Updates from August 12, 2018

Upper Mesa Falls

I was fairly astonished to see a river so wide that could be waded all the way across.

Thick clouds of mating caddisflies along the banks of the Henry's Fork.

A short (about 12") but football-fat, hard-fighting Henry's Fork rainbow. This was probably the best fish I caught in a morning of Trico fishing, although I hooked a nicer one--maybe 17"--and couldn't keep it out of the ubiquitous mats of vegetation on a 7X Trico tippet.

Huge raft of mergansers cruising the Henry's Fork.

Upper Mesa Falls

Lower Mesa Falls

Typical view of the upper part of the famous Harriman Ranch section of the Henry's Fork.

The sky darkened along the banks of the Henry's Fork by clouds of morning Trico spinners.

Upper Mesa Falls on the Henry's Fork of the Snake River