Fly Fishing at Clear Creek, Colorado
Rating: 5/5
Current River Conditions
Tue Oct 20 2026 00:00:00 GMT-0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)
Water continues to get colder and colder, but the past few days of warmer weather has stabled the creek out for a bit. BWO's are hatching daily and bringing great dry fly fishing during the middle of the day. If you're at the creek early or late, midge hatches have also brought great surface activity. With the cooler temperatures, terrestrials are fading, but still not completely gone. Hopper-dropper has still brought in plenty of fish, but nymphing has certainly been more consistent for numbers. Please keep in mind brown trout are beginning to stage up for the spawn, leave spawning fish alone and be aware of redds so you don't fish on them nor walk on or near them.
Dry Flies:
- Mole Fly
- Galloup's Goober Midge
- Bunny Midge
- Comparadun
- Ms. Tickle Cripple
- Zelon Cripple
- Double Stack Chubby
- Donkey Kong Hopper
- Jake's Gulp Beetle
Nymphs:
- Sunny Side Up
- Otter's Embryo Egg
- Jig Fullback Napoleon
- Hilbert's Sexi Top May
- Boroff's Barbless Gooey Midge Pupa
- Tungsten Zebra Midge
- Poly Wing RS2
- Crystal Bender
- Barbless Jig Duracell
- Juan's Bling Midge 2.0
