Rachael and I, along with the girls, returned last night from a great getaway to the Northern California wine country to find that winter has not left Wyoming just yet. It still seems more like March around here. We drove up from Salt Lake City late last night through a blinding spring snowstorm. Apparently, the weather around here while we were gone was very snowy and cold. Today is blustery with snow showers, and the rest of the week looks like more of the same. Some of my buddies who stuck it out around here over the last week (which was the first official week of off-season) have reported tough fishing conditions in some wild weather. I'm hoping we are beginning to switch gears soon into some drier, sunnier weather. If all goes well, I'll be heading up to Montana in a week or so to check in on some Big Hole conditions. Local officials here are increasingly worried about flood potential this spring, and have decided to ramp up the Snake River to 5,000 cfs over the next week in order to make room in Jackson Lake for the mammoth snow melt that will come (The Upper Snake River Basin Snowpack is almost 130% right now!). This could make for tough April fishing on our river, though. We typically see levels below 1,000 cfs during the early spring.
If you make it out there, keep your eyes peeled in the slack water for fish up on Midges...just like this one I recently found tucked in tight to a high bank. Make sure to check out the latest issue of This is Fly... still a great mag with fantastic articles and photography (including a great story on Cuba...love it!). I also wanted to share this great photo from my good buddy Campbell Hough...a beautiful hybrid caught and released today from the Blue River in Central Colorado...nice fish Soupy! "There's mosquito's on the river...fish are rising up like birds." :)
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