Snake River Variable temperatures over the past couple of weeks have shifted water the water you should target from time to time.  With ice flow occurring some mornings, the best option is to target slow current back channels where buildup is minimal.  Warmer overnight lows will lessen ice on the water, allowing anglers to target eddies and riffle pools. Streamer fishing has been inconsistent but is best slow water at the edge of seams and…
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Snake River A fair amount of ice flow earlier in the month due to freezing overnight temps but overnights are noticeably warmer now allowing for decent to good action from around 10am until 4pm.  Surface action is in a three hour window (noon until 3pm) and best in slow current riffles and in side channels at times.  Nymphing has been working consistent throughout most of the day and are working best in slow current eddies…
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Snake River The lower reaches from South Park Bridge down to Sheep Gulch is the place to be with fish concentrated in ledge rock pools, troughs with mid-range depth, backwater side channels, and seams.  Whitefish egg patterns are working best in riffles and troughs (particularly those squeezed between riffle shelves and banks).  Midge imitations are working in all water mention above).  It has been a fairly wide window of activity, with consistent action happening from…
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Snake River With low flows and cooling water temps, trout are clearly moving into their wintering water, especially backwater side channels, eddies, and riffle pools with at least moderate depth.  Most of the surface feeding has been on chironomids and BWOs, often from around 11am until 4pm.  There is decent action on nymphs fished as part of a dry-dropper combo, although action is best early in the day in deeper water with double/triple nymph rigs…
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Snake River Good but inconsistent fishing with the best action happening on the lower reaches from South Park down to Sheep Gulch.  Trout are beginning to pod up in their winter pools, especially ledge rock pools, eddies, and side channels.  Midges are the primary hatch, but BWOs are about in the afternoon most days and can be heavy on those days with cloud cover and precipitation.  And the afternoon is the best time to be…
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