July 25th

Sorry for the delay in posting. I've been super busy this year and barely have a free minute to post. In summary the fishing has been very good. The green and new fork are getting low and warm so that's on the way out. The Snake has been high but actually fishing very well in the park. The south fork is apparently fishing well in the mornings but slowing in the afternoon with higher temps. There are also some other options around. I think this is the year of fishing alternative stretches and fishing earlier in the day. I'll post some client pictures here soon but for the time being here are some more pictures from my Belize trip.

Belize!

I just got back from an amazing fishing trip in Belize with my dad. We'd been planning this trip for a long time now and I think my dad is hooked on tarpon. My dad and I left on June 26th and headed down for a week of fishing (we sent my girlfriend and mom to Las Vegas instead of dragging them along). We thought we were in some serious trouble when we got down there. The area had just been hit by a tropical depression and many of the rivers we had planned to fish were at major flood levels. We must have hit the fishing just right. Our first three days were some of the most amazing saltwater fishing I've ever seen. We found lots of tarpon, including the big boys, cruising the ocean flats, eating everything you would throw at them. We landed tarpon up to between 100-115 lbs, the biggest one landed escaped our grasp just as we were trying to get a good photo of it. We also had great permit and snook fishing while we were down there. In one day we managed to hook 4 permit and land 3 of them! I spent a whole week fishing just for permit years ago in Belize and between two of us we never hooked a single permit. These were big boys too with the largest being 22lbs and the smallest being 19lbs. We did also manage some nice snook with the biggest one coming in at 7 lbs. All in all it was an awesome trip. From there I headed to Vermont for a buddy's wedding. It was a great time and my friend Greg and I stayed on for two additional day to try and catch some muskie in the rivers. Unfortunately the northeast has been pounded by rain and the fishing was poor. Greg had one follow and I did manage to have one muskie eat at the boat but somehow blew the hookset. I'll be slowly adding some of the Belize pictures to my blog. I'm about to be very bust with guiding at the moment but I'll try to post them and I'll also be adding them to the Belize slideshow located on the lower right edge of my blog.

Brown Trout Eating a Dry

Here's a video I took recently of a buddy catching a brown on a dry. I got a little excited unfortunately and moved the camera at the last minute but you get the idea. http://youtu.be/FvPcguw4eXs

June Fishing

Fishing has been very good in the area recently. The South Fork in particular has been on fire. Its been almost entirely nymphing up to this point, but we did finally get some dry fly action on Wednesday. Lots of big bugs are starting to move, not hatch, and PMDs are hatching. The Green river is just starting to clear and should be fishing well any day now. The upper Snake River has been consistent and we're beginning to see good hatches. The only complaint about the Snake is that the flows out of the dam are very high. They've recently bumped them from a very nice 2500 cfs up to 5000 cfs in about 48 hrs. Hopefully this will make for better flows during the mid-summer season. Here are some pictures from a recent guys trip.

6/3

This post should actually be from two weeks ago but I'm a little late getting around to it. Some buddies and I did a little fishing on the Green river in Wyoming. A cold front had just rolled through so the first day was a little slower than the second day. The fishing was entirely with nymphs and streamers with smaller nymph patterns being the best. I was lucky enough to get a big 22 inch rainbow toward the end of the second day on a big black streamer.

May 22nd

Runoff is going full speed ahead right now. This means that the local freestone rivers are totally blown out right now and lakes are the best option. Now is the time of year I go up to some of the lakes in Grand Teton Nat'l Park and harvest a bunch of macks (lake trout). These fish are very aggressive and considered invasive in much of the area so they're a good fish to put in the freezer. The fishign for these guys has been excellent with lots of fish in water as shallow as 2-6ft. That's very shallow for a fish that spends much of its life 60+ feet down.

Canada Trip

My dad and brother just got back from a great trip with my uncles to Canada. They caught a ton of northern pike and smallmouth bass. The biggest pike was 34 inches and the biggest smallie was a 5 lb 7oz fish. That's a new family record for us.