{"id":772,"date":"2014-08-08T14:40:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T14:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=772"},"modified":"2014-08-08T14:40:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T14:40:26","slug":"fishing-bamboo-on-the-salmon-river-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"Fishing Bamboo on the Salmon River, Idaho"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s interesting how quickly trout respond to changes in river conditions.\u00a0 For the past several days, the Salmon River here in Stanley, Idaho has been blown out from flash floods that resulted in serious mud being dumped into the river.\u00a0 The normal crystal clear Salmon River had become a water system of chocolate milk, with visibility being reduced to nearly zero.\u00a0 But, a few days ago the river started to clear and Mary Ann and I were able to get out on the drift boat with one of my 8′\u00a0 3″\u00a0 5 wt. bamboo fly rods.\u00a0 We weren’t really expecting much out of the day but the fishing gods smiled on us.\u00a0 We managed to raise several fish on tan hoppers, and large streamers stripped through the deep runs worked also.\u00a0 Here are a couple of fat fish that came to the boat:<\/p>\n

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The Salmon River after clearing from a muddy mess.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A fat Westslope Cutthroat that took a large JJ Special streamer pattern.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A beautifully colored up Westslope Cutthroat that took a hopper.<\/p><\/div>\n

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It’s interesting how quickly trout respond to changes in river conditions.\u00a0 For the past several days, the Salmon River here in Stanley, Idaho has been blown out from flash floods that resulted in serious mud being dumped into the river.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[3,46,27,4,6,34,10,9,5,11],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing-bamboo","tag-bamboo-fly-rods","tag-bamboo-rods","tag-buildling-bamboo-rods","tag-dave-dozer","tag-fly-fishing","tag-making-bamboo-fly-rods","tag-mary-ann-dozer","tag-salmon-river","tag-silver-creek-outfitters","tag-stanley-idaho"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1JKLr-cs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}