Finally Some Dries!

Guiding around here these past few weeks can be summed up in one statement: staring at strike indicators. Fishing the Green, the Snake below Jackson Lake Dam, and the few trips I've had on the raging South Fork has almost entirely been done while gazing at strike indicators. Although it can be very productive, it can get very mundane on the oars looking at a pink bobber all day. After all, this is supposed to be prime dry fly country! The South Fork has been lowered to 17,000 cfs, which is still pretty high. I'm hoping we will see it get closer to 15,000 cfs soon...that would make it much easier to fish. The Green has dropped significantly this week to about 1,500 cfs as of today...a much more reasonable level to be fishing. Although there have been blizzard Drake, Caddis and Sally hatches down there, the fish have been holding tight in the high water nymphing. As these levels drop even more, look for much better dry fly action any day on the Green. The best place to throw some dries right now is on the upper Snake, between the Dam and Pacific Creek. The hatch of Sallies and Golden Stones up there today was thick. On top of that, the water is the best it has looked all year...very clear. Unfortunately, the Buffalo Fork is still putting in a muddy 2,100 cfs and making the Snake unfishable below the confluence at Moran Junction. That's all I've got...just the facts. Here's a great shot I snapped today of the beautiful Snake with the Mount Moran monolith in the background.