We've been in a serious cold spell in the valley recently. The temperatures here have been about as cold as I have seen them for as long as I've seen them in the valley. Normal morning temperatures have been between -15 and -10 with daytime highs not being much above 0. Needless to say, this means we haven't been doing any fishing recently and the skiing has only been ok because we've been in a dry spell. On the plus side the water levels are about normal for this time of year so hopefully we'll be good to go for the summer. As we get into February I plan to start doing more fishing and may have more to write about. I am having shoulder surgery soon so that will put an end to my ski season and probably motivate me to fish a bit more, even though I'll have to use my left arm. Here are a few pictures from this past year that I don't think I've posted yet. Take care.

Here's a brief video that one of our guides posted on YouTube from our guides trip. Just copy and paste the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpQcSei21U0&feature=share&list=UUDHkYgi5ECkXW5-GKGBN24g

11/15/12

Cold winter weather is finally setting in here. Lots of cloudy, snowing days but the sunny days are still fishing really well. No more dry fly action at this point, its all sub-surface with nymphs or streamers. The mackinaw fishing has been pretty good in Jackson lake with the macks moving in shallow with the cold temps. Here are some pictures from our guides trip a few weeks ago. It was a great trip with tons of pictures so I'm just starting to get them sorted.

11/1/12

I've had to accept that between work and taking classes I'm not going to have nearly as much time to post reports as I once did. I do, however, have lots of good pictures to put up here in the next week or so. The fishing has been incredible and I've spent lots of quality fishing time with some good friends over the past month. These pictures are from a trip Weldon and I took up to the Henry's fork back in October. Weldon and I met up with Jeff Currier, Josh Gallivan, Granny, and our good friend from out of town, Evan Schwanfelder. Schwany and I once worked in the fly shop together and it had been many years since we'd fished together. We had great hatches and some decent streamer fishing. It was a great trip and the nights at the Trouthunter were especially memorable.

9/15

Fishing has been great with fall conditions beginning to set in. These photos are from two weekends ago, one is of a 4.5lb rainbow I was able to nymph up and the other is of a 21inch brown that ate a hopper even though it was sipping tricos. I did also guide this past weekend for the One Fly tournament. The fishing on the snake was pretty good, but not as good as it had been the past week or so. Lots of pressure leading up to One Fly I guess. I'll be fishing again tomorrow with a buddy so hopefully I'll have more fishing to post on in the near future.

8/28

I'll be the first to admit that I've been terrible about keeping my blog updated this year. Now that I'm working with the school district again and have some more time I'll hopefully be able to post a little more frequently. The Snake has been excellent as of recent with perfect flows and great dry fly fishing. The South Fork, on the other hand, has been pretty fickle. I don't know what's happened to that river this year but its been interesting. The nymphing is great and there asre still plenty of fish but the dry fly fishing has been spotty at best. I'll let you know how some of the other rivers are fishing now that I'll have some time to fish on my own. Here are a few pictures from the past couple weeks of fishing.

I'm sorry for my terrible lack of postings recently, the fishing has just been too good to take a break from. Everything in the area is fishing well. The south fork has some great hatches going on, the green still has plenty of water, and the Snake has been fishing great with many of the bigger fish starting to drop out of the tribs and ending up in the main river. The recent thunderstorms have really helped our water situation and hopefully they won't have to bump the flows for irrigation reasons later in the year. Here are a few pictures from some recent fishing trips. On is of a 22inch rainbow I caught while fishing with my dad in colorado, one is of an 18 inch cutty that Jay Brunker pulled out of the snake on a recent trip, and one is of a 24inch cutty I caught on a local pond just the other day. I'm pretty excited to have caught that fish. It was all sight fishing, the take was beautiful, and best of all it ate a dry fly on 2x tippet which made the fight nice and easy.