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August is here and so are August fishing conditions. The rivers are low and clear and with the cooler overnight temperatures, the water temperatures are ideal. It’s a fun time of year to wet-wade with a box or two of flies in your pocket and some tippet and just keep
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Sorry for the big lapse in reports. We are still alive and preparing for a great fall! It has been a tough summer with low water levels and high water temps. It appears we are good with water temps now, but we REALLY need
You gotta love a season when you can catch a brown trout on a 5-inch long mouse and, a few yours later, a brown trout on a size 26 Trico. It’s this miniature fishing that comes first. There are some true trico devotees at the lodge right now and, a
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