4/26/2008
|
Brian
|
San Juan
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WINDY!! Hard to keep
the boat in position. Sometimes hard to keep the boat from going
upstream! Fishing was decent, probably boated ten. Wade
fishing is much better.
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50's sunny and windy
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10/25/2007
|
Brian
|
San Juan
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Great BWO Baetis
Mayfly hatch! One of the largest Mayfly hatches I've seen on the
San Juan. Great fishing good action.
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Beautifull sunny
lower to mid 70's
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8/10/2007
|
Brian
|
San Juan
|
Bi-Fly tournment
with my buddy Chef "the fly fishing man" Michael and ran the
show. Chef did very well with black semi seal fur streamer and
comparadun dry fly.
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hot 90+ and sunny
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8/7/2007
|
Jeff
|
Hermosa Creek
|
great fishing,
smaller fish but lots of them.
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Beautiful 80's and
sunny
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8/6/2007
|
Matt
|
Lime Creek
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Excellent fishing
all day long. Lots of fish but smaller in size 8-10 inch
average. Lots of Brookies.
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Great sunny and 80's
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8/5/2007
|
Brian
|
Pine River
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Good consistent
fishing all day on Caddis and Mayfly nymphs. Couple of good fish
in the afternoon around 19-20 inches
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Nice low 80's
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8/4/2007
|
Brian
|
San Juan below dam
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Slow morning but
excellent fishing in the afternoon. Caught lots of fish on dry
flies in the afternoon. Parachute adams size 20-18
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partly cloudy and
nice
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8/3/2007
|
Brian
|
Pine River
|
Good fishing,
beautiful river and day. Good fish caught on Caddis and Mayfly
nymphs
|
great mid 80's
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7/29/2007
|
Brian
|
San Juan
|
Morning half
day. Great morning fishing. One client in boat that landed
seven nice size fish before lunch. Gray scintilla (sz 24) and
gray flash midge (sz 24).
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Great, partly cloudy
around 80's
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7/28/2007
|
Brian, Matt
and Steve
|
San Juan
|
Good fishing all day
long. On small midges the switching to small mayflies in the
afternoon
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Nice mid to upper
80's
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7/26/2007
|
Brian
|
Pine River Private
|
Good fishing nothing
too big but several nice fish in the 13-16" class
|
Partly cloudy then
thunderstorm around 3:00pm
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7/24/2007
|
Brian
|
San Juan
|
Good consistant fish
all day long.
|
Nice partly cloudy
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7/23/2007
|
Brian and Chip
|
Pine River private
below dam
|
Good fishing.
All three clients had BIG fish on but could not land. Caddis
nymphs all day long
|
Nice mid 80's partly
cloudy
|
7/22/2007
|
Brian, Aaron and
Steve
|
San Juan
|
Slower morning but
afternoon was incredible. Baetis mayfies cam off after lunch and
the fish went crazy for them. Every other cast we have a fish on,
multilpe doubles in the boat.
|
Nice partly cloudy
in the morning then overcast after lunch.
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7/21/2007
|
Brian, Aaron and
Steve
|
San Juan
|
See below.
Better fishing today because of same techniques on the 20th.
|
High 80's partly
cloudy
|
7/20/2007
|
Brian, Aaron
and Steve
|
San Juan
|
Slow fishing in the
morning but picked up after lunch. In the morning the fish seem
to be on larva patterns in cream and tan. Small midge with flash
in size 22-24 in black and gray. Afternoons fish are feeding on
midge pupa and baetis nymphs and dries
|
Hot high 80's and
sunny
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7/19/2007
|
Brian
|
Los pinos (pine)
|
Poor, tough time
landing fish. Did not fish well
|
nice until 3pm the
thunderstorm.
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7/18/2007
|
Brian
|
Animas
|
Poor, very slow
fishing. Southern Ute Indian Tribe has been shocking the river
for fish count
|
hot 90's
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7/17/2007
|
Brian, Chip and Chris
|
San Juan
|
Good for some bad
for others. Though fishing. 6x and lots of break offs
|
Hot 100's
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7/16/2007
|
Brian and chip
|
Florida River
|
Poor fishing some
fish caught on grasshoppers
|
nice until 3pm then
rain
|
7/14/2007
|
Steve
|
Los pinos (pine
river)
|
Awesome 22 fish
landed some over twenty prince nymph and mercers
|
nice 80's
|
7/14/2007
|
Brian
|
Animas
|
good dry dropper.
Chernobyle ant and caddis dropper
|
hot 90's
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7/13/2007
|
Brian
|
Los pinos (pine)
|
Awesome, lots of
fish and a few around twenty inches
|
nice until 3pm then
showers
|
7/12/2007
|
Chip
|
San Juan
|
Ant Fall, dries all
day excellent fishing
|
Hot lower 100's
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7/11/2007
|
Aaron
|
Hermosa
|
Good, fish were
spooky
|
good lower 80's
|
7/11/2007
|
Brian
|
Animas
|
Couple fish with
Caddis started to see PMD's coming off
|
nice-mid 80's
|
7/10/2007
|
Aaron
|
Animas
|
Good fishing with
caddis dries and emergers
|
nice mid 80's
|
7/10/2007
|
Brian
|
Los Pinos
|
Awesome, lots of
fish and big several over twenty
|
Beautiful partly
cloudy
|
7/9/2007
|
Matt, Chris, Aaron
|
San Juan
|
Good, Dry fly action
with ants and parachute adams
Midge clusters
|
Hot and sunny
|
7/6/2007
|
Chip
|
San Juan
|
Excellent, foam
wings and black crystal midge
|
Nice but hot
|
7/5/2007
|
Brian
|
Upper San
Juan-Private
|
Good
|
Good
|
7/4/2007
|
Brian and Steve
|
Animas
|
Afternoon and
evening float. Excellent dry fly action with Caddis. CDC
Caddis, Elk Hair and Klinkhammers
|
Nice 70's
|
7/4/2007
|
Brian
|
Lower Pine morning
then upper Florida afternoon
|
Tough wading the
Pine. So we moved to the Upper Florida and fished
excellent. Caddis dries, Stimulators, Ants on top and Pheasant
tail droppers
|
Nice then cloudy
80's
|
7/3/07
|
Brian
|
Upper San
Juan-Private
|
Good
|
Good
|
7/2/2007
|
Brian
|
Upper San
Juan-Private
|
Good
|
Good
|
7/1/2007
|
Brian
|
San Juan
|
Good fishing.
Nymphing all day long. Small black and gray midges sz 24.
Fish were tough because of increased pressure. But if you fished
were others weren't then the fishing was good.
|
Hot upper 90/100's
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6/28/07
|
Brian
|
San Juan
|
Full day
float. Lowered the River today to 750 cfs and fished
excellent. Some fish on gray midges then switched to dries.
Ant flowed by parachute adams or midge cluster. Lots of fish
caught on dries. You have to find the risers
|
Hot 90's clear
|
6/26/07
|
Brian
|
San Juan
|
Half day floating
Texas Hole. Constant action, fishing very good with gray midges
good flow 1,200 cfs
|
Hot 90's
|
6/25/07
|
Brian
|
Animas
|
Caddis dries with
dropper (emerging caddis) good fishing
|
nice 80's
|
6/25/2007
|
Chip
|
Hermosa
|
Catching nice
Brookies on dries. Good small black stonefly hatch
|
partly cloudy mid
70's
|
6/24/2007
|
Brian
|
Animas
|
Early morning
fishing. Started off slow until 10:00am
Caught good fish on emerging caddis nymphs under a dry.
|
partly cloudy, windy
but nice mid 70's
|
6/23/2007
|
Brian
|
Animas
|
Afternoon fishing,
Caddis were coming off thick and rising. Caught some good browns
on CDC Caddis dries.
|
Nice mid 80's
|
6/1/2007
|
Brian, Chip, Aaron
|
San Juan
|
Good fishing great
flow at 1200 cfs.
Nymphing with midges, lots of fish.
|
nice low 80's partly
cloudy
|
5/29/2007
|
Brian
|
San Juan
|
Hard fishing with
stream flows high. Found pods of fish in calmer water. Once
you find fish stay there because there are probably more in
there. Good luck with worms and leeches.
|
mid 60's and cloudy
|
4/14/2007
|
Brian
|
San Juan
|
Took the Forbes out
and had a great day!! Fun couple and good fisherman. Good
fishing. Nymphing with midges
|
Nice 60's
|
7/17/2006
|
Brian and Chip
|
San Juan
|
Texas Hole with
family of four. Everybody did great and loved it.
|
Hot low 100's
|
7/16/2006
|
Brian and Chip
|
San Juan
|
Great fishing in the
Texas Hole. 1/2 day lots of fish
|
Hot low 90's
|
7/15/2006
|
Steve
|
Aniimas
|
Good fishing with
streamers and dry/dropper rig
|
80's and nice
|
7/14/2006
|
Steve
|
Pine
|
Great
afternoon/evening fishing
|
70's
|
7/14/2006
|
Brian
|
Animas
|
Fished private water
and it was excellent lots of fish nymphing with PMD's and Midges
|
Great low 80's
|
7/13/2006
|
Brian
|
Los Pinos (Pine
River)
|
Best day on the Pine
since the fire. Lots of great fish all day long on micro mayflys
|
beautiful low 80's
|
7/12/2006
|
Brian
|
San Juan
|
Texas Hole drift all
day, lots of fish nymphing
|
good 80's
|
7/11/2006
|
Brian
|
Hermosa
|
Trip through Don
Oliver, great fishing with dries. Smaller fish but beautiful
looking fish (8-13 inch)
|
Great until
afternoon storm
|
7/10/2006
|
Brian
|
San Juan
|
Texas hole fishing
all day with lots of fish landed all good size 13-19 inch
|
Nice partly cloudy
80's
|
7/9/2006
|
Brian
|
Los pinos (Pine
River)
|
The Pine is back and
fishing great. Nice fish (12-16 inch) great fighters
|
Beautiful afternoon
|
7/8/2006
|
Amy
|
Animas
|
Fun trip with
National Fly Fishing organizer Bob Bush. Bob missed a lot of fish
and I had to show him how it was done. I caught and landed ten
nice fish on dry dropper rig
|
Great afternoon
weather
|
7/7/2006
|
Brian
|
San Juan
|
Three clients in the
boat with two kids. But great fishing, kids did extremely
well. Each landed six fish
|
Hot, high 80's and
sunny
|
7/5/2006
|
Brian and Chip
|
San Juan
|
Excellent! Lots of
fish nymphing
|
High 80's
|
7/3/2006
|
Brian and Chip
|
Animas
|
Good fishing with
chernoble ants and droppers
|
Good low 80's
|
7/1/2006
|
Chip
|
Animas
|
Great fishing
|
Nice, partly cloudy
|
6/30/06
|
Brian
|
San Juan
|
Texas Hole-All day
long. Some of the best fishing yet.
Great success, Foam wings. Well over twenty landed
|
Nice high 80's
|
6/25/2006
|
Brian
|
Animas
|
Lower Animas, Great
fishing again. Won't last much longer unless we get rain.
|
Partly cloudy, 80's
|
6/23/2006
|
Brian
|
San Juan
|
Good fishing, lots
of people. Fish started to feed around 10:00am
|
Hot, 90's
|
6/22/2006
|
Brian
|
Animas
|
Personal trip,
floated lower Animas River. Great fishing LARGE fish on
Dry/Dropper
|
Nice, 80's
|
6/20 & 6/21 2006
|
Brian
|
San Juan
|
Excellent river
flows 500cfs. Great fishing not too many people
|
Hot, low 90's
|
6/19/2006
|
Brian
|
Animas
|
Fish are full.
Have eaten so many Caddis that their stomachs are three times the
normal size. Good for the fish but not for fishing. Caught
several fish on droppers.
|
80's and nice
|
6/15/2006
8:00-1:00pm
|
Brian
|
Animas
|
Nice fish caught on
dry flies. Caddis females are laying eggs and the fish are taking
them and spent ones.
|
Partly Cloudy,
perfect
|
6/14/2006
6:00-8:30pm
|
Brian
|
Animas
|
Great fishing,
caddis dries all evening.
|
partly cloud, very
nice
|
6/13/2006 7:00-8:30pm
|
Brian
|
Animas
|
Caddis are at the
peak of their hatch. So many Caddis insects that we were eating
em. Lots of nice fish caught on dries. Daniels' Foam
Caddis, X-Caddis AWESOME!!
The Caddis Company is now offering evening dry fly float trips.
6:00-8:30pm $150 Book Now River flows won't last long
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|
Prefect
|
6/13/2006
|
Brian
|
San Juan
|
Great fishing,
higher flows but very clear. Caught fish nymphing with long
leader and lots of weight. Streamer fishing was very productive
as well. Flies-Rainbow warroir, Red larva, Foam wing emerger and
Egans Red bugger.
|
Beautiful, couldn't
have asked for better weather. Partly cloudy 80-90 degrees.
|
| 1/10/2006 |
Brian |
Animas |
Fished warmest part of day 1:00pm-4:00pm. Nice
Midge hatch, no fish on top but caught fish in larger/deeper holes. |
Sunny and warm 50-55 degrees |
| 1/1/2006 |
Brian |
Pine River |
Beautiful day, slow fishing.
The water is too cold. No fish |
sunny and nice, allitle windy |
| 12/28/2005 |
Brian |
San Juan |
Good fishing. Smaller hatch. Nice weater(60
degrees) and sunny. Fish caught with princesses and wooly buggers |
Beautiful sunny |
| 12/26/2005 |
Brian |
San Juan |
Good day of fishing. Nice weater. Good hatches,
baetis/midge. Reservoir has turned causing low visiablity. Lots of fish
caught on Eggs and Baetis foam wings |
55-60 degrees partly cloudy |
| 12/25/2005 |
Brian |
Animas |
Basin Creek Southern Ute Access.
Lots of fish-30+
Most of them stockers, are stacked up together. Some nice Browns and a
couple good Bows. Pheasant Tails sz 14-12. Caddis Pupa and Princes |
Sunny and warm |
| 11/12/2005 |
Brian |
San Juan |
Good sizable fish were taking baetis dries ALL
DAY LONG |
Cloudy overcast |
| 10/5/2005 |
Brian |
Animas |
Excellent fishing, prince, pheasant tails, hoppers |
good |
| 7/17/2005 |
Steve |
Piedra |
fished the Piedra in the morning - while it's
still cool out. Great dry fly opportunities. Elk hair Caddis,
Stimulators and droppers were right on. |
still cool out in th morning- but it'll be hot tod |
| 7/9/2005 |
Brian |
Piedra |
River has gone down and is clear, good fishing
with Streamers and nymph rigs. Caddis and Stoneflies |
Clear and nice |
| 7/8/2005 |
Brian |
Animas |
Fished excellent with Caddis and dropper(Copper
John, Prince, and Caddis emerger) Fish starting to move from banks into
holding water |
sunny and nice, allitle windy |
