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.

6/21/12

Fishing is getting hot up here. Nymphing and streamer fishing has been excellent with some dry fly action starting to pickup. I think the dry fly fishing is really gonna pop here in about a week. The fish are starting to move shallow in the riffles and move up in the water column to feed on nymphs. Here are a few pictures from a recent lake trip and monday's guide trip in the south fork canyon. The biggest fish in the pictures is a 21 inch brown that I'm convinced we caught about two weeks ago.

Fishing has been excellent recently. The south fork has been fishing well with nymphs and streamers but the water will need to warm-up a few more degrees before the dry fly fishing picks up. The Green was fishing but the warm weather has caused the flows to jump up and the river to blow out. The mountains in the area are losing their snow quickly and I suspect that the Green and even the Snake will start to fish here in the next few weeks.

Fishing is Picking Up!

The fishing in this area has really started to turn on in the past week or so. Many rivers are still high with runoff but the snow is disappearing quickly and the runoff this year has been exceptionally tame. The South fork is clear and fishing well with relatively low flows and good hatches starting to come off. Its still mostly a nymph and streamer game but the dry fly action is right around the corner. Yellowstone opens this weekend and should be fishing very well, I actually have a guide trip there this Saturday so I'll let you know how it goes. The Green and Snake are still high but I would expect them to clear far earlier than normal. I took a fishing road trip with some buddies this weekend and found some excellent fishing. There were more boats out than I think I've ever seen on this river but the fishing was still very productive. The fishing was pretty much all nymphing with big flies and heavy tippet. Its nice to be able to nymph with 1X and 2X even when the water is crystal clear. We did catch a few fish on streamers but that action was sporadic at best. Overall it was a great weekend spent camping with some good friends in beautiful weather. I hope you enjoy some of the pictures!

5/2/12

A big thanks to everyone who has posted on trip advisor for me. Those reviews are greatly appreciated. Runoff has started in the area with many of the freestone streams being blow out. Given the current conditions I would expect fishing to really pickup in the area by mid June. For the time being the fishing has been hit or miss with some big fish being caught but not huge numbers of fish. I have also been fishing Jackson Lake however, and have caught excellent numbers of lake trout there. These fish are very invasive and are fantastic to eat.

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4/14/12

I spent the weekend fishing locally. The Snake fished very well with fish eating both streamers and nymphs. My buddy actually landed what is probably the largest cutty I've ever seen out of the Snake. This fish was around 21 inches, maybe a little bigger if you ask him, and was caught sight nymphing a shallow riffle. The Green did not fish nearly as well, the water was cold and off-color. I did catch one nice 20.5 inch brown on a streamer but that was really the only action we had on the day. It was still nice to be getting out on the river with some buddies again.