Fly Fishing the Colorado River in November
Instead of trying to convince you that winter fishing is a waste of time because it is cold, the there or no size #6 dry flies and the fish don’t bite. I will just describe my day on the Colorado this past weekend with my brother from Georgia. You decide if it interests you.
My brother from Georgia came to visit us with his wife. He always likes to go Trout Fishing with me when he is here. He only fishes when he comes here and only visits 1 time per year. Needless to say he is not quite an expert at the sport, but he is trying hard.
We left Boulder about 7:30am for a 2 hour drive to Hot Sulphur Springs Colorado. We arrived at the parking lot about 10 am to suite in a steady 25 mile an hour wind. We walk into the river valley along the river among the trees. The temperature was about 45 degrees. The trees and valley protected us from the wind. I took about 15 minutes to figure out what was biting. We hooked up our 1st double of the day on Barr’s Emerger and small Rs-2′s. We worked that area for about 2 hours.
We moved up into the Williams Fork Valley after lunch. We started above the confluence to pick up a few nice fish. We worked up above the old beaver dam hole. From there it was fish after fish. The small rainbows were 14″ and largest Browns were near 20″ . 
I love this time of year in the high country. The water is clear, crowds are non existant, the German Brown Trout are spawning, the Rainbow Trout are feeding on the eggs in the water and they are all trying to get fat for the winter.
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