Snake River Recent (an we mean VERY recent) cool temps, precipitation, and cloud cover have sparked emergences of Hecuba and mahogany duns, making riffles, seams, confluences, eddies, and side channels key targets with mayfly imitations. Claassenia is also out and will be so for another two-plus weeks.  This means foam and heavily hackled attractors continue to produce in most waters, but especially along banks, structure, in troughs, and along the inside current margin of riffles. …
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Snake River Claassenia are peaking and the best action is coming on attractors that are deliberately moved when fished along banks, structure, troughs, seams, and riffle current margins.  PMDs have been making more of an appearance from around 12:30 pm until 4pm and Hecuba is also coming out, although not a true surge of bugs quite yet.  Their imitations are working best in riffles, side channels, slow current margins of seams, eddies, and banks with…
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Snake River The Snake is starting to get into late-season shape with a reduction in natural flows and exquisitely clear water.  All reaches are fishing well.  Claassenia continues to emerge and grasshoppers are populating the banks, which makes large and moderately sized baitfish imitations worthwhile – especially in the morning – although there is a waning in activity on these bugs as fish have seen a LOT of them, and activity slows by 2pm most…
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Snake River Water temperatures have decreased with cooling weather.  Claassenia has been about and is most prevalent from Moose down to Sheep Gulch.  While caddis are around in the morning hours and there are a few yellow sallies from time-to-time, PMDs dominate the surface action – although not is big numbers – from around noon until 4pm or so.  Side channels, troughs, and riffle pools have offered the best surface production.  Eddies are another option…
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Snake River Water temps have cooled some with gauges peaking around 65-66 degrees after 5pm each day.  However, above average air temps have returned, so be prepared to alter your fishing practices in the coming days/weeks.  On August 2nd and August 3rd, the gauges at Moose and Swinging Bridge broke 68 degrees. We should see more of this going into the first full week of the month. Hatches have waned some but there are some…
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