Year: 2020
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Lucky People
In the high elevation of Henry’s Fork country, inconsistent is the only way to describe fall weather. Certainly, there are times when one can be convinced that winter lies far into the distance when the temperature is comfortable and the trout are rising. In most years, winter type weather is…
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A Quiet Time
Though gradual in arriving, the warning signs are there. And the vicious cold front invading Island Park in the last week of October came as no surprise to anyone with a meaningful history in this small mountain hamlet.With most seasonal residents having escaped to warmer clime and the…
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A Ticking Time Bomb
The sizable sediment event effecting the Henry’s Fork below Island Park Dam on September eleven might have become old news if not for the fact that the river has continued to run dirty at that location since that time. Of course, this is of grave concern for anglers who fish this highly…
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Extremes
To say that August was a month of extremes for the Henry’s Fork fishing community might be an understatement. With release from Island Park Reservoir far above recent maximums, unusually high-water levels marked all but a few days in the month leading into fall. While noticeably disruptive to…
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Report 8/10/20
This will be my last report for a while as I make the transition back to Driggs/Victor and teaching. I’ll try to make some appearances here and there but probably won’t be able to keep this a weekly thing. It’s been fun, and I appreciate all the kind words. Flow out of IP dam is…
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Love in the time of COVID
Well it was bound to happen…A bar things are crystal clear. It’s been hot up here the last few days with temps pushing 90. I can see many of you in the South and back East rolling your eyes and scoffing at me that that’s not hot, but trust me, at 6500 feet it’s plenty…
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Warm Days on the Henry’s Fork
With the rays of a low angled sun filtering through a shimmering cloud of transparent wings, the day holds promise. You must rise early to catch the Trico spinner fall on placid water coursing slowly through broad meadows that are now beginning to assume the auburn hue of an approaching autumn. In…
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Report 7/27/20
From Jamie at HFF: "Outflow from Island Park Dam is being decreased this morning (7/27) in two, ~100 cfs increments to a new estimated outflow of ~1,150 cfs. The stream gage is still reading a bit high due to aquatic vegetation in the stream channel.Outflow will likely be reduced further this…
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Report 7/20/20
1680 cfs. Yes, 1680. There’s a lot of water moving out back at this writing. We should only have a few days left at this level, and it’s anticipated that this will be max outflow for the remainder of the summer. We should start seeing incremental drops in flow in the next week or so…
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Report 7/13/20
Bad news first. We didn’t get the hopeful 1200 cfs max out of Island Park Reservoir last week. Flows are currently running at about 1550 cfs. Here’s a quick note from the Foundation: "Outflow from Island Park Dam was increased this morning (7/10) by ~300 cfs to a new outflow of ~1,550 cfs to…