The South Fork of the Snake River begins at Palisades Dam near Irwin, Idaho, and flows northwest 66 miles to its confluence with the Henry’s Fork near the Menan Buttes. (Courtesy of Henry’s Fork Foundation photo)
March 02, 2026
By John Sadusky
This article was originally titled “Guardians of the South Fork” in the February-March 2026 issue of Fly Fisherman.
Standing at the edge of a riffle in Section One, a few miles below Palisades Dam, is my good friend Ron Miller. His eyes are locked on a large rising trout, feasting on hatching Pale Morning Duns in the beautiful afternoon sunlight. If I told him his hair was on fire, he wouldn’t hear a word I said—he is that focused. He makes a precise cast and gets a good drift above the feeding fish, only to have it ignored. Continuing to study what precisely it’s feeding on, he decides on a different bug.
“I need to go a...
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