Year: 2017
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Report May 24, 2017
Salmonflies! Salmonflies! Salmonflies! Let the madness begin. The adult bugs showed up in force on Sunday and I must say it has been a pretty impressive hatch to start. The big bugs are spread out from the Ora Bridge down to the Chester backwater. Below Chester there are a few bugs…
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Report May 17, 2017
You know what they say! If you like/don’t like the Idaho weather just wait five minutes it will change. After treating us to five days of beautiful Spring weather at the beginning of the month Mother Nature decided it was time to slip back into winter (almost). The blue bird weather of…
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Report May 8, 2017
April was a lion of a month weather wise but May has come in as gentle as a lamb. Over the years I have come to look forward to the months of April and October with great anticipation. In April the summer fishermen have not arrived yet and by October they have all but left.…
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Positives
Anyone who fished the caldera section of the Henry’s Fork from late June through August of last year was exposed to considerable disruption in terms of water level and clarity. With flows too high for comfortable wading and clouded by sediment, some stretches between Box Canyon and Riverside…
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Report April 26, 2017
It’s late April and after a long winter we locals look forward to some nice spring weather and some of our favorite fishing of the entire year. A weekend trip to Idaho Falls teased us with 70 degree temperatures, blue skies, green grass, blooming tulips and short skirts. But, as is often the…
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An April Menu
That spring is a process is never clearer than to a fly fisherman. And while those who live at the high elevation of Island Park are only now beginning to see signs of a changing season, on the lower Henry’s Fork it appears that spring has actually arrived. While checking on our cabin last week…
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Courage
John McDaniel’s annual Ranch report (read it here) is something that I look forward to as much as anything that appears on the TroutHunter website. With more than thirty years as a base of experience, McDaniel is not only a highly qualified river guide but a most credible source of…
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Catching up at TroutHunter
In late January, anyone driving into Last chance, Idaho from points south will encounter a different world than what most folks who visit this community are accustomed to finding. Rather than fly fishing, the main driving force for both recreation and commerce is snowmobiling and there is no…br clear=”all” />
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The 2016 Season on the Harriman Ranch
From 2012 through 2015, it was fun to write my annual report on Ranch fishing. This year it is difficult. My clients and I invested more than 400 hours on the water between 15 June and 11 September. We had a few days of good fishing, but there were many terrible days. I am not…
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A Hopeful Look Forward
Over what has become a fairly long life, I have come to understand that it is hope more than anything that allows us to weather difficult times. In the Rocky Mountain west, 2016 was a very difficult year for many of our most well-known fisheries. Examples are the Yellowstone River in Montana…