Western USA Incl Rocky Mountains

Grest Streams in the Western States including the Rocky Mountains.

Fly Fishing the Blue River in Colorado

Type of Stream:

tailwater and freestone

Location:

Central Colorado

The Blue River starts only about 60 miles from Denver Colorado and passes the famous ski slope of Breckenridge. It is from 80 to 100 feet across as it flows through the Gore Mountains on its way to meet the Colorado River near Kremmling Colorado.

Fly Fishing the Colorado River

Type of Stream:

Tailwater

Location:

Central Colorado/Arizona

The Colorado River is a massive clear running tailwater river that starts about 25 miles north of Lake Granby in the Rocky Mountains National Park.

Fly Fishing the Animas River

Type of Stream:

Freestone whitewater

Location:

Southwestern Colorado

The Animas River starts high, above 9,000 feet, in the scenic and lofty San Juan Mountains which are a beautiful spur of the Rocky Mountains.

Fly Fishing the Blackfoot River Montana

Type of Stream:

Freestone

Location:

Southwestern Montana

The Blackfoot river is a snow-fed and spring-fed river in western Montana. The Blackfoot River begins at the Continental Divide, 10 miles northeast of the town of Lincoln Montana.

Fly Fishing the Bitterroot River Montana

Type of Stream:

Freestone and Tailwater

Location:

Southwestern Montana

The two forks of the Bitterroot River start from melting snow in the Bitterroot Mountains in Southwestern Montana. The Bitterroot has a split personality since the West Fork is a tailwater stream and the East Fork is a freestone stream.

Fly Fishing the Green River, Wyoming

Type of Stream:

Freestone and Tailwater

Location:

Western Central Wyoming

The Green River starts at Green River Lakes, high on the Stroud Peak on the western side of the Wind River Mountain Range and just north of Pinedale, Wyoming.

Fly Fishing the Upper Salmon River Idaho

Type of Stream:

Freestone Large

Location:

North Central Idaho

The Salmon River is known as the river of no return as it flows 425 miles through Idaho. The Upper Salmon River begins near Galena Summit in the Sawtooth Mountains and is a tributary of the Snake River.

The Bighorn River Montana

Type of Stream:

Tailwater large

Location:

Southwestern Montana

The Bighorn River, named after the famous big horn sheep, is a tributary of the Yellowstone River and is approximately 460 miles long. The Bighorn starts near the town of Thernoplis, Wyoming at the Boysen Reservoir and flows into Montana and through the Bighorn Lake formed by the Yellowtail Dam.

Fly Fishing the North Platte River Wyoming

Type of Stream:

Freestone & Tailwater

Location:

South Central Wyoming

The North Platte rises between the Rocky Mountains and the Medicine Bow Mountains in Colorado near the town of Walden, and flows north for thirty miles before reaching Wyoming.

Fly Fishing Henry's Fork Idaho

Type of Stream:

Tailwater and Spring Creek

Location:

Eastern Idaho

Henrys Fork of the Snake River was named for Andrew Henry, a fur trader who first saw it in 1810. It starts at Henry’s Lake in Eastern Idaho which is fed by seven cold creeks, and huge, icy springs in its bottom.