Fly Fishing: Outside Yellowstone National Park - June - South Fork of the Snake River

When to Come and What To Expect:

Fly Fishing: Outside Yellowstone National Park – June – South Fork of the Snake River

The South of the Snake is a sixty plus mile long river with a variety of water types. It is a tailwater that starts below the Palisades Reservoir just across the Wyoming – Idaho state line. The river has a huge population of trout consisting of cutthroats, rainbows and browns.

The Salmonfly hatch starts in early June. There will be plenty of Golden Stoneflies hatching at the same time along with the smaller, Yellow Sallies, or Little Yellow Stoneflies. June is stonefly heaven on the South Fork of the Snake.

Hatches of mayflies also take place in June. There will be PMDs, or Pale Morning Dun mayflies, hatching from almost the beginning of the month of June. You will find some Green Drakes near the end of June. The caddisflies will just be starting to hatch in June.

We recommend you fish this river in June from a drift boat. There are miles of the river that isn’t accessible from the banks and without any access to the water to wade. Much of the river cannot be waded during normal to high water levels.

The canyon section of the South Fork is 24 miles long. It is generally broken down into three different float sections. The Salmonflies, Golden Stoneflies and Little Yellow Stoneflies will be thick in the canyon in June.

Make sure you contact some of the fine locals about the river levels and weather. The weather really fluctuates during early June, especially. We recommend choosing a time near the end of the month, or past the middle of June anyway.