The Red River

Starting high up in the Sange de Cristo Mountains, The Red River flows through the town of Red River and down along Hwy 38 before hitting the valley of Questa. After a couple more miles the Red creates its own gorge about 4 miles before its confluence with The Rio Grande. While the upper stretches have some excellent dry fly fishing in the summer months, we really enjoy the last 4 miles before the confluence. There are numerous springs that feed into this stretch that keep the water temps warm in the winter, and nice and cold in the summer. Fishing the Red in its lower stretch is like fishing a smaller Rio Grande river and we especially love to fish the Red in the winter months.