The Eagle River is our home river and flows right behind our shop in Edwards. It is an excellent freestone river with prolific hatches. It flows from high above Camp Hale south of Redcliff to its confluence with the Colorado River in Dotsero.  It is most famous for the prolific Caddis hatches that come off in the spring and early summer. The Eagle is noted for  its excellent dry fly fishing for wild brown and rainbow trout. The float fishing season is fantastic but short and runs from April-July in most years.  The Eagle can be wade fished year round and there is excellent public access to the river below Wolcott and above Edwards.

Last updated by JP Modderno on 4/30/2026

It's definitely Spring in the Vail Valley and looks like we're finally getting some moisture. It's been snowing up high and raining/ snowing down low almost everyday for a week. We seriously need it but it's been creating some variable fishing conditions. The caddis we were seeing all the way up to Edwards are now mostly just showing in Gypsum. We still have some fantastic BWO hatches all the way up the river to the Gore so definitely make sure you have some dries and emergers on you when you head out.

If they don't seem to be fully rising to your dry, try throwing and emerger like an RS2 or remote control behind your dry. Let it swing too!

Keep Em Wet: If you must take a photo, leave the fish in the water. It's cold out there!

NYMPHS: Black rainbow warriors 16-20, RS2s in olive and grey 18-20, remote control olive and grey 18, magic fly BWO 18, two bit hooker olive and black 18, Blow torch 16-18, taz devil 16-18, daddy's caddis and fat cadass 16-18

DRIES: Para Adams 16-20, black elk hair caddis 18, hot mess caddis 16-18, missing link caddis 16-18, helion caddis grey 16-18, film critic bwo 18, christiansons BWO 18-20.

STREAMERS: Thin Mints, Mini Dungeons, Rusty Trombone, and a few people have been crushing on small olive and black leeches