This is streamer fishing season whether you walk-in wade or float the river. Be more concerned with presentation that with particular pattern selection, except have light colored and dark colored patterns ready to go. Expect to do best during low light conditions, and during daytime concentrate on the heads and tails of deeper water. Flows are still a bit higher than normal, but sure to drop soon.…
Flows are right where they should be for this time of year, and big browns are migrating to spawning areas, also as they should be. You best be fishing streamers to encounter them. Both float and walk-in wade fishing will be effective. Flows are sure to drop further in the upcoming weeks, so look for some great streamer fishing until ice-up. We can help you choose locations up & down the river. C’mon in and talk to us about “the where to try it” question.…
It is time to use streamers here and will remain that way for months to come. Evenings and early AMs will be the best time to be on the river. Have light colored and dark colored streamers in your fly box, a sink tip line, and stout leader on your reel. With the river dropping walk in locations are plentiful. Come into the shop to learn the best of these. Also, we can advise which sections to float at a given time.…
During the recent cloudy days BWOs hatches made for good PM fishing on the river around Idaho Falls and Shelley. But the big attraction now is that brown trout are migrating throughout the river. That means streamer fishing is the best way to encounter a big brown. Again, low light conditions will offer best chance to meet that big guy. Have dark colored and light colored streamers in your fly box. In light colors streamers featuring yellow or chartreuse seem to have an edge with respect to effectiveness. Strip ‘em or drift ‘em using a sink tip line. Try tops and bottoms of holes and runs. As light dims, try riffles and runs with a sink tip line, but a floating line may also get your fly deep enough to moving fish. Look for streamer fishing to be at its peak here in a few weeks and last through November.…
