Silver Creek

A "Morrish" Hopper & A Silver Creek Brown

 

Another take...

 

Ok, for the past 2 weeks I have essentially been away from my computer.  Pros and cons with that.  I have been on the river 7 days a week though.  It is smokey and hot here.  Water levels have all dropped and it's hopper and trico time.  The bugs have been starting on Silver Crek around 7:45 AM and today there was a good pmd spinner fall in the Nature Conservancy section of Silver Creek that lasted until about 11:15 AM...  Almost no baetis where I was.  Just tricos, pmd's, damsel flies and hoppers.

 

Nikon D3s, Nikon 14-24 f2.8 lens

Gannett, Idaho

View from Gannett, Idaho looking toward Sun Valley.

 

Swingset, Pool & Gannett Home

 

Gannett Resident.

 

Barley.  Gannett, Idaho

 

Nikon D3s, Nikon 24 pc-e lens & Nikon 80-200 afs f2.8 lens

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...