Guided Fly Fishing at Lees Ferry

Lees Ferry Fly Fishing Guides

One can always have a spectacular day on the river. The combination of fishing, scenic beauty, instruction, and bonding are hard to beat. We offer careful and caring teaching for beginners, but also can advance an experienced angler’s nymph fishing or casting technique. Enjoy a great lunch on a sunny beach, great conversation, and seeing a herd of bighorn sheep. Whatever shape the day takes, our only goal is to provide a wonderful and unforgettable experience.

The Lees Ferry fishery is the 15 mile tailwater below Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell. Created in 1963, the Ferry provides a wonderful fly fishing experience in some of the most stunning scenery in the West. We utilize custom Koffler jet boats to access the riffles and runs. While we typically wade, we may also fish from the boat depending on conditions and angler preference.

What's Included

Rates

$ 600

$ 650

$ 700

*Please Note: While we welcome three anglers to a boat, it should be understood it can be a challenge to the overall fishing experience. Many gravel bars cannot accommodate three anglers and casting from a drifting boat can be difficult.

Lees Ferry Fishing by the Seasons

Winter

December through mid-March finds most of the canyon in shadow most of the day. These are the most challenging conditions of the year with feeding activity at it’s lowest. Most days you will have the entire river to yourself. Expect to use a variety of tactics including nymphing while wading or from a drifting boat, throwing streamers with a sink tip line and fishing a dry-dropper rig when sunny areas produce midge hatches

Spring

Mid-March through May finds the sun returning to the canyon, midge hatches and feeding activity increasing and many fish moving into the shallow gravel bars to spawn. Cool mornings and warm days make this the most popular time to fish the Ferry. Tactics include sight casting to fish in shallow water, nymphing riffles as feeding activity increases, streamers on a sink tip and nymphing from a drifting boat.

Summer

June brings our hottest weather and along with rising temperatures are rising fish. Feeding activity is at it’s peak. This is the time of year we fish dry flies, generally imitating various terrestrials including cicadas, ants, beetles, spiders and grasshoppers. We often fish from a drifting boat throwing a dry and dropper rigs under over hanging vegetation. Nymph and streamer fishing also produces well.

Fall

In the fall we do it all. Fish will often continue to take dry flies into October. Additionally, the annual reduction of flows in September or October (depending on conditions in Lake Powell) has the effect of condensing fish in riffles and seams. If condition are right, this can provide some of the best fishing of the year utilizing all Lees Ferry tactics tactics effectively. Fishing then begins to slow in November when the canyon is once again in shadow.