Huge Rainbows on Pueblo Tailwaters summer Fly Fishing Arkansas River

[@davidtaylor-j7i]

Awesome catch brother I enjoy your videos and tips keep it up thanks again see u on the tailgaters legend.

[@TravelsAndMore]

Thanks so much! Hope to see you out there.

[@Tailwatertakes]

What size leader were you drifting those woolies with 6x tippet? I assume something tapered down to 5?

[@TravelsAndMore]

6X is roughly 3.5lb. I run a tapered leader down to about 6lb then have a tippet ring which I attach my 6X tippet. I hope this helps.

[@mikederheim5152]

Was wondering where you parked and how far you had to walk to river

[@mikederheim5152]

Nice job !!!

[@TravelsAndMore]

Thank you

[@TravelsAndMore]

I’ve got a video of different parking areas for the tailwaters.

[@mikederheim5152]

Is the small building in background what you refer to as the pump house?

[@mikederheim5152]

I have watched it many times I have had 2 hip replacements one on each side so I need to have a spot that is level as in this video shows !!

[@abrahamjames6983]

That was awesome!!!

[@TravelsAndMore]

Thank you so much!

[@xv40t77]

I’m so scared to go down that low on tippet but damn I guess with a little patience you can drag in some really nice fish. Just hate when they break off. Great vid!!

[@TravelsAndMore]

I hear that, but it definitely makes a difference.

[@jacobisom3548]

I was just there on Wednesday and was also dead drifting wooly buggers. I was getting most of them on a brown size 10 with orange rubber legs and a copper tungsten bead. I landed several in the 15-18" range and a few smaller ones. I had a really big one take me into a weed bed and come off. I'll be going back looking for that one soon.

[@TravelsAndMore]

That’s awesome. Buggers for the win!

[@mattbarger9219]

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[@kathycopley4816]

Thanks for all the great videos about Pueblo Res fishing and Arkansas tail waters. My husband and I are going tomorrow. Where were you in this video? (if you don't mind me asking) Or what exit to take to get near... Any info appreciated. Or if you want to meet up with us, that would be fun.

[@TravelsAndMore]

Unfortunately that evil work doesn’t allow me to fish all the time, but this was just up from Valco. They keep adjusting the levels and have raised it up since but just lowered back down again so should be good.

[@chrisbegger8684]

Epic Vid. I got Skunked back in Feb. on the Tailwaters, even though I saw probably 200 16-20 inch fish, they just didn't want what I had? This Video definitely has me wanting to try Pueblo again though. Any recommendations for "Five must have Flies for the Tailwaters"?

[@TravelsAndMore]

The tailwaters are known to be a winter fishery, not because it fishes best in the winter, but because it's one of the few places you can fly fish in the dead of winter and have a chance at catching something. In my opinion Feb is the toughest month to hook up on the tailwaters. The water is gin clean and ice cold, so the fish are super docile. The fish have also been fished hard by then so they are super educated, so everything has got to be spot on to have success. In my opinion the best time to fish is about 2 weeks from now until about December. In regard to flies, as you can see, I was throwing buggers as the water color was off and high, but once the water clears up and comes down more then surface action will really pick up. Flies like sz 18 parachute adams, tricos, small griffins gnats and caddis when you see them coming off too. But the vast majority of my fish come off of sz 20-24 emergers greased up to fish on the surface when they are feeding up top or deeper down when they aren't. And my favorite color for anything on the Ark is dark olive. But definitely fish it more, once you get it figured out it is an incredible fishery.

[@SmokeyMcPot7100]

Would you be willing to meet up on the water someday? Just moved to Colorado Springs and need some fly fishing guidance!

[@TravelsAndMore]

If you’re newer to fly fishing I would strongly suggest a good guide. They can help you with proper technique and how to read the water. Im hoping to do some meet ups out on the water sometime but a lot of my fishing here locally is just spur of the moment, when the wife gets frustrated with me and tells me “just go fishing”, lol.

[@ashleyhockenberry2187]

A+

[@TravelsAndMore]

Thank you.

[@mikefox5521]

How are the tail waters with a spinning rod this time of the year?

[@TravelsAndMore]

Now is a perfect time with a spinning rod. Just don’t catch ‘em all.

[@unionse7en]

If you wanna learn fly fishing Pueblo tailwaters is hard to beat. Any cheap rod will do, reels can be even cheaper as they just hold line really.

[@TravelsAndMore]

@@unionse7en very true. Great river to learn fly fishing.

[@cryptomilitaryvet9326]

✌️❤️

[@TravelsAndMore]

Thank you buddy

[@outdoorswithjoe719]

That first fish sure is a hog 🐟🎣

[@TravelsAndMore]

Piggy. Need to get back out asap.

[@outdoorswithjoe719]

@@TravelsAndMore 3 piggie's fs. Yeah need to get out there to

[@TravelsAndMore]

@@outdoorswithjoe719 was hoping to go out after work tonight but wifey changed that. So finger crossed for tomorrow.

[@outdoorswithjoe719]

@@TravelsAndMore i wanna to go tomorrow morning , to but I might be busy tomorrow! So hopefully Saturday morning or Saturday evening

[@TravelsAndMore]

@@outdoorswithjoe719 good luck my man.