Snake River The March warm up is officially underway. Temperatures over the past week have been in the mid-40s just about every day.  This is making for some very comfortable fishing. The main bugs on the water have been midges and Capnia stoneflies, both of which you will find on the surface during the afternoon hours.  Midges, in fact, are everywhere and can carpet the water and the banks in many places.  Fishing has been…
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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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