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Green River Utah
I'm in Basalt CO for the last 2 weeks of July and the first 2 weeks of August visiting my son. He wants to get away from from the Frying Pan and Roar Fork to fish the Green River in Utah. Does anyone have any information on it. One is it a strikely float river or are there areas for wading? Also any good camp sites?
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The San Juan is the same amount of time away...Better fish, More of em.
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Easy to wade. There's a trail on the north side of the river from the dam all the way to Little Hole--7 miles. I like to hike up from Little Hole. Can get current info at http://www.fishgreenriver.com/.
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As Trigg said, trail on the north side through the A section. Definitely wadeable, may be some parts you can't get to (never fished it at that time of year) but there are plenty of really nice fish in the river.
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Wading will be limited to the little eddys along the shoreline because the water gets deep fast. There's some steep places off the trail which lead down to deep water that don't look that deep; 20' + because the water is clear. Float tubes are good if you have any experience in them, but a drft boat is the way to go so you don't end up wet. About 2 miles up the trail from the lower take out there's a good eddy that BWO's fooled many a nice trout & around the lower take out ramp fished the cranefly hatch with good results over a Memorial Day weekend years ago. Doubt the mid-summer weather will be anything like the rain, hail, sleet, sunshine , snow & lightning storms we encountered. Fly fishing at the bottom of a canyon, but there's almost nowhere to get out of lightning storms dancing on the canyon rim & farther down the rock cliffs.
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Check out the flows - I read somewhere that it is running 8600 cfs, and it seems that that would wipe out some of the streamside path. When we fished it they were running it at around 800-1200 and we got around just about everywhere, but I can't imagine 10 times that.
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I want to thank everyone for there input. Looks like we'll be going to Durango. Anything on that location?
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The Animas river goes right though town. The San Jaun is a hour south, and the Rio Grand is a hour and a half to the east. Also has a bunch of great small stream fishing in the Weeminuche wilderness. All in all a good place to fish.
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I've often thought it would be fun to ride the Narrow Gauge up the river a ways, then they will let you off to fish and pick you up on the way back.
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I live 30 minutes from the Green. It will fish just fine for wade fishing at that time of year. The current "flood" will not hurt the fishing then. If anything, it will clean the river of silt and debris, and make things better. Plenty of wade fishing BELOW Little Hole, and further down into Browns Park. Floating is best, of course, but theres miles of good water and the trail below Little Hole is pretty easy. There are campsites on the road to the river, around Flaming Gorge Reservoir, and along the river itself within a couple of miles of the Little Hole parking lot.
You can fish hoppers/crickets/beetles/ants on top. Nymphing ALWAYS catches lots of fish. Hatches are sparse at that time.