Salmon Flies, Fishing and Weather

I guess if you read back through some of my blog posts several of them are about the weather. And most of them are about bad weather, because if the weather is good around here I don’t want to sit in front of my computer. I want to be running, biking, fishing etc. But man the weather has been shitty up here, woke up to snow again on Saturday and there is a “Winter Weather Advisory” tonight through tomorrow….come on winter weather in late May?

Anyway it seems the insects don’t care if Mother Nature still thinks it’s winter they have to do what they have to do. The Salmon Flies have started their great annual emergence on the Henry’s Fork and when I was invited to join some friends for a float down the Lower Mesa Falls section I grabbed all my warm clothes, some Salmon Fly patterns and hit the road.

Here’s a video or two and some pictures….