Fly fishing in Colorado.
Live flows, rules, access maps and nearby guides.
- 82waters
- 40with a live gauge
- 81designated

Photo credit
The Roaring Fork River in Basalt, Colorado. Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
82 fly-fishing waters in Colorado have a page here, 37 with a live USGS flow gauge and 80 with an official agency designation (such as Catch and release or Special-regulation trout water).
More about Colorado
31 fly-fishing guides and 79 fly shops in Colorado are listed, unclaimed unless marked. Destination hubs: Estes Park & Rocky Mountain National Park, Durango & the San Juan, Deckers & the South Platte and Basalt, the Roaring Fork & the Fryingpan.
83 watersShowing 1–60
- Roaring Fork RiverFreestone river · Gold Medal Water · Featured sport-fishing water · live flow
- Colorado RiverFreestone river · Gold Medal Water · Featured sport-fishing water · live flow
- Blue RiverTailwater · Gold Medal Water · Featured sport-fishing water · live flow
- South Platte RiverTailwater · Gold Medal Water · Featured sport-fishing water · live flow
- Taylor RiverTailwater · Gold Medal Water · Featured sport-fishing water · live flow
- Rio GrandeFreestone river · Gold Medal Water · Featured sport-fishing water
- Fryingpan RiverTailwater · Gold Medal Water · Special-regulation trout water · live flow
- Gunnison RiverTailwater · Gold Medal Water · Special-regulation trout water · live flow
- Arkansas RiverFreestone river · Gold Medal Water · Special-regulation trout water · live flow
- Yampa RiverTailwater · Featured sport-fishing water · Catch and release · live flow
- Eagle RiverFreestone river · Featured sport-fishing water · Special-regulation trout water · live flow
- Dolores RiverFreestone river · Featured sport-fishing water · Catch and release · live flow
- Conejos RiverFreestone river · Featured sport-fishing water · Fly-fishing only
- North Platte RiverFreestone river · Gold Medal Water · Special-regulation trout water · live flow
- Animas RiverFreestone river · Gold Medal Water · Special-regulation trout water · live flow
- Cache la Poudre RiverFreestone river · Catch and release · Special-regulation trout water · live flow
- Uncompahgre RiverTailwater · Featured sport-fishing water · Catch and release · live flow
- North Fork Cache la Poudre RiverTailwater · Featured sport-fishing water · Catch and release · live flow
- Big Thompson RiverFreestone river · Catch and release · live flow
- Gore CreekFreestone river · Gold Medal Water · Special-regulation trout water · live flow
- Middle Fork South Platte RiverFreestone river · Gold Medal Water · Special-regulation trout water
- Spinney Mountain ReservoirLake or reservoir · Gold Medal Water · Special-regulation trout water
- San Juan RiverFreestone river · Special-regulation trout water · live flow
- Blue Mesa ReservoirLake or reservoir · Featured sport-fishing water · Special-regulation trout water
- Kelly LakeLake or reservoir · Featured sport-fishing water · Special-regulation trout water
- Lake GranbyLake or reservoir · Featured sport-fishing water · Special-regulation trout water
- Lake JohnLake or reservoir · Featured sport-fishing water · Special-regulation trout water
- Taylor Park ReservoirLake or reservoir · Featured sport-fishing water · Special-regulation trout water · lake level
- Rio GrandeFreestone river · Special-regulation trout water · live flow
- St. Vrain CreekFreestone river · Catch and release · live flow
- White RiverFreestone river · Catch and release · Special-regulation trout water · live flow
- South Fork South Platte RiverFreestone river · Catch and release · Special-regulation trout water
- Wolf CreekFreestone river · Catch and release · Special-regulation trout water
- Los Pinos RiverFreestone river · Special-regulation trout water · live flow
- Piedra RiverFreestone river · Catch and release · live flow
- Steamboat LakeLake or reservoir · Gold Medal Water
- Elk RiverFreestone river · Featured sport-fishing water · live flow
- Boss Lake ReservoirLake or reservoir · Featured sport-fishing water
- Boyd LakeLake or reservoir · Featured sport-fishing water
- Douglas ReservoirLake or reservoir · Featured sport-fishing water
- Echo Canyon ReservoirLake or reservoir · Featured sport-fishing water
- Elkhead ReservoirLake or reservoir · Featured sport-fishing water
- Frantz LakeLake or reservoir · Featured sport-fishing water
- Joe Wright CreekTailwater · Special-regulation trout water · live flow
- John Martin ReservoirLake or reservoir · Featured sport-fishing water
- Martin LakeLake or reservoir · Featured sport-fishing water
- Miramonte ReservoirLake or reservoir · Featured sport-fishing water
- Rifle Gap ReservoirLake or reservoir · Featured sport-fishing water · lake level
- South Arkansas RiverFreestone river · Featured sport-fishing water
- Vallecito ReservoirLake or reservoir · Featured sport-fishing water
- Boulder CreekFreestone river · Catch and release · live flow
- Cochetopa CreekFreestone river · Catch and release · live flow
- West Fork Clear CreekFreestone river · Catch and release · live flow
- Snake RiverFreestone river · live flow
- Archuleta CreekFreestone river · Catch and release · nearby gauge
- Cold CreekFreestone river · Catch and release
- Culebra CreekFreestone river · Catch and release
- Duck CreekFreestone river · Catch and release
- Forbes Park LakeLake or reservoir · Catch and release
- Jones CreekFreestone river · Catch and release
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About the Colorado list
About this
82 Colorado rivers, creeks, lakes and flats with a page: each with its official agency designations and their source, live USGS flow where a gauge exists, the state’s regulations and access map, and the guides and shops nearby. Waters that cross into Colorado from a neighbouring state are included.
A Colorado water is here because the state agency lists it under an official designation, because guides and shops in our directories name it on their own websites, or because a live USGS gauge sits on a river a guide names. Species appear only where an agency page states them. “Most fished first” ranks by designations and by how many guide and shop websites name the water.
