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The initial hint of fall: It’s time to sign up for the 2025 River Cleanup on September 6th at 10 am at the lodge. First time? No problem. Twentieth time? Thank you. Have a “beat” you’d like to clean? The beat list is at the bottom of the report. Can’t
Boardman River Report
The Boardman remains nice and cold – great for this time of year. We saw a quick bump in flows Wednesday night with rain but the river is mostly back to normal flows for this time of year. If you want to explore the Boardman, concentrate your
Sorry for the late report, especially because conditions have changed, to say the least. As of Thursday at 4 pm, the mainstream and the North Branch are very high and discolored. The South Branch, interestingly, is not. In fact, flowing at 140 cfs, it is still very low. Hence, a
Hey guys, just a quick little update as it’s been a while… We’ve continued to struggle with water temperature issues quite a bit since last report but have also seen some much longer spurts of acceptable temps, particularly further upstream and the long-term forecast looks pretty good.
We’ve actually had
Boardman River
Fishing on the Boardman River has remained steady and is shifting toward our typical mid-summer approaches. Water temperatures have been fluctuating between 55 in the morning and low 60s in the afternoon. Small attractor-style dries are a great way to search the
Brook trout streams are staying cool thanks to good flow, but remember—brookies hate bright sun. One minute, you’re on fish, the next, they’re gone. Just ask Matt, who recently floated a beautiful stretch of one of our special rivers. The brookies were on fire… then the sun broke through, and
After two months of chasing a specific bug (hendrickson, sulphur, drake, Iso, hex) we begin — after the 4th — to chase specific experiences. It could be morning tricos and olives, or a creek, a night fish, a bass lake, attractors, the tail-end of the Isos, the evening small fly
The big bugs including the hex hatch on the trout rivers are behind us after a solid hatch due to consistent but hot weather. Lots of bugs poured off and when the water was cool enough to fish, the fishing was good. Now it seems the river returns to a
Well… (Deep subject.) Wish I had a better river report for you or even some recent trout pics to share, but unfortunately, I posted what I hadn’t in my last report and haven’t been out on the water again since.
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