Snake River Hatches are waning as we get deeper into summer, with a smattering of caddis, PMDs, and yellow sallies each day. Grasshoppers are becoming more prevalent Dry and dry-droppers are working well in almost all water types with the forest service sections below South Park producing slightly more consistently than those reaches further upstream.  Banks, riffles, seams, and confluences are the key waters to target.  You can go long – 4ft to 6ft –…
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Snake River Golden stones are prevalent upstream of Moose Bridge and caddis, PMDs, and yellow sallies are appearing on every reach, some days in strong numbers.  The sweet spot continues to befrom around 10:30am until around 4:30pm, although there has been more than respectable action as early as 8:30am (especially on parallel drop-offs and several feet off of banks).  Multiple water types are producing, including riffles and confluences.  Seams and troughs (particularly those formed along…
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Snake River Flows continue to drop, visibility continues to increase, and hatches continue to pop.  The Snake has been fishing good since the summer solstice outside of an increase in level when the last surge of melting snow occurred.  Golden stoneflies, caddis, PMDs, yellow sallies, and green drakes are all emerging each day.  Expect to see caddis dominate in the morning and PMDs in the afternoon, with the other bugs mentioned above around in the…
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Snake River Flows continue to drop as tributaries quickly recede and visibility is shaping up nicely.  The best fishing has been in the afternoon hours from around 1:30pm to 5:30pm, and this includes surface feeding.  PMDs, yellow sallies, and the smaller golden stones are out after 10am but caddis kick into gear shortly thereafter and completely dominate from 2pm on (the latter is the most reliant hatch at the moment).  When using surface patterns in…
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Snake River Runoff on the Snake has peaked but the tailwater reach from Jackson Lake Dam to Pacific Creek remains the only section with fishable visibility.  Flows are currently at 5,500 cfs and there are a lot more lake trout in the river .  Action is best in the spillway as well as deep recirculating eddies seam, and slow current riffles.  Both streamers and tandem nymph rigs are working well, with the former being ALMOST…
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