Though you wouldn’t have believed it yesterday with the cloud cover all day and highs (at my place at least) not breaking 70 – the neighborhood remains in the grip of summer. The Henry’s Fork is not known for fishing astoundingly well during the dog days, but there’s enough going on to keep things interesting […]
Henry’s Fork
As fly anglers have noted on just about every other water in the neighborhood, bug and fish behavior has changed quite a bit over the past several weeks. Gone are the rainy and cool days of June; here are the hot, dusty days of summer. River flows have remained stable since the big jump on […]
There’s been more than one person in the know opine that the HF is fishing more like the old days than ever before. I happen to be one of those who never fished the Fork during her ‘glory days’ of the past, so I can’t personally make the call – but there are […]
The Henry’s Fork is offering up an impressive array of options for the fly fisher desiring a wide menu of choices and challenges. It’s starting to look a lot like summer on the Fork in terms of bugs and weather. Flows in the Box have remained pretty skinny (compared to long term averages) over the […]
We’ve been running around like chickens with our heads off the past week or so and have not been down on the lower Henry’s as we’d planned to do around the 15th. Where the hell has the month of June gone? Jake has overheard some grousing (and worse) in his store of late regarding the […]
For the most part good news from our friends down south on the Henry’s Fork. The entire river is open and fishing as of the 15th. Flows out of the Lake were cut again yesterday – cut pretty impressively as you can see from this morning’s flow chart. The good news is that low flows […]
There are a few noteworthy things to ponder when considering the Henry’s Fork over the next week or so. First of all the Harriman stretch opens next Monday on the 15th; there are folks who travel in from all over the world to enjoy the spectacle and the Green Drakes. If you’ve not seen it […]
While a snap (above) from the Island Park HF webcam this morning shows no evidence of the weekend’s wintery weather, the flow chart below shows something that we’re really not seeing anywhere else in the neighborhood – below seasonal average flows on a river. Stoneflies more or less swept through the river last week without much […]
Big Stoneflies are the big news this week on the Henry’s Fork of the Snake. They’ve moved up to the middle section of the river (Riverside to Warm River) and are migrating subsurface in the Box. For those willing to earn some great fishing with sweat equity in terms of access there are some sections […]
A few intrepid neighbors chose to eschew the opening day crowds in Yellowstone (more in a bit) and headed down to the lower Henry’s Fork to chase stoneflies – yes, stoneflies. The stonefly army has emerged on the stretch below the Ashton Dam; as you’d expect early in the game big bad stonefly nymphs are the […]
There’s some buzz beginning to build as the traditional opening day for most of the upper river is fast approaching (Saturday the 23rd). All water upstream of the Riverside Campground will open on the 23rd except for the Railroad Ranch (15 June). While flows are on the rise in the entire system, there are those […]
The fishable window for the upcoming week will be narrowing as warm temperatures blanket the region by the weekend and into next week. The Falls River has more or less blown the river below the confluence, and flows are rising system wide. The best water on the river has been the Vernon to Chester Dam […]
Henry’s Fork fans understand that most fishing this time of year is done down off the plateau; that won’t be the case for long with the upper most section of the river soon to open. Flows have increased this week on the upper river, and have bumped quite a bit over the past three days […]
As you can see from the snap taken around 4 yesterday afternoon off the Island Park webcam, the late spring snow ventured as far south as Island Park / Last Chance, though there’s sure not much left on the ground at the water’s edge, is there? Fishing conditions and the options are little changed from […]
The report from Henry’s Fork of the Snake territory really hasn’t changed a great deal from last week’s notes. One thing that has changed is the amount of snow down in Island Park – compare the web cam picture from yesterday afternoon above to one week ago. Folks are beginning to talk about the opening of the […]
