News and Fishing Reports

Each Spring Rene, Marty and I manage to get out on the water in late May for a few hours. The ritual, which is always met with great anticipation, is predictable: We meet at TroutHunter and buy a few gigantic orange flies, proceed to the Grubstake to load up on Natty Lites and ice, then laugh our...

Saturday, May 24th, was the Idaho general fishing season opener and anglers across the state were greeted with high, and in most cases, muddy water due to the Spring snow melt. The Henry's Fork was no exception. In spite of the higher than normal flows the Box Canyon, which has clear water by the...

Another morning shared with the mosquitoes!! It's 5:30am and Ned and I are getting ready to launch the boat for my third and final day in the glades. The tides will be low between now and about 10am. He fires up the Yamaha and idles through the Manatee zone between us and the Tarpon. The first...

I fly in, get my $20 rental car, drive for an hour and a half, sleep for three hours, and meet Capt. Ned Small at the boat ramp. So here I stand, on the front of a skiff in the Everglades, and we see Tarpon in the first spot we stop. To make a long story short, I dropped the line out of my...

Let me give you a taste of the chase for some of the biggest brown trout in the world at the end of the earth. I fall out of bed after six hours of sleep as we had dinner at midnight the night before. The cooler is in the truck and 12-14 foot two handed rods loaded with short-head and...

The 24th annual Henry's Fork Day is June 21, 2008. It is largest event for the Henry's Fork Foundation, the voice of the river. Please support the Foundation and attend this event. If you are interested in donating cash or auction items, it would be greatly appreciated. Call Rich at...

It was 52 degrees with intermittent, gusty winds at game time on Cinco de Mayo at the Vernon boat launch for the first game of the season between the hometown Fish of the Fork and the Visiting Anglers from Texas and southern Idaho, respectively. The fish got some strong pitching in the early...

For the first time in nearly twenty years Bonnie and I will not be moving back to Island Park on the first weekend of May. The new month was greeted on Thursday by a brisk storm that deposited a couple of inches of snow overnight. While it had melted away by noon here in St. Anthony, it was a...

Between May 1st & May 22nd we are offering Guide Trips for $375 for one or two anglers. A streamside lunch is included. We will even throw in rental rods & waders. There is no sales tax. Flies, terminal tackle, and guide gratuity are not included. We are also offering a guide / room combo for...