Guided fly fishing & elk hunts · North Fork Valley
Rimrock Elk & Trout guides fly fishing and elk hunts out of Paonia — the North Fork Valley, Gunnison County, Grand Mesa, Delta County and Western Colorado. The season rail below shows the year; copper days are open.
The season rail
Open dates punched in copper · scroll the year
Trips & seasons
Archery elk in the early fall, rifle elk in the late fall, and fly fishing across the long light from spring through fall. Rates start where the season starts — pick your window, then pick the trip.
Season · spring through fall
Guided fly fishing on the North Fork and the valley's smaller water. Full days run first light through the evening rise. Half days take the best window of the day and nothing else.
Season · early fall
Five days in the high country as the rut comes on — timber, wallows and the first cold mornings. Archery is the quietest window on the rail, and the one to claim early if you want it.
Season · late fall
Late-fall elk on the rimrock and the oak brush below it. Five days, hard frost, and the country at its most open — the leaves off and the glassing good.
The leaves come off. The country opens up.
Season · fall weekend
One weekend, two ways to read the season — shotguns in the early hours, fly rods in the afternoon, moving with the weather and the water.
How it works
Booking here is a short walk, not a form marathon. Four steps from open date to open water.
Copper marks the days that are open, month by month. Scroll the year until your window shows up.
Use the booking form or call the number. Give the date and the trip you're after.
We come back to you to lock the day in and go through the meet time, the water or the country, and what to bring.
Meet your guide at the river or the trailhead and put the day in. That's the whole of it.
Service area
We guide out of the North Fork Valley and run trips across the western slope, from the river bottoms below the orchard country up onto Grand Mesa and into the Gunnison County high country.
Book a date
Send a request for any copper day and we'll come back to you to confirm. If you'd rather talk it through first, the phone is right here.
Nothing is held until we confirm the date with you. Rifle elk and fall weekends are the tightest stretch of the year — send those requests with room to spare.
Trips run across the North Fork Valley, Gunnison County, Grand Mesa, Delta County and Western Colorado.
(555) 014-2290