Eight miles from the turnoff onto CR 27, look for tiny Cebolla Creek Campground, where about 1 mile of public water is available. Turn left (south) and cross the bridge spanning the extreme eastern end of Blue Mesa Reservoir, then continue southward on SR 149 for 17 miles to County Road 27 at Powderhorn (which is basically a post office and some cabins) CR 27 runs southward alongside “Onion Creek” for several miles, including through four parcels of public land that offer access to stream reaches worth fishing. To reach Cebolla Creek-a tributary of the famed Gunnison River-from the town of Gunnison, head west on US Highway 50 for 9.5 miles to State Route 149. If you decide to explore Cebolla, you won’t find any Rio Grande cutts, but you will find something arguably more precious than gold: a mother lode of ravenous brown trout. In his quest for Cibola, Coronado never found a city made of gold but did inadvertently become the first European to lay eyes on Rio Grande cutthroat trout. Cebolla shouldn’t be confused with Cibola, the latter of which refers to one of the fabled Seven Cities of Gold sought by Spanish explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado. The point I’m making is that if you enjoy tossing flies for brown trout-with an emphasis on both quality and quantity-in a breathtakingly beautiful small stream setting, you should probably introduce yourself to Cebolla Creek.Ĭebolla Creek (pronounced suh-voy-a) derives its name from the Spanish word for “onion.” And indeed, wild onions grow liberally along the creek. Cebolla Creek? Now, I’m not claiming that Cebolla Creek belongs on the list of Earth’s finest brown trout fisheries-New Zealand Patagonia White River, Arkansas Silver Creek, Idaho and others-but I am saying that, for an unfamous, semi-scrawny trout stream in a forgotten corner of Colorado, it’s a fair bit better than you might guess. My own brown trout wanderlust has taken me to some of Colorado’s finest Salmo trutta waters: the Gunnison, Taylor, South Platte, and Frying Pan Rivers, and Cebolla Creek, amongst others. I’d wager that long before the disciples were “‘fishers of men,”‘ they were fly fishers of brown trout. I first suspected as much when legendary author Norman Maclean broached the subject in A River Runs Through It speaking of his father, he recalled, “He told us about Christ’s disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.” Mason Family State Wildlife Area contains some of the most gorgeous and productive brown trout water in the entire Gunnison Valley, but to dodge the crowds, skip breakfast and get there early. Teach him how to catch a brown trout on a fly rod andyou will have ruined him for a lifetime.”Īpparently, trout-obsessed fly-fishing bums aren’t anything new. ![]() ![]() To loosely paraphrase the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu, “Give a man a brown trout and you feed him for a day.
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