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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Snake River Variable weather over the past two weeks with some days in the mid-40s and a few chilly days here and there. However, there has been little by way of overnight lows below zero.  This means we have had almost no ice flow on the river.  The few times that it has happened it has melted off by 2pm generally.  All this adds up to open water just about everywhere. Much of the fishing…
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It has been a fun year at Snake River Angler.  We had lots of water to play with and good fishing just about everywhere once the runoff settled down.  Here are a few things that stood out on our water in 2017 – Where did the mud go? Going into April, most of us were sure that we were looking at something similar to 2011. That year, we the Snake did clear until the second…
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Snake River Strange that we are getting deeper in winter and the dry fly fishing on the Snake is better than it has been over the previous three weeks. Much of this is due to the warmer than average temperatures that we are experiencing. There are no blue-winged olives to speak of, but midges come out in force at around 12pm and build in intensity until around 3pm when things begin to wane.  Don’t expect…
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Snake River Cooler temps in Snake River country but we are still getting many days in the upper 30s to upper 40s and a respectable amount of surface action in the afternoon on midge and blue-winged olive imitations. Slow water targets at the margin, tailout, and inside head of riffles are the prime water types to hit.  There is also decent activity in eddies and side channel confluences, although not as consistent as you will…
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