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Wind River

Wind River is a 2017 neo-Western crime film written and directed by Taylor Sheridan. It is the third film by Taylor Sheridan on the modern American West. The film stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen as a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tracker and an FBI agent, respectively, who try to solve a murder on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. From Wikipedia

Flow now

Wind River Near Kinnear, WY, 17 mi from the river.

427cfsat build, Nov 12, 12 PM MT

The typical week here, from 10 years of record: 412 cfs to 552 cfs, around 463 cfs.

Water temperature at the gauge: 57°F.

Also gauged at Bull Lake Creek Above Bull Lake, WY: 115 cfs, Nov 12.

Snowpack

0.7 in of water in the snow at St. Lawrence Alt and 2 more stations, against a median 1.8 in for the date (39 % of normal).

The season, November

Usually workable this week. Pick your window and fish it well.

Midgessizes 18 to 22
Small eggs and worms
Pheasant tail and zebra midge nymphsunder an indicator

Typical for the week over 10 years: 412 to 552 cfs. Running 427 cfs today, inside that range. Flows are not forecast; check the gauge the day before.

Brown Trout are spawning (October to December). Stay off clean, light-coloured gravel in riffle tails and pool tailouts, and leave paired fish alone.

Brook Trout are spawning (September to November). Stay off clean, light-coloured gravel in riffle tails and pool tailouts, and leave paired fish alone.

Mountain Whitefish are spawning (October to December). The egg bite behind spawning whitefish is the best winter nymphing of the year: an egg pattern below the riffles.

Egg patterns in the runs below the spawning gravel, never on it.

Written by the app's rules engine from the calendar, the gauge record and the snowpack, not by hand, so it says only what the data says. The weather for the week comes with the app.

Fly shops on this water

Cutthroat Fly Shop & Adventures DuboisWebsite

Open Wind River in FlyMaster for today's plan, the flies, and your own log here.

Flows from the U.S. Geological Survey, snowpack from the NRCS SNOTEL network, text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Built Nov 12.