Portneuf River Report 8/29/2009

Water Carity: fair

Water Temp: unknown, but warm still

Weather: Mostly cloudy 65 degrees.

Time: 9:00-11:00

Bugs: Caddis, small mayflies (not many), grasshoppers.

Not many fish moving this morning on the River but it is beginning to show signs of life. I hooked into one really nice fish and saw a handful of others working. The water quality is getting much better. The banks of the river were swarming with hoppers by 11:00 but fish are still not keying on them. We need some colder nights in order to really start the fish on the hunt. My guess is that due to the nice weather and warm nights that the fish are active at night. I would be interested to fish the Portneuf at night and find out if the big boys more active in the warm months. I expect the quality of the fishing on the river to change dramatically in the next few weeks.

Blackfoot River Report

Water off color

Air temp: 60

Bug activity: some PMD's, very minimal.

Usually the Blackfoot River is low and clear this time of year, but this has been anything but a normal year. Today the Blackfoot was still off color and running a little high. The narrows is really the place to be as the water that is usually too low to fish is actually quite nice right now. There were good numbers of active fish closer to the National Forest boundary on the west end of the river. I found some really nice fish in this section, they were feeding just subsurface on what looked like emerging PMD's. I really would expect for the river to clear a little more in the next few weeks and for the fish to get really active as the nights get colder and the hoppers get bigger.