Jere,
Have you made the drift from Warm River to the takeout at the upper end of
Ashton Reservoir? That has always been productive for me and doesn't get a
lot of traffic. When I lived in Jackson Hole during 2000 we fished that
stretch a lot. It has an outstanding stonefly hatch but that may have
happened already.
Les
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From: "Jere Crosby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 9:20 AM
Subject: Henry's Fork
> No ticks, but had our ups and downs. Put in mid-day below Ashton on the
> Henry's Fork and fish were podded up keyed on something? I started with
my
> "change a fly every other cast routine" and hooked up on a floating,
> green-drake nymph. I tied one on my wife's line and she hooked up.(I had
> seen, one green drake on the water) Then nothing and fish were
everywhere.
> It sure looked like caddis pupa they were taking with snappy rises and no
> adults, to speak of, visible. Then we watched a local, one guy in a boat,
> play several fish and when we float by we yelled to him and he responds,
"no
> hackle flav". I found a #14, olive body and we hooked 6-8 more fish. You
> could sit right on top of them, near the seam and pound cast after cast up
> stream and strip back and every once in awhile, hook up. I'm sure that is
> not what they were after, but they'd take an olive May, in the film, once
in
> awhile. There were some gulls, right in with them and you could watch
fish,
> bumping into the gulls. We landed one! Once the initial, down river run,
> it was very difficult to bring them back to the boat. They were rainbows
> and would sway, back and forth below the boat when you eventually gained
> water(ground) on them; finally the hook would pull out. The wind blew
like
> crazy after launching and made it very difficult and exhausting.
> Fortunately, you could anchor up close to fish. We wondered about the
water
> temp, after Island Park received all the snow, but waded wet, just not for
> long! Jere
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