Southwest Fly Fishing
The Animas has been floatable since February making for fantastic winter and early spring fishing. The Juan has also been fishing well and we look forward to increased flows on this fishery this year. Mid March through April will offer great fishing opportunities on the Animas and upper San Juan before the run-off season in May muddies area waters for a couple weeks.

The Animas, San Juan, upper San Juan, Dolores and lakes are going to be a blast this early spring. Our upper San Juan trips will start as soon as flows will allow. Early June will mark the start of the Salmon Fly hatch and our action packed Rio Grande trips around Creede, CO. This is a reminder for all of you to get your dates on the calendar for these trips. Click the link to our site for more info. Animas Valley Anglers site

New-Hosted Adventure Travel!
We are extremely excited to offer two premier fly fishing destinations to our friends and clients. One adventure offers casting to monstrous steelhead in British Columbia on the Babine River and the other; wading shin deep in the warm tropical waters of Mexico at Casa Blanca Lodge casting to Bonefish, Tarpon and Permit.

We can set up hosted and non-hosted trips for solo anglers, fishing partners, groups and even families. Hosted trips are a lot of fun for us guides because we'll be on the adventure with you. If your schedule is too busy for one of our hosted weeks, but you would like to experience one of these great destinations, we can set it up for you. We'll help with gear needs, transportation and other details to ensure the perfect trip. There are set dates for the hosted trips and they will be posted on our destination page. Send us an e-mail or call (1-970-259-0484) for details and openings for these special trips.

Babine River Steelhead
The Babine is one of the best steelhead rivers in the world and Babine Norlakes Steelhead Camp happens to be smack dab in the middle of the home waters for these world class fish. Will is your host and has been fishing the Babine for a number of years. He knows all the ins and outs of the camp as well as the region. Spots are hard to come by, but there are a few weeks with openings. Click here for the Babine page for more info and rates.

Casa Blanca and Playa Blanca
Casa Blanca and Playa Blanca Lodges offers some of the best saltwater fly fishing in the world. Anglers will have numerous chances at Bones, Permit and Tarpon! This lodge is first class and caters to anglers of all ability levels. If you have always wanted to try your hand at saltwater fish on the fly, then this is the place for you. Click here for Casa Blanca Lodge info and rates.

A big thanks to all
our latest friends and clients who made it out over the past couple months. We have had some truly fantastic late winter and early spring fly fishing. Thanks Bob Meade of Casa Blanca Lodge, it was a pleasure to float the Animas with you. Also a special thanks to Dave Herbert and crew for three great days of angling. Kudos for their patience on their questionable air travels. Travel arrangements may have been a mess, but at least Will and Chris kept the boats upright and the fish on line. It is a good thing the airlines are not responsible for the boats and trout. Thanks Dave, Keith, Dell and Tony. Thanks to you all, what a great start to our season!

That's Right Folks...A Newsletter!
With all the hungry trout being caught this spring and all the new excitement brewing here at AvA, we thought we'd go ahead and make the effort to keep up with our friends and fatihfuls. So what better way to share news, fishing stories and new photos than a monthly newsletter? We certainly like to hear what's going on in your world's while we're out on the water, so we're going to try and send out a little something each month so you can see what we've been up to. Hopefully these monthly snippets won't be too much of a distraction, but should you find that we're clogging your in-box with unwanted fishing blogs, type us at e-mail message and we'll take you off the list. This is a new venture for us so any feedback on the newsletter will be much appreciated. We hope this finds you all well and anxiously awaiting the up-coming season.

Cheers,
Chris, Will, Josh, Marc, Rick, Ralph and Tim