News and Fishing Reports

The sun was bright and the air was crisp as we hooked the 16' crestliner fishing machine to the trailer hitch. Yes sir......another beautiful fall day in Idaho. We loaded too many rods and even more reels lined with fly lines for every depth. Why do we do that when we end up fishing the...

Okay, so I apologize for the lack of an update for a couple months, but you try running 70-something trips to date in your first year of guiding full time and see if your fingers want to type at the end of the day. Between rowing and tying and UNTYING knots, I’ll seriously wager a bet...

Box Canyon: The "Box" continues to fish well with streamers and small (size 16 to 20) beadhead nymphs. Presently the flows are at 220 cfs which is great for wading or those individuals with pontoon boats but it's a little skinny for drift boats. Last Chance/Railroad Ranch: Fishing...

Box Canyon: Fishing in the "Box" continues to be productive with small beadhead nymphs and streamers. There is alot of moss and flotsom in the water so be prepared to spend some time cleaning off your rig during the day. A few of our favorite beadhead nymphs are red and black...

DRIFT @ TroutHunter - Friday, September 26th All proceeds to benefit the Henry's Fork Foundation A stunning visual journey, DRIFT combines the highest quality film production, world class flyfishing and an eclectic group of anglers to create the most definitive film about the sport to...

Box Canyon: Fishing in the "Box" continues to be very productive. Try streamers early and late and a tandem rig of small beadhead nymphs during the middle of the day. There is a little build up of moss on the bottom so if your fishing deep, like you should be, you will get hung up a...

Box Canyon: The "Box" continues to produce good fishing. Best results have been with small beadhead nymphs and streamers. Try streamers early and late in the day and nymphs from late morning through the afternoon hours. For streamers we suggest Sculpzilla's, Olive Zonkers, Olive...

“Playing Hooky at Sheridan Lake” -René Harrop Dawn on a day in mid August felt more like September as Rich and I made our way west on Yale Kilgore road. Smoke hung low over the Centennial Range mixing with dust from the fire crews assigned to manage the Willow Creek...

AN EVENING WITH DOUG PEACOCK Renowned American Naturalist, Outdoorsman & Author Friday, August 22, 2008 @ TroutHunter Bar & Grill. 7:30pm. Doug Peacock will describe his experiences in the wilderness with grizzlies and share his early film footage of bears. A question & answer...

Box Canyon: The “Box” has been fishing very well with adult Golden Stone imitations, small beadhead nymphs, rubberlegs and streamers. You might want to avoid the “Box” on weekends due to the large number of recreational floaters, but weekdays have been fine. In fact, I...

Box Canyon: Fishing in the "Box" continues to be very good. As I have reported in the past, this may not be the first choice for the dry fly purist but it is a place that tends to produce fish on a very consistent basis. This is not to say that you cannot catch fish on a dry fly...

When I awoke to the morning call to prayer I realized that Island Park, Idaho was a long way away.  It had taken us 32 hours of travel including an obligatory wide stance photo op at the stall made infamous by Idaho Senator Larry Craig.  This celebration of absurdity prompted the first...

More than five decades separate my first float through the Harriman Ranch and a pleasant July morning in 2008. An invitation to join my TroutHunter partner Rich Paini and his fellow Henry’s Fork Foundation Board member Robert Dotson was too tempting to refuse given recent reports of...

Box Canyon:  The "Box" continues to produce great fishing day after day after day.  Granted, this is not the first choice for a serious dry fly fisherman.  However, if you are an avid nymph fisherman, or you don't mind fishing two fly rigs under a strike indicator, this...

Box Canyon: The Box has fished very well over the past couple of days and I predict it will continue to do so. Our guides are having their best luck fishing tandem rigs of rubber legs and smaller beadhead nymphs. We suggest black, brown, and coffee/black rubber legs in sizes #4 and #6 teamed...

My appreciation for Tennessee grew tremendously following my latest guiding experience.  My fondness for the state was previously based solely on a gentleman named Jack Daniels but now I have two more reasons, Trey and Jared.  Trey played ball for the Broncos, Jets, and Bills as a center,...

Anglers that came to the Henry’s Fork over the past ten days or so were able to find excellent fishing if they were flexible and willing to move around a bit. Warm River to Ashton section was exceptional a week ago. The salmon flies were out in good numbers and the fish were on them. The...

The 24th annual Henry's Fork Day is June 21, 2008.  It is largest event for the Henry's Fork Foundation, the voice of the river.  Please support the Foundation and attend this event.  If you are interested in donating cash or auction items, it would be greatly appreciated.  Call...

Simplifying CDC A Fly Tying Class with Leslie Harrop Saturday June 14, 2008 1pm – 4pm @ TroutHunter This workshop will cover various applications using Cul de Canard. You will learn a variety of techniques for tying wings, legs and tails. $40.00 per person which includes...

Saturday, May 24th, was the Idaho general fishing season opener and anglers across the state were greeted with high, and in most cases, muddy water due to the Spring snow melt. The Henry's Fork was no exception. In spite of the higher than normal flows the Box Canyon, which has clear water by the...

Each Spring Rene, Marty and I manage to get out on the water in late May for a few hours.  The ritual, which is always met with great anticipation, is predictable:  We meet at TroutHunter and buy a few gigantic orange flies, proceed to the Grubstake to load up on Natty Lites and ice, then...

Another morning shared with the mosquitoes!! It's 5:30am and Ned and I are getting ready to launch the boat for my third and final day in the glades. The tides will be low between now and about 10am. He fires up the Yamaha and idles through the Manatee zone between us and the Tarpon. The first...

It was 52 degrees with intermittent, gusty winds at game time on Cinco de Mayo at the Vernon boat launch for the first game of the season between the hometown Fish of the Fork and the Visiting Anglers from Texas and southern Idaho, respectively. The fish got some strong pitching in the early...

Between May 1st & May 22nd we are offering Guide Trips for $375 for one or two anglers.  A streamside lunch is included. We will even throw in rental rods & waders.  There is no sales tax. Flies, terminal tackle, and guide gratuity are not included.  We are also offering a...

I fly in, get my $20 rental car, drive for an hour and a half, sleep for three hours, and meet Capt. Ned Small at the boat ramp. So here I stand, on the front of a skiff in the Everglades, and we see Tarpon in the first spot we stop. To make a long story short, I dropped the line out of...

Appearing at least weekly, April showers of the white variety continue to punctuate a very unusual Spring in the flat land. Navigating the ice ledges continues to add an extra element of excitement to fishing the bank feeders along the edges at Fun Farm but otherwise, access to the lower...

Historically we no longer expect to add to snow pack levels after the 15th of April.  What we have by mid-April is all we should expect to get.  However, as I write this report a huge storm is coming across the border from Canada, it is expected to arrive sometime during the next 24 to 36...

With the weather showing some signs of Spring, Brad Miller and I have gotten out on the water quite a bit recently.  We began in late March, swinging streamers around the Chester backwaters, and the Fun Farm and Del Rio bridges for aggressive, early season Henry's Fork fish looking to pack on...

Life is good at 17 degrees 30 minutes north.  The weather has been perfect.  There has been just enough wind over the last few days to keep the anglers cool and the fish comfortable.  The clouds have been small and sparse creating excellent fish spotting light.  As result...

April 3, 2008 We just finished the first day of fishing.  7 more to go.  We are in Placencia, in southern Belize.  We have a great group of folks in addition to Jon, Millie & I.  Our good friends, Tim & Joanne Linehan (fishmontana.com) happen to be staying at...

The end of one of the driest summers in memory found IP Reservoir at a perilously low level. Prospects for adequate winter flow on the ‘Fork looked grim until nature responded in early October. A series of heavy storms began to pile snow into the high country at a mid winter rate, and the...

We are more than 80% into our 2008 snow season and snowpacks are still looking very good. The latest figures for the Henry's Fork drainage puts us at 111% of average for our snowpack and 106% of average for water content. Over in Montana the most recent reports show the Madison River drainage at...

Let me give you a taste of the chase for some of the biggest brown trout in the world at the end of the earth. I fall out of bed after six hours of sleep as we had dinner at midnight the night before. The cooler is in the truck and 12-14 foot two handed rods loaded with short-head...