Snake River Fishing on the Snake is off the charts at the moment with trout rising to a variety of dry flies and taking nymphs and streamers with voracity on all reaches.  PMDs remain the primary fare for fish, but they are complemented by claassenia stoneflies, hecubas, caddis, mahogany duns, as well as grasshoppers and some BWOs and crane flies.  It is a literal smorgasbord for trout right now.  Dry fly fishing is where it…
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Snake River The monsoon this past week intensified productivity on the Snake, yielding strong hatches of PMDs, hecubas, mahogany duns, and even some BWOs on every reach.  Imitations of these bugs were certainly effective.  However, larger attractors and streamers were also effective.  Skies are forecasted to clear this week and temperatures will warm, but don’t expect mid to high 80s for the rest of the season.  We should be in the comfortable 70s, and this…
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Snake River Flows from Jackson Lake Dam have been reduced to 2000 cfs over this past weekend.  The Snake is fishing very well and is getting better with each passing day.  Claassenia stoneflies are the primary fare on the water and they are literally everywhere.  However, we continue to see PMDs and caddis.  There are also a LOT of grasshoppers on the banks.  As an added bonus, there has been significant movement by Hecuba larva…
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Snake River The monsoonal flow from this past week has not been a detriment to the fishing on the Snake and, in some ways, has made it even more productive.  Every reach is fishing well, including Moose to Wilson, which has been kind of a hold out section until this past week when it finally turned on.  Large surface attractors are the way to go in all water types from banks and structure to riffles…
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Snake River The Snake is on and fishing better than just about anything else in the region. All reaches of the stream are fishing well with dry flies, dry-dropper rigs, and streamers. There are still some moderate emergences of PMDs and caddis (the latter in the morning primarily), but this is in no way impacting the very good fishing being found just about everywhere in the Snake drainage. Imitations of grasshoppers are carpenter ants (both…
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