From: 03/14/2015
To: 03/14/2015
Type of Water: Freshwater
Species: Rainbow trout, Brown trout
Spring Has Sprung in the High Country!
Spring Break is in full swing now at the Wolf Creek Ski Area, but we are still fishing on the Lower San Juan River with both wade and float trips and when the conditions permit on the upper San Juan at Sunset Ranch and thru the town stretch. Most days in the spring the temperatures in Pagosa are 35 – 50 degrees. So if you come to town and are not going skiing, lets go fishing.
The fishing below the dam has been good with some bigtime midge hatches from mid – morning on, and the water clarity is getting better every day. The lake has stopped turning and the greenish color of the river will soon be gone. The one good thing about dirty water is that the fish can’t see us either and we can use some larger flies than we typically use on the View more...Spring Has Sprung in the High Country!
Spring Break is in full swing now at the Wolf Creek Ski Area, but we are still fishing on the Lower San Juan River with both wade and float trips and when the conditions permit on the upper San Juan at Sunset Ranch and thru the town stretch. Most days in the spring the temperatures in Pagosa are 35 – 50 degrees. So if you come to town and are not going skiing, lets go fishing.
The fishing below the dam has been good with some bigtime midge hatches from mid – morning on, and the water clarity is getting better every day. The lake has stopped turning and the greenish color of the river will soon be gone. The one good thing about dirty water is that the fish can’t see us either and we can use some larger flies than we typically use on the Lower Juan. Now that it is getting clearer we can get back to the sight fishing that we all love on the Lower Juan. The snow pack in the last few weeks has changed greatly. The Ski Area had over 100 inches of snow in 10 days, and if we get a few more storms we might get lucky and have enough water in Navajo Lake for a few days of flushing the river out with flows around 5,000 cfs. It has been a few years since we had enough water to flush the river.
