Snake River Flows from Jackson Lake Dam at approximately 2,500cfs. Lot of water but there is substantial clarity. The Snake is fishing best on the lower reaches from Moose Bridge down to Sheep Gulch. Dry fly action is squarely in the late afternoon hours, primarily with BWO and midge imitations. It is almost exclusively midges on the water but skwalas are just around the corner and should be appearing this week. However, with high flows…
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Snake River Angler Fly Fishing Report for April 1st, 2018
Snake River Warmer temps the past two week has kicked off spring in a good way for the Snake. Still a lot of midges around but a lot more Capnias and more consistent emergences of blue-winged olives in the afternoon regardless of cloud cover and precipitation. Dry fly fishing has been best from about 11am until around 4pm. The most consistency is still found in slower margin of seams and in eddies and back channels…
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Snake River Angler Fly Fishing Report for March 16th, 2018
Snake River The March warm up is officially underway. Temperatures over the past week have been in the mid-40s just about every day. This is making for some very comfortable fishing. The main bugs on the water have been midges and Capnia stoneflies, both of which you will find on the surface during the afternoon hours. Midges, in fact, are everywhere and can carpet the water and the banks in many places. Fishing has been…
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Snake River Angler Fly Fishing Report for March 2nd, 2018
Snake River Variable air temperatures again over the past month but when it has been warm (35 degrees-plus, particularly the first half of the month) fishing has been decent on the surface and better than decent below the surface on nymphs and streamers. Midges continue to dominate the scene with afternoon top water feeding occurring along riffle margins, riffle tailouts, the tail of seams, and in eddies. These are good place to fish both midge…
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Snake River Angler Fly Fishing Report for January 16th, 2018
Snake River Same story as we have had for the past month – variable temps with some chilly days and other days well into the 40s. There has been very little by way of ice flow on the river and even slow eddies and dead water back channels have been free of ice the vast majority of days. Recirculating eddies with slow currents as well as slow water seams and the current margin of riffle…
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