Fishing near Grand Junction
 

We're going to be staying in Grand Junction as a part of trip to Moab. Is there a place that easy to access for some fly fishing in or around Grand Junction?

Thanks for your advice!

Here's some places to start looking:

http://www.coloradodirectory.com/fis...gbytown.html#G

http://www.visitgrandjunction.com/vi.../fish_hunt.cfm

http://www.scenicmesa.com/flyfishingrafting.html

http://www.colorado.com/article146

http://www.worldwidefishing.com/colorado/fly.htm

Hope this helps...
Debi

That depends upon what you're after. The Gunnison River joins the Colorado River in Grand Junction, but at that altitude both rivers are slow warm-water fisheries that contin few, if any, trout. Warm water fishing for northern pike, and bass can be had along the Colorado River near Grand Junction at Colorado River State Park near Clifton (Hwy 141 between I-70 exit #37 and Hwy 50), and Island Acres State Park (just off I-70 at exit 46 or 47). The Gunnison River doesn't really begin to hold trout until you get upstream about 50 miles, and then access is difficult to find and usually involves hiking in a fair distance.
The many cold water lakes up on Grand Mesa overlooking Grand Junction will have lots of trout for the stillwater flyfisher (take I-70 east to exit #49 and take Hwy 65 up onto the mesa).
For trout in the Colorado River you really have to get upstream to at least the town of Rifle (I-70 exit #90) 60 miles east of Grand Junction. From there, upstream to the Colorado's headwaters in Rocky Mountain N.P. you will find trout. From Rifle to Glenwood Springs the Colorado River is big and more amenable to float fishing from a boat than wading. In late May and June, when the river swells up from mountain snow runoff, the Colorado river can be unsafe and unfishable for a wading fisherman.
If you can get up to Glenwood Springs (I-70 exit #116), 85 miles upriver from Grand Junction, you should be able to find some good trout fishing in the Colorado River and the city's parks along the Roaring Fork river near it's confluence with the Colorado.

The Colorado Division of Wildlife stocks trout in some ponds and lakes in and around Grand Junction. If you're going sometime between now and the end of June you may have some luck fishing these stillwaters. By the middle of July these waters heat up and trout fishing in these ponds will slacken.
Check out the Colorado DOW website for their stocking report under their "fishing", then "reports" tabs for stocked lakes/ponds in Grand Junction, Clifton, Palisade, and Fruita.
This past week the DOW stocked trout in Corn Lake (Clifton), Fruita State Park Pond (Fruita), Gene Taylors Pond (Grand Junction), Island Acres Lake (NE of Palisade), Palisade River Bend Park Pond (Palisade), and Parachute Pond (Parachute).
The hatchery reared trout that the DOW stocks are rather dumb at first. Try fishing a big dry attractor pattern to entice these recently stocked fish as they may not be tuned in to the natural food available in these ponds/lakes, but will be willing to hit something big and enticing. Or try trailing a small callibaetis, chironomid, or damselfly nymph or emerger behind the big dry fly to entice those trout that have become aclimated.

Debit==THANK YOU!! That is a terrific list.