East Clear Creek Arizona Fly Fishing Report & Options for Selecting Flies: Email us at (sales@perfectflystore.com) with the dates you will be fishing and we will send you a list of our fly recommendations. We can get flies and gear to you within two to three business days from the time you place your order via Priority Mail. If you provide a budget for flies, we will select them to match the budget and get them to you on time for your trip. Your can also call us at 800-594-4726 and we will help you decide what flies and gear to use. All orders are shipped free in the U.S. If under a $100 order requiring Priority mail is a charge of only $8.10. Orders over a $100 are shipped free via Priority Mail.
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Type of Stream
Freestone/Tailwater
Species
Rainbow Trout (wild and stocked with
holdovers)
Brown Trout (wild and stocked with
some holdovers)
Size
Small to Medium
Location
Mogollon Rim
Season:
Year-round
Nearest Towns
Winslow
Clints Well
Happy Jack
Access:
Difficult
Non-Resident License
State of Arizona
Weather
National Weather Service Link
Seasons:
The fishing season runs year-round.
Spring:
Fly fishing East Clear Creek can be good in late Spring.
Summer:
The stream stays cold during the Summer and fishing usually continues to be good.
Fall:
Fishing for brown trout during the early part of Fall is usually excellent.
Winter:
The stream is open for fishing during the winter, but access is probably impossible most of the time.
| Recommended Tackle & Gear Fly Line: 4, 5 or 6 weight Leaders: Dry fly: 9 to 12 ft., 5 or 6X Nymphing: 71/2 ft., 3 or 4X, Streamers 0-2X Tippets: Dry fly: 5 or 6X, Nymphing: 3 or 4X, Streamer 0-2X Best Fly Rods: Perfect Fly Supreme Four, Superb Five or Ultimate Six Fly Reels: For 4/5/6 fly line Fly Floatants and Misc Items: Floatants, KISS Strike Indicators Tools & Accessories: Nippers, forceps, retractors, etc. Copyright 2016 James Marsh |
Fly Fishing East Clear Creek Arizona
East Clear Creek is located in the Mogollon Rim area of Arizona. It is a tributary of the Little Colorado River. The stream provides about thirty miles of small stream trout fishing. This is a remote stream with plenty of trout but difficult access. Fly fishing East Clear Creek in the Kinder Crossing area is probably your best bet.
It’s a beautiful little streams surrounded with Ponderosa pine and some colorful canyon walls. You have to get into the East Clear Creek canyon to fish it and that’s isn’t easy to do in most places. Access is from several different forest roads off of roads leading off Highway #87.
East Clear Creek is best known for its wild, stream-bred trout. It has some nice size brown trout as well as average size rainbows.
The stream consist of a variety of types of water including some deeper pools and runs. There’s a few sections of riffles but all in all, the stream flows through the canyon on a moderate decline.
East Clear Creek supports a very good population of aquatic insects. Blue-winged Olives, Tricos, Pale Evening duns and a few other mayflies are present. Caddisflies including Little Black Caddis, Short-horned Sedges, Spotted Sedges and Green Sedges are also plentiful. There’s also some brown stoneflies that hatch during the month of June. Terrestrial insects supplement the aquatics during the Summer months.