New Film Explores Attributes & Challenges Facing Snake River

Frog Water Productions’ latest film – Iconic Rises – highlights the reverence our local fly fishing community has for our native Snake River fine spotted cutthroat and Wyoming Snake River watershed. It also deep dives into the threats the fishery faces from climate change, congestion, water usage within the upper Snake system, and how to more equitably meet the needs of the ecosystem and those who cherish it.

Iconic Rises explores these challenges through discussions with numerous stakeholders, including nonprofits, anglers, guides, and outfitters. Perhaps the most critical issues examined in this film are the steep winter-flow drawdown event on the Snake in 2022 and the proposal by the Bureau of Reclamation to draw down flows from Jackson Lake Dam to 50cfs in the spring of 2023. Iconic Rises illustrates how the partnership of numerous stake holders – including Snake River Fund, Trout Unlimited, Wyoming Game and Fish, Friends of the Bridger-Teton, Grand Teton National Park, and a community of full of anglers and other river users – came together to hold the levers of power and influence to account for their actions, and even change course.

Iconic Rises provides a large and inspiring ray hope – hope that arises when voices from the community unite with regional and national parties to solve critical problems.

An official selection of the 2025 Fly Fishing Film Tour, this is easily one of the most important conservation productions of the year. You can view the trailer HERE. The full-length film will be available in November.