Fly Fishing Photography
Crested Butte, Colorado - Summer - San Juan Mountains
Crested Butte, Colorado is hands down one of my favorite places to go fly fishing in the country. It’s just one of my favorite places period. Combine the stunning views with their mountain town culture and access to all sorts of fly fishing, and the place is hard to beat. Summertime anywhere in the San Juan mountains will seduce you whether you’re aware of it or not. The images are from a recent backcountry fly fishing trip with friends to a small creek that shall go unnamed for obvious reasons. There is plenty of easy fishing access around around Crested Butte on the Taylor River, East River, and Gunnison River, so blowing up such a remote spot like this would cause me to lose sleep. Just looking at these photographs is FOMO inducing. Can’t wait to get back out there.
Fly fishing in Crested Butte, Colorado
Fly fisherman wading up a river in Crested Butte, Colorado
A fly fisherman climbing over a pile of trees and branches on the side of a river outside Crested Butte, Colorado
Fly fishing a picturesque stream in the San Juan Mountains
Cans of Coors Banquet chilling in river water during a fly fishing trip in Colorado
Catching trout on a backcountry stream in Colorado
Backcountry fly fishing in Colorado
A fly fisherman netting a trout in a small stream surrounded by canyon walls in Colorado
Fly fisherman laughing after a fun day on the river in Crested Butte, Colorado
Fly fishing wading boots and wading socks drying on a tree