News and Fishing Reports

Box Canyon: The "Box" continues to produce great fishing day after day after day. Granted, this is not the first choice for a serious dry fly fisherman. However, if you are an avid nymph fisherman, or you don't mind fishing two fly rigs under a strike indicator, this is the place for you. I...

Box Canyon: The Box has fished very well over the past couple of days and I predict it will continue to do so. Our guides are having their best luck fishing tandem rigs of rubber legs and smaller beadhead nymphs. We suggest black, brown, and coffee/black rubber legs in sizes #4 and #6 teamed...

Anglers that came to the Henry s great guiding instincts that turned the latter half of the day into a slug fest with several of the biggest rainbow trout I have encountered anywhere. I have spent the last 33 years of my life in the fly fishing industry and I have met, known, or worked with...

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...

Historically we no longer expect to add to snow pack levels after the 15th of April. What we have by mid-April is all we should expect to get. However, as I write this report a huge storm is coming across the border from Canada, it is expected to arrive sometime during the next 24 to 36 hours...

We are more than 80% into our 2008 snow season and snowpacks are still looking very good. The latest figures for the Henry's Fork drainage puts us at 111% of average for our snowpack and 106% of average for water content. Over in Montana the most recent reports show the Madison River drainage...