Labor Day brought a fun hike into one of Idaho's many Alpine Jewels.  It was a great time but I will let the pictures do the talking.  

The PMD's are in full swing, and the hoppers are just on the verge.  I haven't fished hoppers yet, but a friend of mine had some success this week with a foam hopper in certain spots.  This past week we found a lot of success fishing PMD duns and emergers to rising fis...

The PMDs showed up and the fishing has really picked up.  Nymphing is good early in the day, with dry fly action in certain spots really strong in the late afternoon into the evening.  The numbers of fish are still down from what we saw 3-4 years ago even, but the size...

The river is not on fire yet.  Things are slow but there are fish to be had.  Most of the action is still subsurface with nymphs and streamers until the PMD's show up.  There are Caddis bouncing around the lower river in the evening and a few small BWO's and midges hat...

When I need to get some fishing in, often the mornings are a great option for me. I can get up early hit the river for a couple hours, and be back to the office

Flows below the dam were bumped up to 338cfs then were bumped again to 565cfs today.  Where they stop is anyone's guess.  It is still possible to fish at these flows but wading will become much more difficult.   Streamers, streamers, streamers.  The last year we saw fl...