Rio
Grande
float trips
Animas Valley Anglers
offers float trips on the legendary Rio Grande River in the Creede
and South
Fork Colorado areas. This is a larger river with mostly mellow waters
making it a comfortable float from the raft or drift boat. This
river flows through some incredible country and its simply a blast to
fish.
We
offer float trips on several sections of river near
Creede, Colorado covering 20 plus river miles as well
as a couple sections starting just north of South Fork
and heading down stream 15 river miles toward Monte
Vista.
the
trout
On any given day an angler can expect to see several of the Rio's plentiful
mid-sized brown trout move to the fly. The average fish is around 14
inches while fish in the 16 to 18 inch range are not uncommon. There
are also
some very nice bows that live in the Rio. Check out Bob's Rio Grande rainbow.
The Rio does have some monsters lurking about, but this river is really
about the sheer number of fish to the fly. When the hatch is thick and
the fish are on, each angler can see well over 50 fish to the fly.
Do
you like casting dries? Good, because the Rio is primarily
a dry fly river, but the streamer fishing can be excellent
early and late season. There are a couple guides (mostly
Will) who fishes bass-style poppers when the Rio brownies
are aggressive on streamers.
the
day
Many of our fishing guests will stay in historic Creede
Colorado. This small mining town has not changed much in the
past hundred years and is the hub for most of our trips on the
Rio. Most guide days start around 8:30 and after we run the shuttle,
we fish from 9 or 9:30 to 5 or 6 in the evening. After a long
day on the water we'll clean up and head for dinner at the Creede
Hotel were Dave Toole and his staff put on a five star meal.
After dinner some guests will turn in, while others like to check
out the Creede Repertory Theater or enjoy spirits at one of the
watering holes were tales of the days fishing can be heard over
a game of billiards. |
