Package Price for Blue Mesa Fishing Guide Trips
Contact your local area guides for the hottest fishing at the best prices!
Kokanee Trolling
May to October
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This is the most sought after fishing window of the year! A guide trip Blue Mesa offers a great package price to top off any Vacation on Blue Mesa Fishing Reservoir! The price of guidetrips are competitive with all area guides that fish for Kokanee You will meet at the Elk Creek or Lake Fork boat ramp on Blue Mesa Reservoir as early as you can. The captains prefer an early launch, but will accommodate any schedule! Bring sun block, a light lunch and beverages. |
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Blue mesa weather can be rainy and warm, or cold in the morning and hotter than a smoked kokanee in the afternoon. You can always stop at a boat ramp to stretch your legs and use the bathroom. On average, trips will run from six to eight hours - depending on the mood and location of the fish. Possession of all bag limits is allowed so store a cooler and some bags in your vehicle for Fillets. You can fillet your own fish or have an experienced guides fillet them for you at no extra price! Most guide boats will have a cooler so you need not bring one. Pack all personal belongings in a backpack or similar sized bag and bring as little as possible.
Trophy Kokanee Fishing
August 1st to Mid-September
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This is the most sought after fishing window of the year! |
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Meet your Blue Mesa Fishing Guide at the Elk Creek boat ramp around 8am. The trophy kokanee salmon season gives guides a chance to catch up on some sleep and to Catch Limits! Plan on meeting at the boat ramp in the morning for trophy trips, and motor right to the fishing grounds. This is the best way to experience trophy salmon fishing from a boat! So- as soon as you and your guide reach the grounds, the fishing begins. The captain will put you on the fish, and then you drop your bait and hang on. These trips can be quick with your limit or lengthy with the hunt. Bring a lunch and beverages and a few items of clothing for adverse weather. Pack light to maximize deck space and leave a cooler with ice in your vehicle for salmon fillets. Possession of all bag limits is allowed!
Lake Trout Fishing
(Ice out - Early April to June 15th)
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Bring your patience and optimism! Meet at the Lake Fork Marina as early as possible. Be prepared to fish all day until you land your trophy. Bring warm clothes (an array of clothes for freezing temps in the morning hours), food and beverage. This is trophy trout fishing- catching the lake trout of a lifetime. Around 1pm, when peak fishing slows, you can cast the shoreline for brown trout to finish out each trip! |
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At Blue Mesa the state record gets broken nearly every year once if not twice! Everyone fishing has a chance to land a trophy, be videoed and photographed with a fish of your lifetime. Generally caught on these trips are native Colorado Lake Trout 20 pounds and better with a variety of trophy brown trout and rainbow trout. These trips will test your patience and skill but the reward is an experience unsurpassed by most Western Colorado fishing! The package price for these trips are based on the gas, lures and time it takes to effectively target these fish. The guides on Blue Mesa Reservoir give every trip 110%, but that does not garauntee a trophy, every trip.
Colorado Ice Fishing
December 1st to April
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1-2 Persons $275.00 per day 3 Persons $325.00 per day 50.00 each additional person If you love open water fishing, you'll love Ice Fishing! |
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Our guides Ice Fish Blue Mesa Reservoir, Harvey Gap State Park and Rifle Gap State Park up and down trying locate schools of fish, so the meeting place can be anywhere. Sometimes we will simply walk to the fishing grounds and other times we will take snowmobiles out to distant hot spots. These trips are usually half day trips with peak activity occurring 8am to 11am. A day of ice fishing is great for the price of a fishing guide trip- you may catch a 1 pound rainbow trout or a 20 pound lake trout!
Fly Fishing the Lake Fork of the Gunnison River & Cebolla Creek
Package Prices are for Mid June to November
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1 Person $225.00 half day 2 Persons $285.00 half day 3 Persons $380.00 half day 1 Person $285.00 whole day 2 Persons $345.00 whole day 3 Persons $445.00 whole day |
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Try to meet as early as you can at Lake City bridge. If you live in Lake City, Colorado and want to experience a guided Fly Fishing trip on your Colorado vacation this a great guide trip for the time, price and FISH involved! Bring all the gear you have for wading/river fishing. Waders, rods, vests, reels, raincoat are all things to bring if you have them- if not, we will provide you with what you will need for a day of fly fishing. You will meet your guide near the lake city bridge where the Gunnison river meets Blue Mesa Reservoir and begins your trip where the fishing has been the strongest. Your Blue Mesa Fishing Guide will outfit you with the hatch of the day, instruction and any other help such as netting fish and taking pictures. Most fish will be released to protect the populations of trophy and soon-to-be trophy trout that live and migrate in the Gunnison River. Exceptions will be made for smaller fish that make a great dinner. Your vehicle or ours will be the near by, so pack a lunch and beverages in a cooler and leave it in your car or truck.
Fly Fishing The Gunnison River in a drift boat
Mid June to November
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$350.00 a day early a.m. or late p.m. trip (5 hours fish time) *Maximum of 3 people This is fly fishing at it's Best! You will float the Gunnison river with one of Gunnison's newest and most successful fly fishing guides. We will meet at various launch sites on the Gunnison River depending on the flows for that day. |
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Feel free to bring your all your gear, your best flies, beverages and comfortable clothes depending on the weather. These trips will target trophy browns and rainbows, and kokanee salmon depending on the time of the season. We will provide all necessary equipment you may need throughout the day. Travel time can be up to 20 minutes and when we reach the fishing grounds we will either anchor up and cast the river, drift and cast, or hot shot the shore line. Most of these trips are half day trips and can pull out around noon, or 8pm - although we have never left an all day hatch or have ever left "em biting! Plan to catch fish and bring a camera to record the memory forever. Catch and release is practiced in these waters with the exception of a medium sized fish for a delicious dinner.
LAKE POWELL Master Class Seminar
April to November
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$500.00 per party Includes: • Maps • Launch sites • Fishing spots • Lure selection • Detailed habits of all lake fish • Unguided trip to the hottest spots |
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Blue Mesa Fishing Guide Service has suspended this trip and package price to Lake Powell until further notice. The price of gasoline has limited to budget of these trips.
