Snake River Its gorgeous out there, but you definitely have to work for your fish with the weather remaining warmish and sunny.  PMDs are hatching in intermittent fashion.  We are also seeing a few mahogany duns, one or two Hecubas every couple of days, and we are starting to see October caddis finally.  The most consistent surface action is occurring on mayfly adult and emerger patterns at the head of riffles, in slower riffle pools,…
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Snake River Flows from Jackson Lake Dam are at winter levels for the next several months.  Surface action remains good on all reaches, although not as strong as a couple of weeks ago, no doubt due to the high pressure and sunshine that has settled into the area.  The upside – air temps have cooled into the mid-60s to mid-70s over the past few days.  PMDs, mahogany duns, and Hecubas continue to emerge in intermittent…
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Snake River Flows from Jackson Lake Dam will be ramping down starting September 24th and will be at winter levels of approximately 325cfs on September 27th. Every reach is fishing well with the lower reaches from Wilson Bridge down to Sheep Gulch taking the cake as usual in autumn.  There is still a good smorgasbord of mayflies with Hecubas, infrequen PMDs, and mahoganies out each day and BWOs making a little bit of an appearance…
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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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