Fishing Reports

Fishing for Desert Natives – Day 1

July 17, 2009 ⋅ 5 comments

Day 1 of Dan’s and Scott’s Desert Natives Fishing Trip: Idaho (fishing Bennett Creek and South Fork of the Boise) and driving to Oregon. Enjoy the adventure along with us.

Fishing for Desert Natives – Preface

July 6, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Background to Dan and Scott’s Desert Natives Fishing Trip along the northern edge of the Great Basin. Wherein you learn a little about the Great Basin and the main target of the trip.

Cinnamon Creek Fishing – Learning to Fish

June 20, 2009 ⋅ 7 comments

Cinnamon Creek is fishing well. We got to take/teach a fly fishing newbie, Ken. It’s interesting how many things a seasoned angler just “knows,” but you have have to learn at some point, like drift.

The Kryptonite Hatch

June 13, 2009 ⋅ 12 comments

What is it that can bring grown men to their knees, begging both boss and wife for permission to drop all vestiges of responsible adulthood and flee with abandon to River A for the hatch of all hatches? The Kryptonite Hatch!

Early Morning Fishing Soliloquy

June 7, 2009 ⋅ 12 comments

Fly fishing alone in the early morning hours on Blacksmith Fork River is comforting and nostalgic.

Micro-Creek Fishing

May 30, 2009 ⋅ 12 comments

Fishing small, out of the way tributaries, for native cutthroat trout.

Salmonfly-BSF-2009

May 30, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

Salmonfly hatch in progress on the Blacksmith Fork River, Utah.

Caddis Bust

April 29, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

Well, plenty of caddis, (all the fuzzy tan things in the air)

Utah’s Mother’s Day Caddis Hatch?

April 28, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

The caddis are swarming fast and furious on Utah’s Blacksmith Fork River. And the water is high and brown.

The best kind of frustrating

April 10, 2009 ⋅ 10 comments

Fly fishing South Fork of the Boise River brings to mind that fly fishing to rising trout can be the best kind of frustration there is.

Big Lost River 2009 – updated with pix

March 23, 2009 ⋅ 12 comments

Fly fishing Idaho’s Big Lost River is a great spring trip.

Mouth to River Resuscitation

January 22, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

The air was heavy. Literally pressing down into the valley. The snow-covered ground doesn’t absorb any radiant heat. It’s a cycle: fog and pollution combine to block the sun’s rays and what little makes it through is not enough to melt the snow or warm the ground. Temperatures only get into the mid-twenties on the [...]

Oneida Narrows – Fishing

January 1, 2009 ⋅ 12 comments

When I woke up yesterday morning, I wasn’t quite as excited to go fishing as I had been the night before because the temperature was an icy 6° F. But there was an excellent sunrise to the east: Bear River Mountain Range:

Last Foray?

November 3, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

Our last foray into Idaho this year? Quite possibly. It didn’t start too well. I swung by Dan’s house as I was heading home. He was putting siding on his shed and I honked. He swung toward me and grazed a finger across the chip board (wafer board), thereby skewering the middle knuckle of his [...]

South Fork and Henry’s Fork of the Snake – Report

October 21, 2008 ⋅ 3 comments

Last Friday (Ocotber 17) and Saturday (October 18) saw Dan (for long-time readers, that’s Talking Bull) and I plying the waters of the forked Snake. Kevin (from The Cutthroat’s Spot) was kind enough to give us some insider information (he lives ten minutes from the South Fork—lucky bugger!) on the river. We heeded his advice [...]