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June 2009

Jimmy's All Seasons Angler / 2009 / June (Page 3)

South Western Montana 6-19-09

The cool rainy weather is helping make the mayfly emergences on the Madison below Quake Lake live up to its name.  PMDs and BWOs are leading the way here.  The north shore of Hebgen is the place to go if you enjoy presenting midge pupa at taking depths. Along the Hebgen south shore small leech and damselfly nymphs continue to produse and will until weeds interfere. The upper end of Elk Lake is a great remote water experience with small leech, midge pupa, and damselfly nymphs attracting the big resident cutthroat.  Yellow sallys and PMDs are attracting very nice fish on the Beaverhead River.

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Still Waters 6-19-09

All of those in southeastern Idaho, that is from Bingham County southeast are doing great. Here’s another bunch of candidates if you must get that boat out. On any of these: Chesterfield, Daniels, Hawkins, Springfield, Twenty-Four Mile, Twin Lakes; go for structure.  That is bays, inlets, and coves.  Also look for shoreline vegetation. Damselfly nymphs, leech patterns, scuds, and midge pupa all in your favorite patterns presented at taking depths all are proving effective.

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Small Streams 6-19-09

Recent rains have kept many these high.  With more rain expected this weekend some will stay that way. Warm River, Buffalo River, Tom’s Creek, Portneuf River, and Birch Creek should remain fishable.   PMDs, Caddis and a few BWOs will be the fare for top water fishing.

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Yellowstone Park 6-19-09

Rain has kept streams high, but this bodes well for a good seson extending into late summer and autumn. The Madison River drainage is probably best bet for moving water with PMDs, a few gisnt and golden stones, and caddis on almost all waters. The Lewis River between Shoshone and Lewis lakes is a great palce to try streamers. Here and below Lewis Lake  the green drake emergence wiil begin in about a week.  Trout Lake opened on the 15th, and it hosts the largest cutthroat-rainbows in the Park.  Scuds, midges, damsels and small leech patterns are the best here until it mosses up with the onset of warmer weather.  In the southwest corner of the Park, runoff reigns supreme and will for a while yet. The Ashton-Flagg Road is days away from opening all the way through.  You can use it now to access lower reaches of Fall River in the Park, but run-off makes the river almost unfishable.

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Henry’s Lake 6-19-09

The best activity here would be to go to the tying bench and produce damselfly nymphs for the emergence beginning around the end of the month.  If you need to get out, head for deeper water to try midging or presenting scud patterns.

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Henry’s Fork 6-19-09

With the South Fork at “High Tide” this river offers some great float fishing alternatives for this weekend. Here’s what’s going on if you like dry fly fishing and need to get that boat out.  First, the river is in great shape.  From Riverside to Hatchery Ford look for caddis, PMD’s, a few golden stoneflies, and even a few green drakes. From Warm River to Ashton look for big time PMDs, afternoon green drakes, evening caddis and some gray drakes.  From Ora Bridge to Chester Backwaters look for PMDs big time, afternoon green drakes and evening caddis and lots’a gray drakes.   Predicted cool rainy weahter won’t hurt the fishing a bit.  You can even do well through walk-in wade fishing on all of these.  With respect to the river below Chester and the Fall River confluence, you can almost float a battleship.  Fall River and Teton River are making very generous contributions.  But don’t forget the Henry’s Fork Days event at the Last Chance rest area.  Stop in for breakfast, to hear incredible fishing tales, and meet folks. Who knows; maybe some upper river green drakes and PMDs will appear to enhance that event.

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Henry’s Fork 6-18-09

We have been hearing rumors of Drakes hatching on the lower river. Pale Morning Duns, Caddis, Golden Stones, and Yellow Sallies are producing fish on the surface. With the South Fork flows really high expect to see a lot of people on the Henry’s Fork for the next few weeks. Nymphing and streamer fishing still continue to produce fish under the surface. For an up to minute report call the shop.

The Henrys Fork days are this weekend in Island Park. This is a great time they will be lots to do up in Island Park this weekend. For more information on the Henrys’ Fork days call the shop.

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Today at Jimmy’s 6-18-09

With the South Fork blown out, the Henry’s Fork is fishing really well. We have also heard really great things about the lakes and reservoirs south of Idaho falls. Yellowstone Park is also fishing well. Talk to Bruce to find out his favorite places to fish in Yellowstone, and Tom will be happy to help you figure out which lake you can find some big trout.

We posted some ew items on the Online Store. We now have fly lines from RIO Products. Keep posted to the online store because we are continuing to add more products. Eventually we will have all of RIO’s products available to purchase for our online store. If you need a new Trout fly line head over to our online store and pick one out today!

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South Fork 06-17-09

Due to very low irrigation demand increased flows into Palisades the South Fork is up to 14,000 cfs and will be raised to 17,000 plus by tomorrow. This is a much higher flow than was predicted last week by the Bureau of Rec. The reservoir is only 3 percent from filling so flows may go higher once the lake fills in 3 or 4 days from now.

Hopefully by late June when the big stoneflies start hatching the flows will have dropped back into the 15,000 range. We will keep an eye the conditions and report whatever news we get.  In the meantime if you fish the south fork concentrate again at the bottoms of the islands and slower water next to the current like we did earlier this year when the flows were up.

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Today at Jimmy’s 6-15-09

We have received some new t-shirt from Simms. They have really great prints on them from the artist Derek DeYoung, and his paintings of trout. The Henry’s Fork Days is coming up this weekend. Jimmy will be upu there so if you see him be sure to say hello. Also we have many great ideas for those Fathers. Nothing shows application and love like a fathers day gift from Jimmy’s All Seasons Angler.

If you happen to be a memeber of facebook go check out our facebook page! We need 1000 fans so that we can get a facebook domain name. Tell your friends to become fans and show your support for the shop on facebook.

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