Published on: July 26, 2023
Pull out your magnifiers, knock the dust off your light tippet. Grab your smallest hooks and finest thread. "The fisherman's curse" etc . and so forth. Tricos are here! All the funny sayings and expressions aside, the Trico is a long awaited bug, comes off in numbers on the Eagle River and is a favorite […]
Published on: July 23, 2023
Not fishing company of course but wonderful companions. My wonderful wife and child as well as our 4 legged kiddo, Maggie, hit East Brush Creek up by Yeoman Park on the south end of Eagle, CO. If you end up at Sylvan Lake, you made a wrong turn! The weather was perfect as was the […]
Published on: July 15, 2023
Afternoons have been great on the Eagle River through at the bottom of Beaver Creek these days. Richard and Conner and |I had a grand ol' time with a family of six in town celebrating a wedding dress choice and family visit! Only exception... the dogs had to come along. It was not hard to […]
Published on: July 10, 2023
We were graced to have a crew of 11 people from Texas come fish with is today and boy were they fun and eager. Glad we left the Red Bulls at home because most of our clients were between 11 and 14 years old ha. All first timers, these guys learned quick and got some […]
Published on: July 8, 2023
Fishing right now is silly good on the eagle river from Minturn to Gypsum. We are experiencing yellow sallies, many sizes and colors of caddis and a few sizes of PMD mayflies, not to mention sparse mahogany duns, golden stones and the morning midges as well! Water temps are prime for fish looking up and […]
Published on: July 5, 2023
Boy things are beginning to turn on. Throw out the idea that “the early bird gets the worm”. As long as the water temps are this good (45-52 degrees) sleep in, enjoy the morning and pop in where there’s room because there are hungry fish in the Beaver Creek area that want to eat your […]
Published on: June 27, 2023
We took 3 old friends on the Eagle River today and boy were they a hoot. These three gentlemen all went to school growing up together and have been friends for most of their 73 years. One moved away to Washington but still gets a good hang with his homies every year on the water. […]
Published on: June 23, 2023
Water levels are high! It is about 2500 CFS down in Gypsum. Visibility from Rittenhouse down to Duckpond clearly wasn’t that bad, probably 2 to 3 feet of clarity. Not a lot of bugs coming off though. We tried streamers for the first half of our float trip and didn’t turn into too many trout. […]
Published on: June 23, 2023
Today was a fun one for Eagle River Outfitter. We had a crew of 30 guests throughout the day and an awesome crew of Vail fly fishing guides. Big thanks to Sage Outdoor Adventures and Colorado Angling Company for helping us in the morning and afternoon and helping to put our guests on fish! The […]
Published on: June 21, 2023
What a fun day for Jeff and his 12-year-old daughter, Allie. With some flexibility in their daddy/daughter vacation, These two opted for an afternoon on the Eagle River and it was in their best interest. We fished up-valley in Avon and the water was in the low 50s and we experienced all sorts of bug […]
