Fly fishing in Colorado.

Live flows, rules, access maps and nearby guides.

  • 82waters
  • 40with a live gauge
  • 81designated
The Roaring Fork River in Basalt in autumn, with golden cottonwoods along the bank
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).

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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.

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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.

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