Culebra Creek in the San Luis River Valley in Southern Colorado.

The waters from this fishery will traverse thorough the beautiful and scenic San Luis Valley and eventually flow into the famous Rio Grande. This fishery is Culebra Creek and it begins northeast of Sanchez Reservoir, a cool-water reservoir known for healthy northerns and walleyes. The headwaters of Culebra come from the western slope of Sangre de Cristo's where the most southern peak in Colorado that is over 14,000 feet is Culebra Peak. The Culebra and several smaller creeks and streams all have a northwesterly destination, with many of the smaller creeks and streams journey ending when it meets with the Culebra. Slowly it meanders just north of Sanchez Reservoir. As the cool tailwaters out of Sanchez flow into Culebra, the creek grows in size, gently it will oxbow and snake its way through the valley, delicately craving undercuts along its banks. At times the land allows for shallow gravel bars, long clear glides and some deep pool stretches. It is this vicinity where the waters have become and ideal trout habitat. The fish on average are by no means large in comparison to some of Colorado other tributaries, but they good sized in relation to the creek's size. Some browns in Culebra are in the 4 and 5 pound range, but on average you can expect browns and rainbows short of 14 inches.