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The Salmon Flies Are Out

Submitted by wordup on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 9:50am
Salmon Fly Caught Bow

They are here! The Slamon Fly hatch is moving up the Henry's Fork and are crawling on the banks of the Ashton to Warm River section. The fish are striking on the big bugs so get out there and have some fun! Stop by Ashton's fly shops to load up on salmon flies and rubberlegs before the trip. Hurry! This hatch dosn't last long!

Waiting for the big bugs on the Henry's Fork

Submitted by wordup on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 8:42am

Everyone is waiting for the epic salmonfly hatch on the Henry's Fork. As of Friday May 11th, no big bugs were seen on the Warm River to Ashton streach, but fish were hungry for rubberleg droppers off adult salmonfly patterns. There was a few strikes on the surface, but mostly on the rubberleg. With the warm weather the hatch should be rolling up the river starting any day so keep your eyes open for those big bugs!

Warm River is great in the spring

Submitted by wordup on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 8:50am

When most rivers start raging chocolate milk from runoff, the best place to fish is Warm River. Since it is mostly spring fed and a shorter river, it doesn't get hammered with the dirty water like almost every other river and stream in the Ashton area. Having said that, the 2012 winter was wimpy and runoff may be earlier and more mild than last year. 

Midge is fun

Submitted by Justin Wells on Tue, 03/20/2012 - 6:06am

Ok the fishing in swan valley is ridiculous right now. I have been fishing from the Irwin slide to the bridge and chucking streamers, olive has seemed to work the best. The midge activity is incredible we are finding lots of fish in the 17 inch range on the surface, look in the slow foot deep water they are hard to spot but once you do it's on. Timing is difficult because the midge come off in waves through out the day we were seeing risers as early as 8 a.m. Oh and these fish do seem to be a little spooky.

Could I lose any more flies

Submitted by Justin Wells on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 8:24am

Got to warm river at 1:30 it was good right off the bat. My set up was a wholly bugger with a lightning bug and a midge caught fish on all of them. Nothing big today just your 12 to 15 inchers my buddy threw streamers and came up with nothing. I saw a few splashy rises but might have been nice fish for that river can be deceiving some times but still to lazy to tie up a dry fly rig the midge where out in force. If your into catching a lot of 12 to 15 inchers warm river is the place to go. Good luck out there