Fishing Reports

Henry’s Fork, November 1st, 2022

Headlines from Dr. Rob Van Kirk’s water status report of yesterday for the Henry’s Fork drainage:  

• With the first month under our belt, water year 2023 started right where 2022 left off: slightly warmer than average, precipitation at 91% of average, and natural stream flow among the lowest on record.
• The first very cold weather of the fall arrives tomorrow, and heavy precipitation is expected to begin Saturday and last well into next week.
• At an outflow of around 130 cfs, Island Park Reservoir gained 493 ac-ft yesterday and is 52% full, compared with 55% full on average.

Upcoming weather may make fishing the upper river a challenge. Fishing on the lower river should not be as challenging with respect to air temperatures but stronger winds will make dry fly fishing tougher and diminish hatches.

Henry’s Fork, October 29th, 2022

Presenting streamers almost anywhere on the river will be effective. Weedier waters such as in the Harriman State Park reach (and portions of the lower river), will have interrupted presentations from time to time but resident rainbows respond to them even though it is almost traditional to present aquatic and terrestrial insect life cycle patterns. Brown trout are migrating throughout the lower river, and offering streamers during low light conditions is certainly the best way to encounter them.