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Yellowstone Park, June 27th, 2023

June 27, 2023
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Fishing Reports

Lewis River Between Lewis and Shoshone Lakes

Cool weather is keeping the Firehole River in good fishing shape. Water is cool enough for caddis, PMD and sally activity. The same is happening to a lesser extent on the lower Gibbon River. The Madison River features a good PM caddis hatch for some top water fishing. Use light (5X) tippets for natural drifts of your favorite small caddis patterns.

Perhaps the best still water fishing in the entire region is on Shoshone Lake, but only with the right strategy. Here it is. A three mile walk packing a flotation device down the DeLacy Creek Trail between Old Faithful and Thumb Junction is required or through boating up the Lewis River to realize it. Get out on the lake and look for submerged weed beds in water no more than ten to twelve feet deep. The beds host scuds, leeches, a few snails, and other food forms, so lake trout and a few brown trout are attracted. Use a full sink line to get patterns for these down to the beds, and action is sure to happen. The lake trout run 17-22 inches and the brown trout are slightly larger. The other good fishing in this area is on the Lewis River between Shoshone Lakes where large brown trout are chasing streamer patterns.

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South Fork, June 27th, 2023

June 27, 2023
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Fishing Reports, South Fork

No significant giant stonefly or mayfly activity yet. Water needs to warm up. To some extent Dr. Rob Van Kirk’s comments on Henry’s Fork aquatic insect hatches being late this year applies to those on the South Fork. Palisades Reservoir is near 100 % of capacity, and flow out of it was deceased very slightly yesterday with no impact on the relatively slow fishing.

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Henry’s Fork, June 27th, 2023

June 27, 2023
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Fishing Reports, Henry's Fork

Upper Coffee Pot Area

Water Quality and Insect Hatch Information From Dr. Rob Van Kirk’s Henry’s Fork Watershed Report of Today

Overall, water quality continues to be excellent throughout the watershed. Turbidity continues to decrease across the watershed. Water temperatures yesterday were near to slightly below average throughout the watershed. Temperatures were within the optimal range for rainbow trout most of the day in most river reaches. Dissolved oxygen concentrations are optimal.

Timing of aquatic insect hatches at Flat Rock, Ashton Dam and St. Anthony is 1–4 days later than the 2014–2022 average but 1–4 days earlier than last year. Hatch timing in the river reach between Island Park Dam and Pinehaven is 5–6 days later than average but at or a few days ahead of that in 2022. Hatch timing lags average by the largest margin at Marysville, where it is 9 days later than average.

Rob Van Kirk, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Henry’s Fork Foundation

P.O. Box 550

Ashton, ID 83420

208-881-3407 CELL

Dr. Rob Van Kirk’s information above explains why fishing is better on some parts of the river than others. For example a good population of big stoneflies remain in Box Canyon, but on cool, cloudy days streamer fishing produces best. Golden stoneflies are coming out up and down the river., Gray drakes and flavs are showing up during PMs on the river below Ashton Dam. The fabled green drake hatch is yet to be significant in the Harriman State Park reach and is declining on the lower river.

The lower Coffee Pot area will one of the better locations to find relative solitude on the river. The Henry’s Fork giant stonefly hatch ends there, and golden stone fly, PMD and caddis activities can bring on good fishing.

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South Fork, June 24th, 2023

June 24, 2023
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Fishing Reports, South Fork

Flow out of Palisades Dam has been nearly constant for about a week. Streamer, rubber leg, woolly bugger patterns and annelid presented in slower waters will interest some fish. Changes are coming soon with the stonefly hatches just around the corner. We will keep track of these and their progress and report on this web site.

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Small Streams, June 24th, 2023

June 24, 2023
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Fishing Reports, Small Streams

With the exception of the Ashton-Flagg Road beyond Calf Creek hill and one other big exception, all back country roads are open. The other exception is getting to Bear Creek where the Bear Creek road will be closed for many weeks. The Jensen Creek road, the long way around ( Leaving the McCoy Creek Road about three miles above the campground) to Bear Creek is also closed. Thus the only ways to reach Bear Creek is though boating or hiking. Other major streams feeding Palisades Reservoir are rounding into good fishing shape with small streamer and such as woolly bugger and San Juan worm patterns being effective until aquatic insects ( caddis, golden stone flies, PMDs,etc) become more active. Other small streams in that area that are rounding into shape are the Salt River tribs coming out of Idaho: Jackknife, Tincup, Stump, and Crow Creeks. Fish within these respond to the same patterns suggested for the Reservoir tribs.

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Yellowstone Park, June 24th, 2023

June 24, 2023
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Fishing Reports, Yellowstone Park

The Firehole River is beginning to warm, so begin considering other waters to fish. Some of the best stream fishing currently in the park is on the Lewis River Channel between Lewis and Shoshone Lakes where resident brown trout will chase streamer patterns. The channel also has a minor giant stone fly emergence and some green drakes. Green drakes are also in the river below Lewis lake (where browns are wary beyond belief) at least to the top of the canyon. Fishing on Shoshone Lake using the strategies we described in our last report work big time.

If traveling a distance to enjoy some of the largest cutts and bows in the Park is OK with you, Trout Lake, a few miles west of the northeast entrance offers these. The lake is about half a mile uphill walk from the highway. It can be fished from shore, but packing a flotation device to get onto it is a best strategy. Damsel and dragon fly life cycle patterns, scud and leech patterns, sometimes suspended under an indicator, sometimes slow trolled (intermediate line) bring best results. The lake will begin weeding up big time soon making wet fly fishing difficult ,so the next few weeks is best time for a visit.

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Henry’s Lake, June 24th, 2023

June 24, 2023
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Fishing Reports, Henry's Lake

Fishing remains slow. Water temps are in the 50s in deg. F, water is mostly clear, with weed growth beginning. A few fish are being caught around submerged springs through using midge pupa patterns suspended under indicators. Better days are ahead!

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Henry’s Fork, June 24th, 2023

June 24, 2023
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Fishing Reports, Henry's Fork

Green Drakes are out on the lower river with best concentrations below Ashton Dam to above Chester backwaters. Although they inhabit many section of the river, this is the best hatch in terms of numbers. They may have peaked here, but there are enough to make a visit worthwhile. Days with higher relative humidity, little wind, and even overcast will bring out the best concentrations. But as with the feeding on stoneflies a few weeks earlier, they will become filled and head to the depths to digest. A strategy is to give them time to digest, then come back later with life form patterns, and you will have some action.

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Still Waters, June 20th, 2023

June 20, 2023
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Fishing Reports, Still Water

A Windy Day on Daniels Reservoir

Windy times on Daniels Reservoir means fishing the edge of mud plumes with annelid and other such patterns can be effective. Kelly-Toponce Road is open, so boat launch area on Chesterfield Reservoir is easily approached. Reservoir water quality is good. Slow trolling and casting leech patterns using intermediate lines brings some success, but better fishing is ahead. The road to Twenty-Four Mile Reservoir is open. To date we have no info on fishing success there.

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