Big Thompson – Sylvan Dale Ranch

About this property

8-9 ft. 4 or 5 wt. rods are ideal and can easily be waded early and later in the season with hip boots but chest waders should be used in the late spring and early summer due to run-off induced increased flows. Being a free- stone river, the fish aren’t super selective and are more presentation conscious than pattern specific. Caddis and stone flies will be found in the riffles mostly and mayflies in the slower pools. Attractor drys and nymphs all produce about anywhere and in the lower section there a number of deep pools that demand streamers for larger fish.

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