Fall is finally here—many of the leaves on our Western rivers are changing, stream flows are low and water temperatures are cold, and it is time for us to wear fleece and wool. After a long summer of hot and dry conditions, the onset of fall means opportunities for your next fly fishing outing is [...]
The heat is on throughout the US West and trout in many of our rivers are beginning to feel the negative effects. Join fellow anglers and take the pledge: No Fish Dry July. From our friends at Keep Fish Wet: With many places enduring extreme drought and water temperatures much higher than normal, we encourage [...]
As much of the US West saw below average snow and precipitation in late March and April, so goes the mountain snowpack data. A few spots increased their snowpack--like southcentral Montana and a few drainages in northern Wyoming--but most of the West's major drainages saw levels drop to below historical averages. Central Oregon saw the [...]
Now that March is over, April brings on fishing season in earnest and this is the time of year we want to be on the lookout for springtime hatches and warming water temperatures, and to dust off the drift boat and tune the trailer. We are a month or so away from the well-known caddis [...]
Across the US West most drainages are near normal for their to-date Snow Water Equivalent (SWE). This good news as many of the regions anglers can possibly expect favorable conditions for late spring and summer angling. However, with spring just starting things can change in many of these drainages. Oregon and Washington are the bright [...]