Fishing Report

Where:

Silver Creek & Big Wood River - Ketchum / Sun Valley, ID

Where

Silver Creek & Big Wood River (Ketchum / Sun Valley, ID)

For
Rainbow and Brown Trout

What We Caught

Stopped counting the 12"-17" inchers. Three hogs around 18" - 22"

What We Learned
That fishing a spring creak full of veteran hogs is extremely hard and fishing a freestone river packed with HUNGRY trout fattening up for winter is so easy it feels wrong.

Sick fishing - period. If you make it out to Sun Valley, don't spend all your time getting frustrated by the fish that know your Crippled Callibaetis is on 6X and not 7X and isn't really crippled. Mosey on over to the Big Wood where the fish think you are bringing thanksgiving dinner. When your arms get tired of the arduous chore of catching sizable fish, go back over to Silver Creek and test your skills again. Fish, repeat & thank God for making such amazing places.

Field Report

Where

Henderson, NC

What

Opening Day 2010

What We Bagged

Not a Damn Thing

Correction: Andrew got one.

What We Learned

That dove don't fly the day after a hurricane comes through, I guess.

Fishing Report Update

Where:

New River, Giles Co., VA

I finally dug the camera out of the travel bag. New River was windy so the camera didn't make it out much. I did manage to snap a few of the boat with the expert fish sniffer.

Fishing Report

Where

New River, Giles Co., VA

For

Smallmouth

What We Caught

Some Redeyes and and a whole bunch of 10"-14" inch smallmouth.

What We Learned

That Muskie eat Smallmouth, and that the locals are not happy about this fact. Seriously, this section of the New is flat full of fish. Simply trolling a fly behind the canoe while paddling triggered more than a couple of hookups. The fish themselves are really cool -- a longer, leaner, darker green version of smallie that the New has here in NC. But the word on the street is that the muskies the Virgina DNR is busy dumping into the river are destroying the fishery. There are still plenty of big fish in the river -- my brother landed a 3+ lb. monster on a solo trip two weeks prior -- but we never so much as saw a fish over 14". Why? Well, all those muskie gotta eat something.

Oh, and Hurricane Earl was coming through, a paddling three miles downstream with a 40 mph headwind flat sucks.

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