Latest Update: 8/10/2026

High Country:

The high-country lakes across Colorado have been fishing well and have really turned on in the last few weeks. Dry flies have been a very productive approach for fish that are cruising drop offs or hunting on flats. Leeches and chironomids have also been finding success when the dry fly bite slows down. Mixing it up with a dry dropper using an ant or beetle with a chironomid pattern underneath is not a bad idea at all either this time of year.

If you're headed to the high country and have any further questions, whether its about bugs or the status of a specific area don't hesitate to give either shop a call.

Stillwater trout:

Warmer days and high sun have started to bring the weeds out at a number of the lower elevation trout fisheries, like the Laramie plains lakes and Delaney Buttes. With fish starting to cruise these weed lines in search of baitfish and bugs, fishing leech patterns or chironomids can find lots of success at these lakes when the weeds start to build up. With these warmer temps and weeds coming up well don't be afraid to mix in some callibaetis or terrestrial dry flies at the end of the day when the bugs become more active and the fish start to rise.

Local Warmwater:

The local ponds and reservoirs in Colorado have had plenty of time to warm up which has made many of the species that call these fisheries home happy. The high sun and consistently warm temperatures have resulted in a lot of weeds starting to shoot up which gives species like bass, walleye and panfish plenty of cover to hunt from. Fishing poppers through breaks in surface weeds or fishing baitfish patterns along these weeds can be an extremely effective approach for warmwater species when they start calling weeds home. These same weeds also provide a great wealth of food for carp to feed on like Damsel flies, Leeches or Crawfish, looking for carp that are face down on weed patches that have been pushed up onto flats this time of year is not a bad way to go about searching for these fish.

Feel free to give either shop a call or swing by to get some more info on Stillwater fishing.