Fishing Forum

Anyone fish the Snake River in Idaho Falls? Just wonderin how the fishing is there.
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The Snake is running pretty good right now. There is 12000 cfs coming out of Palies. The fishing up on that end has been slow. The water is cold and off color. I would wait a couple of weeks.
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I agree with Jacksonlaker. I fished Sat from Tilden Bridge to A.F. Res and only one bite. Friends of mine caught one small brown and a sucker the same day early in the morning. Water is still a little dirty and cool. I have been hearing that things are picking up from Palies down to Heise, but the Snake still has a ways to go before it gets good. I did fish below Palies 2 weeks ago on the river and me and the old lady caugth 10 cut throat, 2 were 2 lbs. Little disappointing having to throw them back now. Only good thing is we had our limit from the res. already. We were hoping for some rainbows or cutbows, but no such luck. They are just getting done with the spawn. Give the river about 2-3 more weeks and things should start improving, unless, Palies fills and then there will be more high water coming. Right now it is raising 2% a day with 25,000 cfm coming in and only 12,000 going out. That also does not include the other streams coming in from the surrounding mountains to the res. At this rate, Palies should be full around July 10, if the snow pack holds out. Hard to say if it will taper off by then and Jackson is also full now, so no more spare storage there.
Also, if any one is thinking about A.F. Res, it is dropping and warm @ 79 degrees and looks like pea soup. No luck fishing there either.
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I am going to Palies for the 4rth this weekend. Any word on fishing the reservoir. And what would you recommend for trolling?

Randy
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I limit out using pop gear (Nickel/Brass) and rapalas (Black&Gold or Brown Trout) @ about 40' deep @ 1.9-2.2mph on Palies.
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Took the drift boat up to the S Fork for the summer this weekend. We launched at the Swan Valley bridge both days and fished to Conant take out.
The bugs haven't gotten going yet. I caught a few on big stone fly nymphs, but there were no hatches save two yellow sallys I saw come off on saturday.
We caught about 30 fish each day between 3 of us on a 4 hour float. Only one 20", the rest were 12" to 16" with a couple of smaller ones.
Bows were healthy, Cutts looked post spawn and worn out, we only caught 1 brown.
Water temp was 54 and flow was 12,000 CFS.
We stayed at Humphry's cabins for $60, used Julies shuttle service for $10, ate a great steak dinner in Ivins for $14 and paid $20 a month to park the boat in a gated, fenced, locked storage area.

Good trip, I'll wait until after the 4th to go up again.
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I know some guys went to Palies last weekend and said the lake is full of debris and the water is very cloudy. I would use something flashy, like pop-gear or a dodger/spoon combo. Watch out for trees floating in the lake.
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Thank you for the info.

Randy
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Like was said, lots of floating sticks and a few logs. You'll be fine at trolling speeds.
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If any one does hit Palies this weekend, I would be interested in how Calamity's dock is for drift wood. It was terrible 2 weeks ago so I sent a nasty gram to the responsible person. He replied saying they would keep it clean. I may find my way up there Sat, but not sure yet.
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I was at the entrance of Bear Creek and didn't get down by the dam but I did drive down to Calamity in my truck and didn't notice any driftwood around the dock.
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