June. Idaho…. Eric Neufeld on a beautiful early summer evening.
Silver Creek
John Huber and a beautiful Silver Creek brown trout from yesterday, Feb 4.
The FlyFish Journal Winter Issue
Excited to have the Table Of Contents spread in the current issue of The FlyFish Journal.
Silver Creek Tricos
Tricos are now pretty much on each morning at Silver Creek...
Male Trico
Silver Creek Rainbow
Heat of the day. Packed SUV's leave dust contrails on their way north with float tubes plastered to the roofs. Pretty soon Silver Creek is left with those who don't know any better or those who hope the weed beds will soon be smothered in a giant blue orgy. I've banked on it plenty of times and come up empty handed. It's a bit of a roll of the dice, but when it happens and enough fish are keyed into Damselflies, it'll make for a memorable afternoon.
A Silver Creek rainbow after taking a Damselfly.
Rising Rainbow Trout
Here are a few images of rainbows trying to eat damsels on Silver Creek a few days ago... Double Click on any of the images to enlarge.
Silver Creek Damsel Flies
A Silver Creek rainbow stalks damsel flies from below.
Silver Creek Tricos
Tricos have been happening in small numbers on the lower stretches of Silver Creek... Here are a few images of female Tricos.
Female Trico. Silver Creek. Late June.
American Angler
Excited to have the back cover in the current issue of American Angler. Perfect timing as the Brown Drake thing just ended...
Brown Drakes smother a wooden fence post on Silver Creek, Idaho.
Silver Creek
Brown Drakes did not happen last night, but, as always, it was a great time waiting, watching and hoping... Silver Creek, Idaho.
English Setter extraordinaire, Boone, takes on brown drake watch duty.
The FlyFish Journal
Here's one of 4 images appearing in the new issue of The FlyFish Journal:
John Huber and Jimmy Coale, pictured, last June on Silver Creek...
Silver Creek, Idaho
Here's an image taken of Silver Creek this morning, March 1st. Our snowpack is in the +/- 175% of normal which will most likely translate into large streamflows in the months ahead. Once the weather decides to warm up, Silver Creek could see near record flows.
Silver Creek
A recent winter day on Silver Creek not far from the Picabo Bridge.
Silver Creek, Idaho
A Great November Day On Silver Creek
The Silver Creek Preserve and Double R sections of Silver Creek close on December 1st of each year. It's the final week to fish these pieces of water and with relatively warm temps it's been really good (it did snow about 1" today though).
Silver Creek & The Queen's Crown
Another warm and beautiful November day on Silver Creek. The weather will change but this is what we've had a lot of here.
Silver Creek, Idaho. November
Silver Creek In November
Indian summer here. Strangely warm days yet still beautiful on Silver Creek.
Silver Creek & Picabo, Idaho. November, 2016
Picabo, Idaho
Of all of the iconic Sun Valley, Idaho area places in the fly fishing arena, I think of Picabo at the top of the heap. It has, namely, Silver Creek running through it's backyard.
The prairie landscape is striking in more subtle ways than the mountains to the north. The culture in Picabo is quite different than that of its more upscale close neighbor, Ketchum (think Sun Valley, Idaho), to the north. Picabo, while absolutely tiny, is an amalgamation of ranchers and farmers and ranch hands and cowboys and even a few fishermen.
HWY 20 near Picabo on any given morning before the sun rises, is active with mainly the ranchers and farmers driving their respective pick-ups to work sites.
While being very interested in the specific fishing aspects of Silver Creek, I'm also really interested in the periphery of trout streams throughout the world. The periphery to me is the human and landscape aspect near a trout stream that is not necessarily fishing-centric. Farm workers and laborers, cowboys, hunters, Chilean gauchos, shepards and anyone else who may be a stakeholder near a river are examples of the trout stream periphery.
The Queen's Crown & Picabo. Fall 2016
Baetis Smorgasbord
Baetis Galore. Late Fall. Silver Creek, Idaho.
Silver Creek
Silver Creek. October 2016
Raindrops and risers. Silver Creek.
Silver Creek Rising Rainbow
Cool and cloudy weather and often times flat out wet weather over the last two weeks have really ramped up the hatches on Silver Creek. Baetis and Mahogany Duns have been super consistent except for the days with too much rain. The image below was taken on Silver Creek during light rain and a good Baetis emergence.