Timing is everything. I just received an email from a friend, who lives in
Yakima, and who spends time, over this way trout fishing. He was here, for
an extended stay over the Memorial weekend and fished the run that you
mentioned, Warm River down. They had good fishing catching the tailend of
the stonefly hatch. Just prior to the opener, that was one of the only runs
open and received lots of pressure because of that and the bugs. Steve had
fine, dryfly fishing. We fished it, a week later, and it was slow. I
stayed up top, there were a few big bugs around, but the fish were not keyed
on them. The word is, on that stretch, and Steve confirmed what I was told,
is to go deep in the fast runs with big nymphs when no major hatch to bring
them up. He fished Box Canyon and it was crowded, but did OK, and then they
put in below the Ranch and below the Falls, where they slide the boats down
a 1/4 mile stretch off a high bank! I've read about it, but can't imagine
it, expecially in my new boat that I haven't put my first, good scratch in
it yet. They slide down several rubber rafts, that he says are easier to
prevent from "taking off and getting away from you" and a guide slide a
glass boat over the edge and it took off for 100 yds, or so, bouncing off
trees, hit a big boulder, and turned upside down! He said the fishing was
great for big fish with few daring the hike in, but it's class 3 stuff and
quite a run. He likes the South Fork Canyon and will be back for an
overnite float in Aug. Predictions were poor for the South Fork, at that
time, but maybe last weeks heavy snows will change that forcast.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Les Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: Henry's Fork
> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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