Eagle River
at Red Cliff, Colorado · USGS gauge 09063000
Flow is lower today than on this date in any of the previous 21 years this gauge has recorded. The lowest of those was 9 ft³/s in 2021.
These readings do not say whether fish are biting, whether there is parking, or whether the season is open. The shop reports below cover what is biting.
Eagle River reports from local shops
Each shop writes its own report. Listed here: the date on each one and the hatches and flies it names. Their words stay on their sites; follow the link to read them.
Three local shops have posted a report on the Eagle River in the last two weeks. Two of them mention midges; one mentions blue-winged olives, caddis and stoneflies.
Before you drive
| Overnight | 33°F, wind 5 mph Partly Cloudy |
|---|---|
| Sunday | 61°F, wind 5 to 10 mph Mostly Sunny |
| Sunday Night | 38°F, wind 5 mph Mostly Cloudy |
| Monday | 58°F, wind 5 mph Mostly Sunny then Chance Rain Showers |
How this water changes through the year
Over 22 years of record, flow on Eagle River peaks in June, when the median runs about 129 ft³/s, and falls to its lowest in February at around 10 ft³/s. Today's 7 is below even that seasonal low. The band on the chart is where the middle 60% of years fall, so a reading inside it is ordinary for the date and one outside it is not.
Nearby monitored waters
No water here is recommended over another. Same measurements, three closest waters.
Species
Listed by Colorado CPW for Eagle River #4: Brown Trout.
The agency's list covers CPW's Fishing Atlas reach, water code 20052; the atlas lists species per reach, not per river. CPW's own stream-gage layer joins USGS 09063000 at Red Cliff to water code 20052. Reaches downstream at Edwards and Gypsum list brown, rainbow and whitefish and are not this reach. The agency prints no date on the list; read 2026-09-08.
Access points
| Coordinates | To gauge |
|---|---|
| 39.5083, -106.3667 · at Red Cliff USGS gauge location. Not a listed public access point; check access before you travel. | 0.0 mi |
Sources and method
- Live
- USGS gauge 09063000, EAGLE RIVER AT RED CLIFF, CO., 0.0 mi from the listed access point. Fetched 2026-10-18 07:19 UTC.
- History
- USGS daily values: flow 2005–2026, 7,940 daily values; water temperature 2022–2026, 824 daily values. Percentile is the share of readings within 7 days of this calendar date, across all years, below the current one (flow n=315 over 21 years).
- Rules
- Seasons, limits and licences are not on this site and are not copied from the agency that publishes them: Colorado CPW.
- Species
- Colorado CPW, Eagle River #4, undated, read 2026-09-08.
- Heat
- Colorado CPW: voluntary or mandatory closures once water reaches 71 °F or flow falls below half of average (published 2025-08-15, checked 2026-09-08). The water temperature card compares today's reading with that figure and says nothing about whether a restriction applies.
- Shop reports
- Chosen from the organic search results for “eagle river fishing report” (Ahrefs, read 2026-10-01), keeping shops and guides and dropping social media, forums and other aggregators. Linked, not quoted, and not endorsed. Report dates, hatches and fly names read from each page 2026-10-18, by matching a fixed list of insects and patterns: a name not on the list is not shown, and a report older than 30 days shows its date only.
- Forecast
- NOAA National Weather Service, api.weather.gov, for the coordinates of the nearest access point.
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