Stream Kid
08-27-08, 12:11 AM
I took a drive about 1.5 hours west of Boise, ID today so that I could cast to a few browns over in OR. I planned to search a certain tributary of the Boise river today for Bull trout, but found out there is a 18,000 acre forest fire burning up in that part of the state.
Anyway, I really enjoyed catching some monster browns over in Oregon. This river is no secret to us flyfisherman in the Boise area (or probably to anyone in Idaho or Oregon)...however, I think I only saw 2 other fishermen on the water today.
The air temp started off about 50 degrees early this am, the high was about 73 (cold front moved in about 8 pm last night). It was sunny and slightly windy I got about 10 fish to hand, including 1 fat rainbow (the rest were browns). I am not admitting to how many fish I broke off or missed because of my impatients. Most of my fish came off of a brown or black zebra midge. Also caught 1 on a caddis pupa, soft hackle prince pattern, and an elk hair caddis.
These 3 fish that I actually took time to take pictures of are good examples of the average size brown that come out of the river. I think catching the fish was the easy part...actually getting them to hand took lots of patients (including an arm workout). To put things in perspective...I don't carry a net on the Madison....
Anyway, I really enjoyed catching some monster browns over in Oregon. This river is no secret to us flyfisherman in the Boise area (or probably to anyone in Idaho or Oregon)...however, I think I only saw 2 other fishermen on the water today.
The air temp started off about 50 degrees early this am, the high was about 73 (cold front moved in about 8 pm last night). It was sunny and slightly windy I got about 10 fish to hand, including 1 fat rainbow (the rest were browns). I am not admitting to how many fish I broke off or missed because of my impatients. Most of my fish came off of a brown or black zebra midge. Also caught 1 on a caddis pupa, soft hackle prince pattern, and an elk hair caddis.
These 3 fish that I actually took time to take pictures of are good examples of the average size brown that come out of the river. I think catching the fish was the easy part...actually getting them to hand took lots of patients (including an arm workout). To put things in perspective...I don't carry a net on the Madison....