Category: Fishing Reports

Happy Weekend, all! We’ve had a brief return to normalcy weatherwise around here the last few days with afternoon showers and thunderstorms rolling in and cooling things off and dropping some much needed moisture on us. That said, we’re looking at potential record highs next week. So…

Greeting friends! Here we go again. Summer is in full swing: the rivers are busy, the shop and restaurant are bustling, and we’ve been seeing mid-80 temperatures this week (which is waaaaaaaay too early).Here’s the newest email from Jamie at The Henry’s Fork Foundation: “Outflow from Island…

Ranch fishing during the year of COVID-19 was productive; however, that was balanced by significant declines in some species of aquatic and terrestrial insects which, as I shall address in detail in this piece, essentially deprived us of three of our most enjoyable types of dry fly fishing.My…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Summer has arrived here in Island Park — finally. While the cooler temps and clouds were great for fishing, it’s been nice to see the sun. (We’ll probably be praying for clouds and rain in a week or two). With that said, fishing continues to be very good. To date, hatches have been excellent…

It’s been a wild weather week here on the caldera. Started out sunny and warm with highs near 80, and it’s currently 40 degrees and raining at high noon. It does NOT feel like July out there, but it looks like we should get back to normal later this week and that summer is finally…