Cross D Bar Trout Ranch @ WestcliffeThe Cross D Bar Trout Ranch Do you want to find PARADISE? It's only 125 miles from Denver, 70 miles from Colorado Springs, 1800 miles from New York City and 850 miles from Los Angeles. Here you will find among the spectacular Sangre De Cristo mountains (south-central Colorado) the old ranching west with its rugged solitude and beneficial environment for the harried, modern homo sapien. At the Cross D Bar you will experience the thrill and enjoyment of high altitude fly, lure and bait fishing for wild Brown, Cutthroat, Golden, Brook, Rainbow and Donaldson trophy-sized Colorado trout under the superb guidance of professional, friendly instructors. If needed, Cross D Bar can provide first class rental equipment which includes rod, reel, flies, waders and nets. As the demand for fishing and camping grew, the Cross D Bar Foundation realized that it was not adequately meeting the needs of the disabled, handicapped and elderly sports person. After an exclusive study and review of the existing trails and facilities, we installed fishing piers, dam bumpers, bridges over spillways, handicapped ramps, toilets and electrical outlets for the equipment vehicles. This renovation, all ADA compliant, has enabled more disabled people to utilize the ranch. The current goal at the Cross D Bar is to expand our events so that we can accommodate more than 700 Wounded Warriors who call Fort Carson home. Note..!! Angler's Addiction supports the Wounded Warrior program. Though their home town's may be far away, so long as they reside at Fort Carson (just a few miles up the road from Pueblo), they are OUR soldiers, and we are glad to call them our friends and neighbors... WestCliffe, ColoradoThis quaint rural setting known as Westcliffe is a place where you can slip under the radar to spend long summer days enjoying the high meadow mountain weather while visiting with the company of the many friendly residents.The town is adjacent to the historic mining town of Silver Cliff Colorado. Westcliffe Colorado and Silver Cliff in Custer County, sit at approximately 8000 ft., and are surrounded by the majestic Sangre de Cristo mountain range ascending to 14,000 ft heights, to the west and the Wet Mountains to the east. The Collegiate Mountains can be viewed to the north, and the Spanish Peaks sit in the south. Though the town is small, there are a full range of dining and lodging services available. If the fishing in the high Rockies doesn't soothe your soul, then the panoramic views surely will.
This particular area of the Colorado Rocky Mountains is known as the Sangre de Cristo's is famous for it's unparalleled views and endless miles of lush wilderness trails and mountain meadows bursting with wild flowers.
Local Fly FishingIn addition to the Cross D Bar Trout Ranch there is outstanding fishing at:DeWeese Reservoir Brook trout and cutthroat trout are available in the lake but are not plentiful. Short sections of Grape Creek above and below the lake are accessible for stream fishing. Besides some vault toilets and a few picnic tables, few other amenities are available at this SWA. The lake is open to boating year-round if conditions allow, and fishing is allowed at all hours.
Deweese is primarily a trout fishery stocked regularly with catchable rainbow trout, but it also stocked with put-and-grow McConaughy rainbows that have been growing fast and large due to the reduction in the sucker population. 16-20 inch rainbows are not uncommon. The reduction in suckers is attributed to plentiful stocking of tiger muskie, which exist in the lake but not in large numbers. Many tigers are lost down stream during spillover, and make their way down to Pueblo Reservoir.
Grape Creek Running thru the town of Westcliffe into DeWeese Reservoir, then flowing into the high mountain meadows below the reservoir, Grape Creek is a small stream delight for fly fisherman. Containing Rainbow, Browns and Brook trout, it offers the angler a variety of game fish challenges. 
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