Fishing the Gunnison Drainage out of Crested Butte, Colorado on the Taylor River, Gunnison River, and East River.

As we approach the first of May we are finally getting warm enough to see water flows rise and become off-color! Run-off will begin to limit choices in our area for productive fishing.
The flows that are being released out of Taylor reservoir are cloase to 400 cfs and this is higher than normal at this time of year. Fishing will definitely benefit as we are seeing great days on all sections of the Taylor. Blue winged olive hatches are becoming frequent on the Taylor creating dry fly possibilities. Daily hatches on the Catch & Release section of the Taylor cna be quite exciting as very nice brown trout will show interest in the properly presented small dry fly. The Gunnison river has become off-colored with warmer weather, yet clears considerably when a cold front moves through. Nymph & streamer fishing has been good on the Gunnison. Flows around Almont were between 700-900 cfs in late April. Flows will flucuate greatly depending on the weather. Our guided floats have been very good to this point.

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Here we are in late-April and 2007-2008 can definitely be considered a BIG snow year!!! The Gunnison drainage is currently sitting between 130-145 % of normal snow pack. What does that mean for fishing??? Water, water and more water.

We will see a bigger than average run-off this spring as we hope for a gradual warm up to start immediately. March and April are crucial months in how they bring us warmer weather or continued winter. Stay tuned for our run-off forecast.

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