Big Wood River Below Magic Reservoir

At around 900 cfs, the Big Wood River below Magic Reservoir is quite swift to wade but from a drift boat it's just right... On this particular day, the PMD's (Pale Morning Duns) were prolific. The water color and surreal greens and basalt is really quite striking this time of year.

Brown Drake Spinner Fall

Last night's Brown Drake spinner fall was a spectacle. We usually have one super heavy night and last night was it.

John Huber searches for a riser in the midst of a crazy Brown Drake spinner fall.

Waning light and spinner fall madness. Ray Gadd.

From dun to spinner. A Brown Drake sheds a layer.

Spinners

Guide hat and Drakes.

Brown Drake Spinner.

Silver Creek Brown Drakes IV

Here are a few more images from the last few evenings on Silver Creek...

Nick Anderson finds a target during a decent post 9 pm emergence.

John Huber and an after dark Brown.

Silver Creek Brown Drakes III

The Drake thing this year in addition to coming off early is creeping upstream at a snails pace. There was a small emergence and spinner fall late this morning as we had a little cloud cover. Hopefully tonight is a good as last night...

Brown Drake & Negative Space. Silver Creek, Idaho.

Brown Drake. Silver Creek, Idaho. There were not many bugs in the grass this morning but I did find a few including this one.

Silver Creek Brown Drakes II

Below is what happens when you get a couple of guides together and there really are no bugs but there are a few beers in the cooler and a pretty great night otherwise. It was about 39Ėš when we left the water around 11 pm and the bugs essentially didn't happen where we were. This could be a long drawn out Drake year...

Another version of utilizing a fly rod when there is no hatch... Silver Creek.

Silver Creek Brown Drakes

The Brown Drakes on Silver Creek started two nights ago. This is one of my favorite times of the year to be on Silver Creek. Expect to have about 5 more good nights with tonight and tomorrow night likely to have the most prolific bugs...

Bent Rod, Brown Drakes and Silver Creek.

Opening Day Silver Creek

In lieu of fishing with the masses on Saturday, opening day of fishing this year, three of us headed out to Silver Creek to get our first casts in at the stroke of midnight and the new season. We were just mousing around... Below are a couple of milky way images. There was a meteor shower on Friday night too but was not that spectacular from our vantage. The milky way, however, was lit up and spectacular.

First casts of the 2014 season on Silver Creek.

Silver Creek, two fishermen and the milky way.