With runoff in full effect, it’s lake time for trout, bass, pike, carp, crappie, and walleye. Everything is ready to eat a fly right now, get out and huck a bug. Streamers on our local rivers are a great option too as runoff is not raging as hard as it typically does. Lake Nighthorse opens…
As they say, all good things must come to an end. However, the end of one good thing brings about the beginning of another good thing. After a good month and all the wonderful support from you all during our 20% off FLY STIMULUS, we have come to the end of our sale. With the slow reopening of…
Vince McMahon will help save this country so stop stressing and go fish a streamer. But for real spring fishing has been good in the four corners, Blue-winged Olives have been coming off and the streamer bite has been getting solid. Get after it friends!
Spring temps are warming up the mountains, snow is melting, and rivers are rising and discoloring…it’s streamer swing time. Single hand or two handed, tie on your favorite big streamer and swing em, strip em, jig em, or dead drift em. Fish are moving for meaty bugs.
Today we talk about good things like fly fishing and blue winged olives on the Animas and protecting your face! Hopefully, by now you have also already heard about our Fly Stimulus…but if you haven’t then you should get in on it because it won’t last long…
If you didn’t see our post from yesterday, this video will give you a good feel of all that we have going on. The short of it, we are open for business, we have curbside pickup on all online orders, AND fishing has only gotten better with each day. Expect more live videos with reports,…
If you want the video version Two Flies, head on over to our Instagram or Facebook and watch our story that you can follow every Thursday titled “2 Flies”. This series will be showcasing 2 flies that we are using RIGHT NOW to catch fish on our local waters. It almost sounds redundant…but we might…
Animas Lunch Report – July 18th – Monsoons Have Come On this rendition of the Animas Lunch Report: the heat is hitting us here in Durango…but so is the RAIN!!! We needed it bad though. Today we talk about the San Juan, the super muddy Animas, carp and bass fishing, high country creek fishing, and…
Animas Lunch Report – July 4th – Celebrate Freedom, Go Fishing! It’s been a bit since we have been able to make a true Animas Lunch Report video, so we decided to go live to make it quick and easy. The sound is low quality, the picture is poor, but info is top notch! Watch…
Animas Lunch Report – June 1st, 2018 – Summer Has Arrived! It’s been quite a while since our last Animas Lunch Report…but since summer has arrived today, we wanted to set it off right! Check out the report and give us a call or stop by the shop before you head out!
Animas Lunch Report – 11-27-17 – Holiday Troutin I wouldn’t exactly call it a tropical heat wave…but I wouldn’t call it November weather either. Call it a haunting of the Indian Summer, call it global warming…call it what you want. The weather has been warm lately, reaching 60 degrees during the day. This has set…
Animas Lunch Report – 10/27/17 – The Most Important Thing You Will Read Today It’s fall dudes. Actually, fall is almost half over. It feels weird, like the opposite of Deja Vu; “How are we here now? shouldn’t it still be summer?” Because of that, we have something important to tell you. It will probably…
Animas Lunch Report – 8/30/17 – Recent Catches How has the fishing been lately? A little like this…
Animas Lunch Report – 8-23-17 – Macabre Pictures Running through a few photos from this past summer, I came across a handful that were worth a second look. Reminders of the finite nature of our existence, these photos expose the mortal nature of our lives. Some of these you may find calming, while others are downright…
Animas River Lunch Report – 8-21-17 – Total Eclipse of the Report So if it isn’t evident by now…we have been pretty swamped and have not had much opportunity to bring to the masses our usually consistent Animas Lunch Report. We kicked off our video reports….and then fell off the map. Summer hits like that around…
Animas River Lunch Report – 6-23-17 – The Longest, Fastest Day So it has been a few weeks since we last put out an Animas Lunch Report. The plan was to transition over to video reports; but as plans usually go, life happened. Well, more specifically, Duranglers summer life happened. We have been rocking full…
Animas River Lunch Report – 5-26-17 – Runoff is Here! This time of year, folks make their way to Durango for Memorial day weekend, only to find that many of our local rivers are blown out. While fisheries are high and muddy, there are still plenty of options to wet a line. With summer on…
Animas River Lunch Report – 5-18-17 – Runoff is Coming While we live in Colorado, and wild weather is possible, it’s not often that we get more than a foot of snow mid May. Welcome to the west. It is certainly going to have an effect on our fisheries as well as the timeline of…
Animas River Lunch Report – 5-12-17 – Runoff is Coming It is starting to heat up around here, and with the warmer temps come runnoff. It’s not full on yet…but it will be very soon. Check out our latest Animas Lunch Report Video!
Animas River Lunch Report May 3rd 2017 Dropping Spring Flows It’s May…and flows are dropping? Yep! Thanks to the cold stormfront we had this past week, flows dropped and fishing in SWCO is pretty good for the moment. Look for that to change later this week with higher flows. Check out our full…
Animas Lunch Report – 3/20/17 – Spring Lasted 4 Minutes It’s been a fairly busy past 3 months…which is how long it has been since my last Animas Lunch Report. Late winter fishing on the Animas was quite good. Spring fishing was pretty good too, at least all 4 minutes of spring that we had.…
Animas Lunch Report – 1/27/17 – Hello Snow Snowpack percentages are hitting on the high side right now. High as in 150 to 200 percent of average in much of Colorado. That is double a normal year. We are rich in future trout habitat. Digging out our drift boat is top of the ‘to-do’ list…
Animas Lunch Report – 12/5/16 – Snapping Ice Fidgeting with small flies, threading tippet, twisting knots, plucking said flies from trout mouths, and snapping ice from fly rod guides. Fingers get worked the on the river in winter. The rest of the body just stands there, a roll cast here, a mend there; but the…
Animas Lunch Report – 12/2/16 – Winter Guide Special Hey you! We are now offering winter guide special rates to fish the best part of the day from now until the end of February. This is a perfect opportunity to take a break from your week of skiing, hit tie water, and catch some trout…
Animas Lunch Report – 11/30/16 – Hello Winter While not technically winter yet, it might as well be here in Durango. It went from 50’s and sunny last week to 0 degrees and snowing this week. Hello winter. So far, ice on the Animas has been kept to a minimum and fishing has been pretty good…
