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We at DFI would love to hear about your own fish stories! Please feel free to post a tale or two about your successes and what you used to achieve them. If you have photos, please email them to us and we would love to post them for you. Fly fishing is an experience, and [...]
Owyhee River Fishing Report 9-3-2010- Dry Fly Fish Idaho
It was in the sheen light of dusk maybe half hour until black dark, I positioned directly across the river from the glow of the sunken sun. It spread a perfect glisten to see the tiny #22 Caddige (dry fly fish Idaho) fly on the surface. I had targeted a giant fish and dead drifted [...]
South Fork of the Boise River Report (8/17/2010)- Dry Fly Fish Idaho
Wow!! The South Fork (dry fly fish Idaho) is fishing brilliantly right now!! The pink mayflies are coming off in the mid afternoon, dark caddis is popping after sundown and the hopper fishing is awesome between. There’s giant rainbows sipping bugs in the foam lines and riffles; and smacking hoppers off the grass brushes and [...]
Owyhee River Report- Dry Fly Fish Idaho
Wow!! Can you spell butt kicking! Well that was my experience on the Owyhee (8-12-2010). I got to the river around 1:00 pm and fished until dark. I tried big bugs, small bugs, and everything in between and all of them produced the same result. There was very few fish at the hook.
There was a [...]
South Fork of the Boise River 8/12/10- Dry Fly Fish Idaho
Wow!! What a gem of fly fishing water we have in our backyard. The South Fork of the Boise River (dry fly fish Idaho) was fishing as good today as any other time I can remember. There were massive PMD and Pink Mayflies coming off intermittently throughout the day, and the fish were vulnerable at [...]
St. Joe River, Day 2; 8/9 (Dry Fly Fish Idaho
I started early into the canyon that I located the previous day at Milepost 60. The shade was still on the water and my tie-on fly was a Gray Hatching Emerger #16 (dry fly fish Idaho) that would imitate the large gray mayfly I’d seen the day before. After hucking a fly to holding water [...]
St. Joe River 8/8 (Dry Fly Fish Idaho)
After yanking a spoon around for two days fishing Mackinaw (dry fly fish Idaho), it felt really good to have a fly rod in my hand. And add to that a spectacular crystal-clear river made it even better. We traversed the river from St. Maries on FH-50 through Calder and onto Avery. It was all [...]
Priest Lake 8/6-8/7 “Hodacking” for Mackinaw (Dry Fly Fish Idaho)
Well it’s not your classic dry fly fishing, but it’s what you do when the fish are laying on the bottom–162 feet from the surface of this giant lake. It’s a unique style of fishing, done with copper lines, open-faced reels, and salmon poles. You reach the bottom by feeding line by hand for the [...]
Mill Creek 8/5 (Dry Fly Fish Idaho)
I was born and raised fishing the small tributaries off the Salmon River, and Mill Creek (dry fly fish Idaho) is the classic small mountain stream. It has perfect spawning water for small cutthroat trout. The best you can do is catch a small batch of eating fish to keep their populations under control. The [...]
Middle Fork of the Salmon River – 7/31/10 (dry fly fish Idaho)
Two and a half miles above Dagger Falls and about 12 miles down river from yesterday’s blog.
The day started exactly like the previous day—on about my third cast with a #12 Black Gold Hardback (dry fly fish Idaho), I hooked and landed a 13-inch cutty. Then exactly like the day before, I began catching numerous [...]
Marsh Creek – 7/30/10 (dry fly fish Idaho)
(Two miles above the confluence of Bear Valley Creek)
After a 3-mile walk down Marsh Creek, I did the same thing I always do when fishing an unknown stretch of water: Find a great looking stretch of water across the river and wade across. It’s always less likely that someone else would wade the river and [...]