Thnaks to Roman Kostrubiak for the following stream report and picture from the Snake River in Wyoming sent to us during the last week of September, 2008.
Theaux, Rocky, and Jason,
I have spent the last few days fishing in the Jackson Hole area. My first attempt was on Flat Creek – a spring creek just outside the town of Jackson. When I fished there, it was rather hot and sunny, more like mid-summer weather. Luckily some parts of the stream had a good spinner fall in the late morning and into mid-day. I was successful in fooling some nice Snake River Cutthroats with #18 rusty spinners. The best of these in in the photos below. There were also occasional gray drakes, pmds, and tricos on the water but my imitations of these yielded no success. During my next day, I did a float trip down the Snake River. The weather was again quite summer like, with brief periods of cloudiness in the pm. The ticket there seemed to be terrestrials. Below is a nice pic of a Snake River Cutthroat caught on a “mojo hopper”. After these two days I ventured across Teton Pass and drove up to the Henry’s Fork where I fished the Harriman State Park section. Within my first few casts I hooked and landed a nice 12″ Rainbow. It appeared that it was going to be great day. I spent the next 5 hours casting to fish that rose every half hour or so. All my presentations never even got a good look from these fish. Quite humbling. I have since returned to Flat Creek, again finding success with spinners: this time larger Calibeatis spinners. The weather has now turned with mixed rain and snow expected overnight in the valley. Tomorrow I am off to Yellowstone. Hopefully the trout will cooperate with me.
Hope all is well,
Roman