Henry's Fork in Mid/end June 2023 Thread

[schwerty]

But the soft hackle or other similar techniques could be good until august over there.
Quite honestly, I don’t care about catchin’ if there are folks here gathering for laughs, party favors and good grub.
I might suggest it be pushed ahead 2-14 days or pulled back a month-ish. But again, if fun and laughing can be had we can get over poor catching.


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[neckdeep]

But the soft hackle or other similar techniques could be good until august over there.

For sure. Lots of fish will be pressed up against the banks looking for nymphs and worms. If high sticking nymphs in the shallows at point blank range is your thing, theres plenty of fish to be caught at one's boot tips. All you need is about 1 foot visibility to catch fish on the bottom.

There's options but early june high water gives you about the most limited set of options of the season and you're one heavy rainstorm away from flood stage, like what happened last june.

[neckdeep]

Another big dump for the Henry's basin. Its going to take a flash flooding event in May to clear this much snowpack by early June. Rivers, even the tailwaters, could be fishing between poor to unfishable.

Bring your lake gear and a boat. And a big net. Henry's Lake still has monster fish.

Last fall, record hybrid.

[neckdeep]

Runoff is finally coming down. No more storage space in the lakes. Lower river is blown out and will be unfishable for now. Appx. 70% of snowpack remains.

[tgapp]

Runoff is finally coming down. No more storage space in the lakes. Lower river is blown out and will be unfishable for now. Appx. 70% of snowpack remains.

That's what's happening here too in Utah. Damn. I was really hoping to get on the Henry's Fork this June. Unrelated question - what non-blown out rivers should I look at exploring this summer?

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[neckdeep]

The Henrys is usually fishing well by mid-June even in a high water year. The Firehole and Warm rivers are the first rivers to clear up, usually fishable June 1.

[teleee]

I wouldn’t plan on the South Fork fishing well for at least 3 weeks, 5 is probably more realistic. We have caught a few fish but have had to work for them and the water is getting dirtier every day.


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[neckdeep]

Water levels are dropping surprisingly fast. I guess the ground is absorbing a lot of the snowpack this year. It's a week ahead of where I expected it to be.

With the freshet release this year, there's already been two major peaks to wash the silt off the banks. If this trend keeps up, river will be high but should have decent clarity during salmonfly hatch.

[schindlerpiste]

Changed my dates to 6/24-28. Staying at Henry's Lake State Park. Bringing my tandem fishing kayak. Hope to fish the lake down to Harriman's. Would love to see maggots

[swimmy]

Changed my dates to 6/24-28. Staying at Henry's Lake State Park. Bringing my tandem fishing kayak. Hope to fish the lake down to Harriman's. Would love to see maggots

If you are at the lake, you should head up to the Madison for a day. That is prime time big bug fishing.

[Harry]

Unrelated question - what non-blown out rivers should I look at exploring this summer?

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River X (!)


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[schindlerpiste]

If you are at the lake, you should head up to the Madison for a day. That is prime time big bug fishing.

Thanks! We are planning spending a day between the dam and Quake Lake.

[Phall]

Bringing a crew of road cyclists and fishers up 16-19th, drifters only, no rafts so my goal of another grandview to jumpoff was put off until another time.