Snake River Skwalas are out along with Capnias and midges. BWOs can be out on days with cloud cover and precipitation. Slow water targets – side channels, seam tails, eddies, banks, and bankside troughs – are the place to be in the morning hours with whatever you are fishing with. By 1pm, however, everything lights up, including banks with moderate speed, riffle heads, and the full length of seams. It’s a good time to be fishing the Snake with tandem dries, dry-droppers, o

Snake River A lot of back and forth on the Snake at the moment. Cooler, wetter days are producing solid hatches of midges and BWOs. Warmer days can produce the same as well as good numbers of Capnias and spring emergences of October caddis. Dry fly action is best from about 11:30am until 3pm, after which surface feeding wanes noticeably even as hatches continue. Target side channels, seams, eddies, and the head of riffles. Double nymph rigs are a good way to go in the mor

I have a love-hate relationship with spring. Warming temps are the “hate” part. My little slice of the Rocky Mountain West is ski country, and its winters deliver dozens of powder-packed days most years. Few of those happen in April or May. Instead, the spring thaw leaves us to settle for slushy afternoon turns at 10,000 ft. It’s fun, but it plays second fiddle to 12”-plus dumps that at times can go on for a week. The fishing spring delivers is the “love” part. Gone are

Snake River Warm, spring temps and good surface action on the Snake from around noon until around 6pm with the middle (Moose to Wilson) and lower (South Park to Alpine) offering the production. Midges still dominate the scene and capnia continues to emerge in fair numbers after noon. Slow water targets – ledge rock pools, riffle pools, and eddies – are fishing best early. Later in the afternoon, faster currents – particularly seams and sweeping riffles – can offer just as goo