Snake River With the Snake in runoff, the tailwater reach from Jackson Lake Dam down to Pacific Creek is the obvious choice, and it just opened to fishing this past Monday.  Flows are at a little over 3,000cfs and visibility is at three to four feet.  Cold water temps, so surface action is extremely limited.  Double/triple nymph rigs are the best approach.  Fish these in the thalweg below the spillway, eddies, seams, and along banks…
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South Fork Flows from Palisades Reservoir stand at approximately 15,300cfs.  Still around three feet of visibility on the upper reach and around two feet on the lower reaches.  Water temps are cool so surface action is not in the cards most days.  Nymphs and streamers, however, have been performing in a respectable manner.  With the higher flows, fish double and triple nymphs rigs with between nine and twelve feet of leader from your trailing pattern…
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Snake River Warm spring temps have put most of the Snake into runoff, or at least on the cusp of it.  The tailwater reach below Jackson Lake dam obviously has the most visibility.  However, with GTNP closed, it is inaccessible.  The reaches from Pacific Creek down to the Hoback River has around 18” of visibility.  Below the Hoback, we are looking at maybe a few inches.  There are more skwalas about, but with decreased visibility,…
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Snake River Flows from Jackson Lake Dam stand at approximately 850cfs. With water temperatures knocking on the door of 50 degrees, we are now starting to see our first skwalas of the year on the mid-reaches of the Snake from the GTNP boundary south to Snake River Canyon.  It’s just a smattering, but more will be on the way.  This is giving anglers the opportunity to fish #10 to #8 attractors through most of the…
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Snake River It is definitely April on the Snake.  Expect god action on dry flies and streamers and even better on nymph rigs fished in semi-shallow (call it five to seven feet from line/indicator to trailing fly).  Time frame for action on streamers and surface flies is varying noticeably.  At times it is wide – 10am until 4pm.  Other times it is shorter – 11pm to 2:30pm.  Either way, milk the action you are getting…
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