep within an undercut bank, normally at a bend pool, with a leech pattern on the swing. Simply position yourself on the stream bank opposite of the undercut and cast your small streamer above the undercut and as close to the bank as possible. Let the fly dead-drift and be ready as the current carries your fly underneath the bank at the bend. And note, there are often a surprising number of good sized fish within a small area underneath an undercut bank. If you capture one, there are often several more targets nearby, especially on creeks where ?bows are present. My two favorite flies for this technique are a brown #16 Mayer?s Mini Leech (which is pictured above) and a #10 McCannel?s Hot Head Leech (which I obtain from RIGS Fly Shop in Ridgway, although one of the fly shops located closer to Gunnison may have them, but I'm not sure.) Kindly drop me an email if you know of a more local shop that stocks either of these leeches! Whatever you do don't waste the next 8 magical weeks of fly angling in the backcountry of the Gunnison Basin because the fly fishing is tremendous throughout the Gunnison Country right now.

See www.GunnisonFlyFish.com for more info about fly fishing in the Gunnison Valley!

If you're interested in fly fishing around Gunnison, Doug's book is an excellent resource.

Waygoner-
Thanks for the kind words about "Fly Fishing the Gunnison Country"...I appreciate it very much!

I had the good fortune of being able to get away from the grind yesterday and go fish my favorite river in Colorado...the Lake Fork of the Gunnison. It was running a bit higher than I like at 418 cfs but the color was Gunny Green, which is perfect.



I threw a #10 brown/black Pat's Rubberlegs trailed with a #16 Prince Nymph all day long...never had to change. My son threw a Parachute Adams all day and probably outfished me, although I hooked up with more big fish. For a summer day the river was relatively uncrowded and we fished the Thomas Ranch, tail end of High Bridge, Big Bend,the Big Eddy, and in Lake City at the confluence with Henson Creek, catching several dozen fish with the biggest being a 17" rainbow. Unfortunately, I got broke off (ran out of 4x and had to use 5x) about half a dozen times on big fish, which is about 6 more times than usual if I'm using 4x. Aside from getting humiliated by several big fish, the Lake Fork once again did not disappoint. What an awesome fishery.

LAST EDITED ON Apr-29-18 AT 06:49PM (MST)[p]LAST EDITED ON Apr-29-18 AT 06:46?PM (MST)

ttt for a great spring fly fishing season! If you need a guidebook to get you to the best Gunnison Valley fly waters, head to https://www.gunnisonflyfish.com!

I'll get back to fishing there when they stop screwing around with Cottonwood Pass.

The Black Canyon was great yesterday. One might say perfect.

Hasbean

Sure wish I was in the Black Canyon yesterday...what an amazing fishery.
















Author of "Fly Fishing the Gunnison Country
https://www.gunnisonflyfish.com

Would be nice if that website had an up to date fishing report.

LAST EDITED ON May-20-18 AT 07:04PM (MST)[p]I managed to find time to post up a brief Taylor River fly fishing report on my website if anyone is planning to visit the Gunny Basin in the next couple of weeks. Both the Gunnison and Taylor Rivers are fishable after a short run-off, but the Lake Fork is still pretty pushy.

Author of "Fly Fishing the Gunnison Country
https://www.gunnisonflyfish.com

We went down Warner Point Saturday for an in and out fishing trip. The weather was perfect and the fish were cooperative. We saw more rainbows than we had in a long time which is a very good sign.

The hike is brutal, especially if you do a one day in and out.

Hasbean

The perfect Christmas present for the Colorado fly fisher who has everything!

Author of "Fly Fishing the Gunnison Country
https://www.gunnisonflyfish.com

By the way, the winter fly fishing in the Gunnison Valley has been lights out! Now if we can just get some water for next year.

Author of "Fly Fishing the Gunnison Country
https://www.gunnisonflyfish.com