We are finally starting to see little green stoneflies on the Snake River in Wyoming. There are rarely a large number of them and this is true this year, but they are always fun to see because they ring in a new part of the season on th Snake River. I fished from Wilson to South Park a couple of days ago and saw about a dozen little greens on the bank and stream surface. In the afternoon we fished Lime Trudes and Jimmy Zs and caught two of the bigger fish of the day - one 18" cutthroat and another at 18 1/2". It was a pretty solid day with another 1/2 dozen that came in between 14" and 17". A classic early spring day on the Snake. The dry fly action is outstanding and the window of surface action is increasing as the daytime temps are growing increasingly warmer.
The South Fork continues to fish very well from Palisades Reservoir to Wolf Eddy. Good numbers of cutthroats and rainbows throughout these reaches and some very good sized browns on the lower end, some approaching 20 inches. The surface action is almost as good as the nymphing. But what is interesting is that we are experiencing a funny hatch of large caddis in late afternoon. I almost want to call them October caddis but their bodies are far narrower than your average Dicosmoecus. This is a strange insect that I really can't remember if I have seen before. What I can tell you is that I am fishing a narrow bodied version of Rob Water's Chamois Caddis Pupa and picking up a fair number of raibows and cutthroats (and yes, a good number of whitefish, also).
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