Slowly But Surely

Slowly but surely the river is on the mend.  The water clarity is improving but from a distance, it still is pretty murky.  Fortunately, the river is getting more green, our normal spring color, than brown.  The guides are reporting good fishing and everyone is catching fish. There are good hatches in the afternoon;  blue…

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April Fishing

The San Juan River is on the mend from the storm that brought us the muddy cold water. The best flies to use right now are bunny leeches in black or white, flashy larva, pink orange or red.  Egg patterns.   Good midge and blue-winged olive hatches are occurring in the afternoons.  Flashback pheasant tails and midge patterns…

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The San Juan River is back!

“Where did it go?” you might say to yourself.  The San Juan River as we all know it, wasn’t the same for the past month.  Mid-March brought a perfect storm to the river:  the dam was being worked on, a snowstorm hit and rains washed all the snow away.  Since the outflow from the dam…

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Fun in the sun

The San Juan River is flowing at about 860 CFS. Midge fishing has been doing well through out the whole day. Midge larvae in grey, cream, olive, rusty brown and olive brown are working. Adult baetis are starting hatch in the later part of the day, but emerger patterns are still doing well. RS2 foam…

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Beautiful days with even more beautiful fish

It has been a beautiful July this year. The San Juan river is currently running between 920-930 CFS, and the fishing has been wonderful. With the hot weather on the sunny days, we’ve still received plenty of moisture with occasional afternoon thunderstorms.   Clients have been catching the most beautiful fish on all kinds of…

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FIVE ANT FALLS THIS YEAR?!?!

Yes, you did read that title correctly. We have had 5 ant falls this year and the fish are still eating ant patterns! Due to the recent thunderstorms we’ve been having, we have had another ant fall this week, making that the 5th ant fall this summer. Not only are the fish hitting ants, but…

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4th of July Weekend

  ANTS AND PMDS!!   Recently this past weekend, we have had two ant falls from a couple of thunderstorms.  We’ve also seen a few adult bugs appear above the water lately. Hopper fishing is getting good, sizes 4-10 are working. Midge larvae fishing has been doing well still, smaller sizes, 20-24, are doing best,…

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June Fishing

The San Juan River flow is now at 500cfs. Midge fishing has been good all day, green machine, black and red  as well as grey and red big mac, crystal flash midge in size 20-24 have all worked well throughout the day. Bateis patterns are starting to fish well chocolate and grey foam wings and…

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Summertime Fun!

  The San Juan River flow is now at 650cfs. Midge fishing has been good all day, green machine, black and red big mac, crystal flash midge in size 20-24 have all worked well throughout the day. Bateis patterns are starting to fish well chocolate and grey foam wings and juju bateis in size 20-24.…

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May San Juan River Fishing Report

May fly fishing on the San Juan River has been very good even though the water levels have fluctuated. Anglers have caught some big browns in the past couple of weeks.  One 31 inch brown was caught twice.  He is fat and healthy.  We are not going to have high water this year so anglers…

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