This is a native fish trip where we plan to catch some nice native species. Gary M from Gig Harbor, WA (Native Trout Fly Fishing blog) is meeting up with us and has been a valuable resource in planning—thanks Gary!
Here is the map and planned itinerary:
Monday 6/29
- DRIVE: Logan to Mountain Home
- FISH: Idaho – Bennett and Dive Creek – redbands (Columbia strain)
- FISH: Idaho – South Fork of the Boise- redbands (Columbia strain)
- DRIVE: Mountain Home to Burns to Frenchglen to Hot Springs Campground on Rock Creek
Tuesday 6/30
- DRIVE: Rock Creek
- FISH: Oregon – Rock Creek – redbands (Catlow/Great Basin strain)
- DRIVE: Guano Creek
- FISH: Oregon – Guano Creek – Alvords/Lahontans (not sure strain)
Wednesday 7/1
- DRIVE: Donner und Blitzen
- FISH: Oregon – Donner und Blitzen – redbands (Malheur-Harney strain)
- DRIVE: Willow Creek/Little Blitzen
- FISH: Oregon – Willow Creek – Lahontans (Whitehorse strain)
- DRIVE: As close to (or east of) Winnemucca as we can get
Thursday 7/2
- DRIVE: Charleston/Jarbidge
- FISH: Nevada – Bruneau/Jarbidge – bull trout
- DRIVE: Marys River
- FISH: Nevada – Marys River – Lahontan (Humboldt starin?)
Friday 7/3
- DRIVE: Bettridge Creek
- FISH: Utah – Bettridge Creek – Pyramid Lake Lahontans
- Drive: Toward home (through Raft River?)
- FISH?: Utah – Raft River drainage – Yellowstone cutts
- Drive: Home!
What a trip! I can’t wait to see the summaries and reports on this one.
Love the new layout on the website too. Very nice.
WFF,
Summaries/reports may just be filled with skeeter bites, sunburns and flat tires…but it should be interesting one way or the other.
Glad you like the new layout.
Good luck! I am so envious of this trip!
One of these days I plan to hit the northwest areas, they have quite the list of native salmonids.
Chris
Hey Chris!
Thanks for wishing us luck–we’ll surely need it!
When you make it to the NW, be sure to hook up with Gary and he’ll definitely point you in the right direction!
Awesome– I grew up in winnemucca! We’ll nearly be crossing paths on wednesday– I’m heading up to blue lakes in the pine forest complex and will be arriving in winnemucca late on wed night.
Have a great time! Can’t wait to hear how it goes…
Cheers,
–Brian J.
I looked for you Wednesday, but you weren’t one of the three cars we passed all day long
With all the rain this June, the area was beautiful. Full trip reportage starting a little later today (I hope).
That looks like a hell of trip, not that I know any of the places you’re going to of course. Wait a minute, you’ve already gone!
Look forward to reading about it, especially how you got on with the bull trout. Are they the same as Dolly Varden?
Eccles
Yes, we already left. But wait, if I’m writing this, we must be back!
Yes, bull trout = Dolly Varden.
Amazingly…no flat tires or vehicle problems! We were…umm…”on the receiving end of some good fortune”!
It takes so many more words, but sounds so much better!