Early Runoff!

http://www.snakeriverangler.com/REPORTS---ENTERTAINMENT.html

Last year when my mom and I rolled into Jackson, WY. There was still 6 feet of snow stacked up on the passes and maybe 10 to 12 inches on the ground down in the valley. I remember my first day of fishing on June 2nd, it was about 30 degrees and snowing. The record snow-pack last year with over 700 inches, and the cold weather throughout June, caused the runoff to start around July 1st. Which is almost two and a half weeks late compared to "normal" years. Anyway this was difficult for me because I only had three months of fishing and working there and two of those months had been taken away due to snow and heavy runoff. But this wasn't bad because it prompted me to go explore more water and more incredible scenery around Northwest Wyoming.

As you can see in the link I attached of my shop's fishing report, this year is a much different story. The rivers are already in full runoff with such a small snow-pack throughout the winter and unbelievably warm temperatures during the "cold" months. So hopefully the Snake will be clear and ready to fish by early to mid June. This is good for me because the fishing will be awesome right when I get out there and throughout the summer but years like these usually means the fall won't hardly have any water and the fishing might not be too good. By the way this is the locals favorite time to fish because all of the tourists and "90 day wonders" (College students that come work and live in JH for the summer) will have left to go back to college.

Can't wait to get back out there. Only 24 days.... But in the mean time I'm headed back to the Caney this weekend with Hayes to go after some more brownies and rainbows. Stay tuned!