Fly-Fishing

Everything your fly-fishing
heart desires.

Most guests begin their trip on a variety of our Stillwater ponds. For many anglers, Stillwater fishing is a yawn, but not here. Our ponds are clear and shallow, with shoulder vegetation, blowdown and flats. The majority of your time is spent sight-casting to brookies, browns, rainbows, and cuttbows.  Streamers, nymphs, and dropper rigs are commonly used, but much of our fishing is with dry flies. There is nothing like casting a big Stimulator to a cruising trout, and getting a Grand Slam is icing on the cake.

Fish the moving water.

After a few days of sight fishing, many of our guests change gears to fish moving water. There are some rivers, such as the Crystal and the White, where we offer private-access fishing on freestone streams. While our ponds fish well all year long, the best time to fish the rivers and the streams is in the summer, from June through August.  Run off is over by then, and the hatches are epic.

Take a driftboat trip
with a shore-side lunch.

For a complete experience, our guides then move on to a driftboat trip.  Most of our trips are on either the Roaring Fork or the Colorado, and are run by our affiliates.  Some of the drift trips are run in drift boats while others use self-bailing rafts.  Shoreside lunches in the shade of a cottonwood grove break up the day.

Spring creek sight-casting for
newsworthy browns and rainbows

And for you experts, why not add a spring creek sight-casting experience to the mix? At the High Lonesone Ranch, K-T location, we’ve got two spring creeks that you can have all to yourself. The browns and rainbows are big enough to have been featured in Fly Rod and Reel magazine.

Finish off your week on one of our ponds, and get even with the 20+ inch trout that thumbed his nose at you earlier in the week.

Get your Orvis and Cabela’s
gear, right here.

Our handy fly shop has everything you need, from licenses and flies to rods and equipment for purchase or rent. Expert advice and stories about the latest big one are on the house.

You’re in for some great fly-fishing, every time you visit The High Lonesome Ranch.