2002 Rio Costilla Fly Fishing Report Archives
The Valle
Vidal section of the Costilla opens on July 1st to facilitate elk calving
in the park. Flows on the Costilla are regulated from Costlla Resevoir for
irrigation downstream and unlike other irrigation impoundments they have
a schedule of releases. High flows are Monday-Thursday and low flows from
Friday-Sunday.. Flows between 30-100cfs are best but high flows have often
been higher than 100cfs and low flows less than 30cfs.
July: Flows were
a little better than last year {30-60cfs} but with the fishing pressure this
stream gets the fish got real spooky in
a hurry. We caught a lot of fish but they were mostly small {6-10"} and
even in the faster water fishing was slow.
August: Flows remained the same {30-60cfs}and very low on weekends {10cfs}.
The water got murky but not as bad as last year. Low flows combined with fishing
pressure made for a poor month on the Costilla. Temperatures were again in
the high 60*s on sunny days and also contributed to slow fishing. They shut
off the flow on 9/5.
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