Walk & Wade · Blue River below Dillon
Two Hour Walk & Wade
$125+Short, in-town introduction. 1-3 anglers. All gear included. Best for first-timers wanting a real fish before deciding to commit a day.
Hero · Blue River below Dillon · early June · low cloud lifting · the caddis just starting
Steady water,
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Steady water,
evening caddis,
fish on top.
The Blue is sitting at 240 cfs and clear, the Swan is dropping into early-summer shape, and the South Platte tailwater is fishing midges in the morning and caddis in the last two hours of light. Our guides have been on it all week and have flies tied for it. Book a trip for this water or call us about it. Both lines are open.
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Trips for this water.
Six trip types, all year-round, with prices that scale by group size and length. This week, our guides recommend the half-day walk-and-wade for the South Platte midge window or the full-day float for the Colorado as it drops back into shape.
Half Day · South Platte tailwater
Half Day Walk & Wade
$350+Four hours of guided fishing. 1-3 anglers. Equipment, beverages, and a guide who has been on the water this week. The most popular trip in summer.
Full Day · Colorado River below Pumphouse
Full Day Walk & Wade
$500+Eight hours, lunch included, the full day on water. 1-3 anglers. The committed-angler trip. Multiple stretches, multiple rigs, every conditions adjustment we can make for you.
River Float · Colorado / Eagle
River Float Trip
$650+1-2 anglers in a drift boat with a guide on the oars. Cover four to eight river miles in a day. Fish water you can't reach from the bank.
Lake Float · Dillon Reservoir
Lake Float Trip
$500+1-2 anglers, dory or raft on the high-country reservoirs. Different fish, different rhythm. When the rivers are blown out, the lakes are fishing.
Private Water · Permitted ranches
Private Water
$50/rod+For experienced anglers. Access to permitted private stretches. Plus a guide fee. Best for groups who want low pressure on real water.
Sarah Barclay · Blue River · Tuesday morning
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Sarah Barclay
FIFTEEN SEASONS · WOMEN'S LEARN-TO-FLY-FISH PROGRAM · SWAN RIVER RESTORATION STAKEHOLDER
Sarah has been guiding for the shop since 2010 and runs our Women's Learn-to-Fly-Fish program, a free monthly class for women who want a no-pressure introduction to the sport. She is a stakeholder in the Swan River restoration project and knows that water from the headwaters down better than anyone in town.
"If you've been told fly fishing is hard, you've been told something I disagree with. Most people I take out get fish on their first afternoon. The hard part is getting good. The easy part is starting."
DEPARTMENT
Free Fly Fishing 101
Our free intro classes have been running every weekend in summer for fifteen years. Forty-five minutes in the shop, then a walk down to the Blue. No equipment needed. No commitment to book a trip after.
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Rentals
Walk in, walk out with everything you need. Full package $100/day (waders, boots, rod, reel, vest, terminal tackle). Waders + boots $40. Rod + reel $40. Walk-in only. First come, first served.
Rental list →DEPARTMENT
The Shop
The full Orvis-endorsed retail shop: rods, reels, lines, leaders, flies, vises, books, and the Colorado-specific stuff you can only get from a shop that's been here thirty years. On Main St in the Sterling Building.
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Three decades.
Orvis-trained team.
Five Orvis awards.
Breckenridge Outfitters has been on Main Street since 1994, has carried Orvis Endorsement since the start, and has been named Orvis Endorsed Shop of the Year (2016) and Orvis Endorsed Outfitter of the Year four times (2013, 2005, 2004, 1999), putting us among the most decorated Orvis-endorsed outfitters in the country.
Tim West owns the shop. Ned Parker manages it. Every guide on the team is an Orvis-trained instructor, on the local water enough days a year to know what the river was doing on Tuesday morning when you were thinking about your trip on Saturday.
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