Snake River A lot of back and forth on the Snake at the moment.  Cooler, wetter days are producing solid hatches of midges and BWOs.  Warmer days can produce the same as well as good numbers of Capnias and spring emergences of October caddis.  Dry fly action is best from about 11:30am until 3pm, after which surface feeding wanes noticeably even as hatches continue.  Target side channels, seams, eddies, and the head of riffles. Double…
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Snake River Warm, spring temps and good surface action on the Snake from around noon until around 6pm with the middle (Moose to Wilson) and lower (South Park to Alpine) offering the production. Midges still dominate the scene and capnia continues to emerge in fair numbers after noon. Slow water targets – ledge rock pools, riffle pools, and eddies – are fishing best early.  Later in the afternoon, faster currents – particularly seams and sweeping…
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Snake River Wilson and South Park boat ramps are now open.  Decent fishing on the Snake continues with better surface action.  There have even been hookups on larger foam attractors.  We are starting to see a more Capnia stoneflies with each passing day.  No consistent action on their imitations but that will be happening soon no doubt.While slower water types remain the place to target, we are now seeing more action in faster currents –…
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Snake River Topsy-turvy temperatures over the past couple of weeks but the past few days have offered fairly warm weather and the fishing has been both comfortable and improving.  Midges continue to dominate with ledge rock pools and eddies producing best.  Going no deeper than four feet in the water column will work in most holding water with nymph rigs.  Surface action has been good enough after 12pm most days that tandem dries and dry-dropper…
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Snake River Noticeably warmer that what we have had throughout most of January and the first week of February.  Midge imitations are working best in ledge rock pools, eddies, and seams separating backwater channels from main currents.  Surface action is occurring in a tight window from approximately 2pm until 4pm.  Nymphs will produce from around noon until 4pm.  Double/triple nymph rigs are worth using in pools of six feet of depth or more before 2pm. …
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