{"id":984,"date":"2011-01-25T16:11:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T23:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfishingplaces.com\/us\/?p=984"},"modified":"2011-01-25T16:11:53","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T23:11:53","slug":"colorado-river-fishing-at-lees-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/raimstudio.com\/h\/bfp\/colorado-river-fishing-at-lees-ferry\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado river fishing at Lees Ferry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Arizona, situated along the\u00a0 Colorado River, Lees Ferry is a great drop point to  fish the Colorado River for Rainbow and Brown Trout.\u00a0 Drop a small boat  with a good motor and work up and down the river. Don&#8217;t pass up fly  fishing from the banks.\u00a0 There are a couple of motels in the area and  they each have a restaurant. Luxuries are not, but the fishing and  scenery are remembered forever.\u00a0 Head the other way downstream to enjoy  some awesome rapids and multi day trips down the canyon.<a href=\"http:\/\/raimstudio.com\/h\/bfp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/leesferry-flyfishing1s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-986 alignright\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;margin: 2px\" title=\"Fly Fishing at Lees Ferry\" src=\"http:\/\/raimstudio.com\/h\/bfp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/leesferry-flyfishing1s-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/raimstudio.com\/h\/bfp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/leesferry-flyfishing1s-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/raimstudio.com\/h\/bfp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/leesferry-flyfishing1s-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/raimstudio.com\/h\/bfp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/leesferry-flyfishing1s.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions from Phoenix<\/strong> Take  I-17 North to Flagstaff. Stay to the right and take I-40 East to the  Page-Grand Canyon exit. This will put you on north Hwy 89. Continue  about 110 miles, then take a left on highway 89A towards the north rim  of the grand canyon. Stay on 89A for 15 miles. The beginning is marked  by a bridge which crosses the mighty Colorado River. Starting with  Marble Canyon Lodge. Cliff Dwellers is another 9 miles further. There are plenty of guides for the area that are great at what they do and have been on this river for most of their lifetime. <a title=\"Marble Canyon Outfitters - Lees Ferry Arizona\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leesferryflyfishing.com\/\">Marble Canyon Outfitters.<\/a> and\u00a0 <a title=\"Lees Ferry Anglers - Colorado River Guides\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leesferry.com\/\">Lees Ferry Anglers<\/a> highlight the area guides. Lees Ferry Anglers has an <a title=\"Lees Ferry Fishing Report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leesferry.com\/report\/index.php\">excellent Fishing Report from the river<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Arizona, situated along the\u00a0 Colorado River, Lees Ferry is a great drop point to fish the Colorado River for Rainbow and Brown Trout.\u00a0 Drop a small boat with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"hide_page_title":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31],"tags":[54,61,71,85,96],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charters-and-guides","category-fishing-stories","tag-arizona","tag-fishing","tag-lees-ferry","tag-river","tag-trout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/raimstudio.com\/h\/bfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/raimstudio.com\/h\/bfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/raimstudio.com\/h\/bfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raimstudio.com\/h\/bfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raimstudio.com\/h\/bfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/raimstudio.com\/h\/bfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/raimstudio.com\/h\/bfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raimstudio.com\/h\/bfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raimstudio.com\/h\/bfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}