Moose

Cow & Calf.  Copper Basin, Idaho

Nikon D3s, Nikon 80-200 afs f2.8 lens

Just about all of our water is starting to fish!  Green drakes are just getting going on the Big Wood River and water flows have dropped enough to make most of our rivers fishable and clear despite the fact they are still moving along and not necesarrily easy to wade.  This is your chance to fish big bugs on the Big Wood.  Green Drakes & Golden Stones...  The water in places is high enough to keep some people away but if you are willing to poke around it could be worth every rose-thorn cut... 

Silver Creek Feeding Rainbow Video

 

Here's a short clip I shot today on Silver Creek.  Not much in the way of bugs at the time I was there but there were enough baetis and midges to get a few fish up on the surface.  The wind that we have had the last to days is slated to end tonight.  We shall see...

 

Nikon D3s, Nikon 80-200 f2.8 afs lens

Copper Basin

Camping

Oxbow.  East Fork Big Lost River

 

Smores & Camp and one exhausted setter.

 

A Bend In The Stream

 

So much to do until there is no gas left...

 

The best part...

 

Camp

Nikon D3s, Nikon 14-24 afs f2.8 lens

The fishing was lousy and the wind BLEW.  We are probably a few weeks away from the wildflowers going off at higher elevation.  We saw two cars in two days...

Fly Fishing Photography

Silver Creek Brown Drakes

Four eyes are better than two. John Huber sends a spinner toward a toilet flush.


The Take

 

 

A Silver Creek Brown

 

The Release.  The brown drake hatch on Silver Creek is one of my favorite hatches for many reasons.  The warm light and the ephemeral spring-green being one reason.  The sheer volume and size of these mayflies is--while I have witnessed it many times before--an unforgettable experience.  As a pretty busy guide, it is really the only summer or fall hatch I regularly fish with friends and it has become a tradition to fish and hang out with a group of buddies and watch and participate as it all unfolds.

 

The fishing can be super good as well; that is until the fish are so distended and stuffed that they can no longer gorge with abandon.

 

 

We often fish well past dark and if we are lucky will stay on the water past midnight.

 

You can hear and see fish rising but cannot see your fly...

 

Moonlight near midnight


A headlamp is mandatory if you are planning on tying any knots.

Nikon D3s, Nikon 14-24 afs f2.8 lens


Backlit.  Brown Drake

Nikon D200, Nikon 105 micro lens

Brown Drakes II

Fly Fishing Photography

Caught In A Web.  Brown Drakes.  Silver Creek, Idaho

Brown Drake

Nikon D3s, Nikon 24 pc-e lens

With a strong emergence last night and many spinners in the grass this afternoon there should be quite a spinner fall tonight.  It should be a visual spectacle...