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The South Fork Conejos River is a tributary to the Conejos River in Southern Colorado. It offers some really good trout fishing. The South Fork flows for 14 miles thru the South San Juan Wilderness. There are several trails that lead to the stream and follow it to its headwaters, although my experience is these trails sometimes disappear so if you want to explore this stream, bring a GPS and be ready for some off trail maneuvers.
I spoke with a couple local anglers about their thoughts on the south fork. They told me they had fished it long ago but consider it a dangerous place to fish and prefer the many safer areas nearby. I have to agree the whole area is dangerous, with steep canyon like areas made of easily erodible terrain. Several times I had to climb around obstructions on this day and that did not seem like a safe thing to do. So if you're going to fish, do be careful.
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That was epic on that big fish under the rock. Well done Sir.
Beautiful backcountry stream ... thanks for sharing. Great job hooking, fighting and landing the big one under the rock. However, it was a Cuttbow hybrid... not a pure-strain Cutt. Still a trophy in that tiny stream.
Nice fish!! Thanks for all your instructional videos over the years
Exciting video, great scenery, beautiful nature, fine fishing. Lots of fun!
Great job ! thanks for the video
Beautiful stream! Thanks for sharing. Can’t wait for Summer!
Nice! Thanks!
WOW - Great fish. Thanks for the great video.
Love your video! What a day and fish! Do you have any suggestions for directions to get to those spots? Thank you.
look it up on a map
I live on the Conejos. The South Fork is really not hard to get to. Take State Road 17 to Forest road 250, and drive toward the Platoro reservoir. There is a well marked trail head to the South Fork. You will have to hike in a couple of miles to reach the river. As the author states, the trail is not always obvious, but not difficult to find.
good ones!!
That was fun to watch! I've had some tough fish to bring in that your experience reminded me of! Congrats, it's a beaut! So this was in July when you were fishing? How were the mosquitoes?
This was July 28. There are not many mosquitoes in that area but up until July 18 there are a lot of black flies. These are not gnats, they are actual flies, and they buzz around you. July 18-20 is also when the area streams start having easy water levels to fish.
the black flies are horrible, and they bite
Congrats on that Rio that’s a lifetime fish. So this is July 28? It looks like it would be dangerous to fish this with flows any higher would you agree?
Well, it is kind of dangerous to fish even at low flows due to the canyon like terrain with crumbly rock, but I think mid-July would have been fine too.