Jackson Hole Fall Fly Fishing

My guiding season has finally started to slow down here and I've been able to fish a little bit on my own. We've had some crazy winter weather in the area recently with cold temps, lots of precipitation, and lots of wind. I was fortunate enough to go out fishing with some good clients a few days ago and we had some excellent fishing. The weather was incredibly windy but we did find some fish, including some large fish, podded up. The fish were eating both large and small dry flies and nymph droppers. One of my guys, on his first day every fly fishing, did catch a true 20 inch cutty on a dry fly. It was an awesome fish and amazingly fat. Congrats Alex! That was the last guide trip I've taken. A buddy and I did go fish a special river on tuesday and had an awesome day! The water was so low that floating was a lot of work but the fishing was pretty darn good. It was all nymph fishing but its tough to complain when you're catching fish from 14-22 inches. I'm currently visiting my folks down in Steamboat Springs, Colorado and plan to do some fishing with my dad. We're gonna fish both tomorrow and Saturday even though the weather looks awful at the moment. Hopefully I'll have some good pictures to post after this trip!

One Fly 2013

We just finished up the One Fly tournament here in Jackson. The fishing was tough due to water conditions, the Buffalo fork turned the water muddy. My groups did quite well. The first day's group did decent but the second day's group killed it! I was lucky enough to guide one of my fellow guides, Trey Sharpe, who had a great day and fished a streamer amazingly well. In the end Trey ended up getting 3rd place overall. Here are some pictures from the past week. Hopefully it won't rain too much tonight and we'll have another great day tomorrow.

September 1st

Fishing has been picking up on the Snake River. Snake drakes, mahongany mayflies, and september stonflies are the name of the game. The water is still relatively high for this time of year but the fishing has been quite good. Just today we caught one of the largest cuttthroat trout I've even caught in the snake river. This fish was 20.r inches long and probably weighed in the range of 4 lbs. The fish ate a large stonefly dry fished in about a foot of water. Most of the other rivers in the area are fishing poorly. The Green river and new fork rivers are too low to fish and the south fork, while fishing well in the mornings, is not fishing well later in the day. Fall is arriving and lower nighttime temps should improve the midday fishing.

Aug 11th, 2013

Fishing continues to be very good for the time being. I've really only been on the Snake River recently as it seems to be fishing the best. I've heard that the South Fork is warm and off color and the Green River and the New Fork are way too low to fish right now. The Snake is fishing well with dry flies but streamers can also be a very good choice. I actually had a very large fish take another fish off of a client's line just a few days ago. Fishing has been pretty good throughout the day but I would say that the morning is generally better. Here are a few pictures of a fat 18incher that my client Enoch Snyder caught this past week.

August 4th, 2013

Fishing on the Snake River is still very good at the moment. The flows are still very high but they did drop this river by 500cfs on August first. This has helped the fishing significantly and also made the rowing alot less strenuous. Early morning has been the best with thde fishing starting to taper off later in the afternoon. Dry flies are the name of the game but nymph dropper and streamers are a good addition. Here are a few pics from the past few weeks. Many of them are from the Green River but I had delayed posting them until now. At this point the green is too low to float and I doubt I'll be able to float it until the fall when they stop irrigating. Oh, on a side note the South Fork has not been fishing very well recently. The reservoir is way drawn down causing the South Fork to be warm and off color. On the plus side this should make for some good fall fishing over there.

July, 28th 2013

Fishing still continues to be very good for the time being. Here's a picture from the teton river on a day off not long ago. Hopefully the weather is kind to us and the fishing will continue to be good.

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.