In reviewing my last few posts, I have come to realize that I am sounding more like a climatologist than and fly fisherman. Nonetheless, winter weather is critical to what happens on trout streams in the summer. We have just had another storm roll through the eastern Idaho/western Wyoming area and this one packed a solid punch. 33 inches dropped in a 24 hour period at Grand Targhee (January 23rd to the 24th). More importantly, the Snake River watershed experienced a big upsurge in its water content. It went from 56% on January 22nd to 62% on January 24th. Five percentage points is a big jump over a two day period. We will keep hoping for more snow over the next couple of months to help drive the water content even higher. This could spell good things for the second half of the 2010 season on the Snake, especially on the South Fork.
The upper Green River basin is moving p a bit, too. It now stands at 55%, which is better than last week.
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