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More Summer Fly Fishing in Idaho

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We got the chance to fish Big Creek in Central Idaho this summer with a group of friends….fly in by small plane to a dirt runway…and pack horses to a wilderness camp. Fishing was excellent for cutthroats in the 10″ to 15″ range with large dry flies.  Mary Ann and I fished our 8′  0″  5 wt bamboo fly rods the entire trip.  Here are a few photos.

Waiting for the planes to take us to Big Creek.

Ready to board.

Big Creek down below.

Saddle Up!

 

Ready to ride!

Working a great run with dry flies.

A nice cuttie!

One More that fell to a Clark’s Stonefly Dry.

Updates to my WEB site.

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I haven’t posted for quite a while so I wanted to provide an update.  I’m in the process of re-designing and updating my WEB site.  I’m pretty excited about some new additions.  This past several months, I’ve been working on a new Fast Action Series of bamboo fly rods that will be available very soon.  These rods are great for anyone looking for a faster action rod that throws large flies well in windy conditions, or, just looking for something with a very nice fast action.  Also, I will now be offering custom Bamboo Wading Staffs that I’ve been building.  These are one-piece wading staffs built from the same select Tonkin bamboo that I use for my fly rods.  Stay tuned in the weeks ahead for my updates.

Fishing my local creek in October

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I made it out to my favorite local small creek this past week with my good friend, Joe.  I fished my 6′  8″ 3 wt bamboo and Joe took out his 7′ 0″  4 wt bamboo that he built in my workshop.  This creek runs right below my house and gets almost no fishing pressure,  so we had the water to ourselves for the afternoon.  This is some of my favorite kind of fly fishing…getting out on very small local waters with light bamboo fly rods.  We found several willing native rainbows in the 6″ t 11″ range ready to take assorted nymphs and dry flies.

My favorite small rod with a classic Pflueger 1492 reel.

Joe fighting a nice little rainbow

A nice fish landed!!!

We each caught several of these colorful native rainbows.

Fishing, Fishing, Fishing!!!

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted on my Blog…been fishing a lot this summer.  Mary Ann and I spent 6 weeks fishing in Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, and Colorado.  In Oregon we fished the Owyhee River, in Idaho we fished the Salmon River, Marsh Creek, and Bear Valley Creek, In Wyoming we fished the New Fork River, Savery Creek, North Platte River, and Encampment River.  In Colorado we fished the Frying Pan River, Yampa River, Service Creek, and the Poudre River.  And, we used a variety of bamboo rods along the whole trip.  Here are a few random photos from our “summer vacation”.

The Sawtooth Mountains near Stanley, Idaho.

The Salmon River

A beautiful Salmon River Cutthroat.

Marsh Creek, Idaho

A Marsh Creek Cutthroat

The New Fork River, Wyoming with our great guide, Ryan Hudson.

A beautiful New Fork Rainbow

Mary Ann fighting a Savery Creek Rainbow.

Cicadas were the bug-of-choice at Savery Creek

A Savery Creek Rainbow

A Frying Pan River rainbow that took a PMD Comparadun.

The Yampa River in Colorado

A beautiful brown that came to the surface for a dry.

A Yampa River Cutbow

Euronymphing on the Poudre River in Colorado

Service Creek, Colorado

A nice Service Creek Brookie

Savery Creek, Wyoming

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It’s been a busy summer so I haven’t posted for a while.  Mary Ann and I recently took a 3 week trip to Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho for some fantastic fly fishing.  I’ll share some photos from Savery Creek, Wyoming in this post.  Savery Creek is a very large working cattle ranch in central Southern Wyoming.  They have 18 miles of private trout water on their ranch.  And, they put strong limitations on the numbers of guests staying at the lodge so the water doesn’t get overfished.  First, Savery Creek is a very small tail water, populated with big rainbows, a few browns, and a few tiger trout.  Most of our fish were between 14″ and 20″.  All their fishing is guided, and our guides, Bryce and Matt, did a fantastic job.  We fished 4 days on the ranch, and never put on a subsurface fly….everything was dry fly fishing, mostly with cicadas, hoppers, ants, and some smaller mayflies and caddis.  Mary Ann and I both fished 5 wt bamboo fly rods. Fishing was great, the lodge was great, and the meals were great.  All in all, we had a fantastic time and are hoping to get back there next year.  Here are a few photos:

Getting to the Lodge…crossing Savery Creek.

Savery Creek, Wyoming

Inside the Lodge at Savery Creek.

Searching for a fish.

A typical Savery Creek Rainbow.

A beautiful Rainbow.

A nice Savery Creek Trophy.