My family has the opportunity to fish the crested butte/gunnson area this summer for a week. We can pretty much pick when we want to go so I was thinking mid to late July or mid to late August. Any suggestions as to which would be better? August isn’t too late for hoppers there is it?
TIA, John
There is a fair to middling flyshop in Almont that ought to be able to give you good hatch advice. This is likely to be a lower water year than last year (snowpack melted in a hurry), so the river should all be fishable either of those times. I usually only get over there about once a season, and it has typically been in early August, and we fished the Taylor canyon, did well on PMDs and caddis.
DG
Who you want to contact is dragonflyanglers.com or highmtndrifters.com. The former is in Crested Butte and the latter in Gunnison. Both know exactly what is going on when and what will hatch when.
July is the green drake hatch.
August is the end of high runoff and better for rainbow in Neversink.
Don’t overlook the opportunities on the Taylor.
I took a ride up from Spring Creek and fished all the beaver ponds I could find. LOTS of very willing brookies in them 
The road from Spring Creek over to Taylor Reservoir is full of beaver dams.
It helped I was on a dirt bike but any vehicle can travel that road easily. Pretty ride too 
Oh come on BBW, tell 'em the whole truth.
It’s beautiful and you can get to 11,000 feet and cast to wonderful fiesty little trout (assuming you can breathe), but the road is a washboard. I have a 4WD and I don’t suppose a 2WD would actually have trouble, but it will rattle your teeth. Better than Taylor’s black ice in January.
I missed out on Spring Creek last year. I read a lot about it but was never able to carve enough time away from the wife and two kids to get over there. I’m guessing you would recommend it? I’m not looking for big fish.
Go to the top of the Spring. Bring a 2 or 3 wt. short rod. On the way up you will find some beaver dammed ponds but at the top small running waters that have 6" trout who may have never seen a fly. It’s high enough that you won’t have trees and are looking over and fishing in a shallow valley between two pretty peaks. All very cool.