Snake River Dry fly fishing on the Snake has been excellent on the lower reaches from Moose Bridge down to Sheep Gulch with tour rising to blue-winged olives, PMDs, and mahogany dun imitations during the afternoon hours. Riffles, seams, eddies and submerged structure are the prime targets.  Actions starts around noon and intensifies until 5pm or 6pm.  Takes have been fairly slow, so slow down on your hook set.  Tandem rigs – dun trailed by…
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Snake River The Snake is in prime October form with both stream levels and bugs on the water, which include PMDs, mahogany duns, blue-winged olives and caddis.  Most of the surface action is starting around noon and lasts into the early evening hours.  Prior to this grabby fish can be had on dry-dropper rigs.Most days are producing good to great action, but there will be slower days here-and-there as well. The middle sections from Moose…
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Snake River Fishing continues to be solid on the Snake as it typically is this time of year with continuing hatches of Hecubas, mahogany duns, October caddis, infrequen PMDs, and blue-winged olives.  It is a true smorgasbord on most days, but expect mahogany duns and blue-wings to dominate the scene on colder and wetter days. Hatches and surface action are best from about 10am until 4pm, with the afternoon hours from 11:30am to 3pm being…
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Snake River Nice, cool and wet weather moved through the Snake River region over this past week, bringing with it broader hatches and more intense surface action most days. Warmer weather is on the way, although the forecast does not call for anything over 70 degrees. Autumn is finally here. The most productive fishing is occurring from approximately 11am until late afternoon. This has been the time of the day when mahogany duns, infrequen PMDs,…
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