Category: Harrop’S Forked Tongues

Shortly before leaving for St. Anthony and the lower Henry’s Fork where Bonnie and I spend half the year, I chatted with Rich and Jon over coffee at TroutHunter. It was a cold morning in late October and our conversation centered on the end of the primary fishing season and how quickly it has…

Like the weather, a river is changed by the seasons. In October the Henry’s Fork flows are at about 25% of peak summer levels and the resulting changes in the fishery are multiple. This essentially applies to the slow water sections beginning at Last Chance Run and extending through Harriman…

With a variety of caddis, PMDs, Callibaetis, Tricos, and even a few Gray Drakes on the August hatch menu, it might seem rather greedy to anticipate even greater diversity in insect availability on the Henry’s Fork. However, this is exactly what mid-summer brings in terms of dry fly…

Announcing a rare opportunity to own nearly 6 prime acres of Island Park real estate. Located in the Last Chance area, this unique parcel is comprised of 2 lots of approximately 3 acres each. It borders U.S. Forest Service land on one side and is situated about 400 yards from the Henry’s…

January of 2014 brought a return to the reality of periodic years when low precipitation and high agricultural demand do not permit the ideal winter conditions the Henry’s Fork has enjoyed for the past 5 years. With flows from Island Park Reservoir averaging 200 cfs and two brief but rather…

In recent years I have sometimes struggled to separate the personal importance of fishing hatches larger than size 18 or leaving the season of gloves, heavy fleece, and covered ears. In most years, however, both comforts tend to arrive together around early May when conditions are right for…

The Henry’s Fork is known as possessing a very dense and diversified population of mayflies. It exists in a region that features four distinct seasons with each containing its own menu of aquatic hatches. Mayfly hatches seem to arrive in sequence according to weather conditions rather than a hard…

For a fly fisher, surviving winter at high elevation is usually an arduous and inconsistent process. Snow and bitter cold temperatures can dominate the weather for months at a time and a visit to the river is often times only to watch through the months of December, January, and February. With…

As in all recent years, the attention of the Henry’s Fork community was trained on winter flows from Island Park Reservoir at the arrival of 2013. And while carry over storage in the reservoir rather than abundant early snowfall make it possible, negotiated flows were again adequate for trout…