General Conditions ~ Stream Conditions ~ Water Temperature
Hatches ~ Fly Patterns ~ Additional Comments
July 1, 2009
Everything that looks like a lake is full, full, full on the drainage. Municipalities are moving water instead of losing it over spillways and it is raining heavily in the high country. All that together makes a big water sandwich. There is still a little snow to melt and as soon as the inflows into reservoirs go down, then flow on the river will also go down. We'll see how many days that takes. If you want to fish edges, go ahead but be very careful of manuvering around obsticles. Water upstream of Buena Vista has better edge clarity, but it is high as well. Be patient, when this comes down it is likely to drop like a rock. The fish will respond insanely.
Lots and lots of adult Stonefly activity with a #10 0r #12 adult Golden Stone and Yellow Sallies in a #16. Great patterns are #10 PMX in Yellow, #10 Yellow Stimulator, #16 Yellow Stimulator, #16 Yellow Humpy, #16 Rubberleg Gold Ice, #16 Yellow Sallie nymph and #16 High Voltage in orange/yellow. Slack water pockets along shorelines are the best locations for fish. If you are wade fishing, pay close attention to the outside current seam and don't get in it. Just work the edge water about knee deep.
2630cfs Wellsville......18 inches of clarity with turbid middle current
REMEMBER: If you want to see flow rates on all sections of the river plus localized reports, go to our INTERACTIVE ARKANSAS RIVER MAP link at the top of the page. This is a big river and there is no such thing as a cookie cutter report.
50s
Caddis,Stoneflies, Yellow Sallies
Elk Hair Caddis, Yellow PMXs, Yellow Stimulators 10/16, Royal Wulffs, Humpies, Trudes, Gold Ice, Puterbaugh's Golden Stone, Dead Stone, Yellow Hoppers, Joe's Hopper, Rubber Leg Gold Ice. Go to our Fly Pattern Recipes page
Come enjoy the newly redone water along the Canon City riverwalk from 9th to Raynolds. The DOW, in conjunction with the Fin Up corporation, the Canon City Rec District, local businesses and three surrounding TU chapters have rehabilitated over 1.5 miles of river with boulder placements and woody shoreline structure. This could become some of the best water around if we continue to treat it right. Become it's friend.......
Current fishing conditions on other Rocky Mountain waters:
