Talking about tail water fisheries San Juan River in New Mexico is the best place for fly fishing. The San Juan River runs through the Navajo Dam and has a lot of trout. An average trout from the San Juan River can measure up to 20 inches. While fishing for trout in the San Juan River you could use tippets or flies, but you need to be cautious in the way you present your bait.

Fishermen around the world are attracted to the San Juan River for fly fishing because of the trout population in the River. The San Juan River is a wide river and slow flowing and it has crystal clear tail water which is being fed by the snow from the mountains of San Juan of south central Colorado. The San Juan River is home to a lot of fish like Trout, rainbows, cut bows and Browns which can have an average size of about 17 inches.

The tail water of the San Juan River stays at a standard 45 degrees Fahrenheit irrespective of the season because these waters are basically snow fed. . This makes the tail waters a perfect place to be for the Trout and also because of all these factors fly fishing in the San Juan River is a famous recreation.

Dried flies and worms from the San Juan River are used as a bait to catch the fish. If you are on a package holiday and you have a hired instructor for fly fishing you will definitely end up catching a few trout’s. The instructors are usually good and they understand the river and the fish that live in it.