October Store Hours + A Short River Report

October Stores Hours

8:00am - 4:30pm

Monday thru Friday

8:00am - 4:00pm

Saturday

8:00am - 12:00pm

Sunday

The fishing on the Conejos has been pretty good lately. Troy and Jon were both out on half day trips today and they both had productive days on the water. Troy guided this lower river and caught most of his fish on nymphs. While Jon guided the upper river and they caught most of there fish on dry flies (big old school Jim Fulton style H&L Variants) who knew.

Guide Trips the Past Few Days

The leaves are starting to change color and fall is in the air. We have had a great couple of days guiding this last week and we are hoping to keep the momentum going right into the later part of this fall. The trout have really started to get happy in the past week and the Pike have started to turn on with this cooler weather. Below are a couple of the pics from the guide trips we had this last week. I hope that you all enjoy and get pumped for fishing this fall.

Nice Rainbow Headshot

Eugene with a Great Rainbow

Fat Rainbow

Eugene with another nice Rainbow

Eugene Percell with a Monster 28+ inch Rainbow

Landed on 5x

Nice work BROTHA!!!

Gotta Love Pike in the Fall

Bill with a Nice Browny

Nice Work!! The Kids are the Future!!

Jon Harp got to spend a day with an amazing young angler late this last month and I just thought that I would share a couple of pictures from there day on the water together.

Early June

CRA Guides Jon Harp, Troy Smith and Jasmine Ence

talking with there clients about the plan of attack for the day.

Big Stonefly Dries

(GETTING EXCITED YET!!)

Got Jimmy's?

This morning we had our first real brush with summer. It is a beautiful blue bird day with no wind and a shop full of clients anticipating a great day on the water with the CRA Guides. The water level is up but the fishing has been great. These Conejos fish get extremley wormy this time of year. Yes, that means fish puking up worms in the net "I just couldn't help myself" says Mr. Brown Trout "It just looked to good to pass up" says Mrs. Brown Trout. Any way it is time to start really thinking about Southern Colorado.

I know that we are all looking forward to what is coming in the next couple of weeks.... SALMONFLIES!!!!! We are all ready to see those B-52's flying over the water and I know that you all are looking forward to making some casts to some hungry trout waiting to ambush a struggling stone. With the snow pack being what it was this year we are looking forward to some fantastic dry fly fishing this season.