Boone, North Carolina, United States I fished Sunday morning at Helton Creek. (I guide near Boone, NC as well as Florida's Everglades)The temperature was about 42° when I started and pretty much had the creek to mysel...
Ketchum, Idaho, United States âOurs is the grandest sport. It is an intriguing battle of wits between an angler and a trout; and in addition to appreciating the tradition and grace of the game, we play it in the mag...
RÃo Gallegos, Santa Cruz , Argentina An Argentina lover and good spanish speaker, Mr. Lars Ivarsson was joining me and my family for the Route of the spring Creeks. Lars is one of the most relaxed fisherman I know, an...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States
The upper end of Sullivanâs Slough is aptly named the Shark Tank. From the road cutting across the sage covered hillside above the Slough, gawkers stop and admire the size and quan...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh untainted air."
â Theodore Gordon
For some, the concept of winter fly f...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "Two things are certain this year, there will be an extended high water season when the snow starts melting; the timing and the magnitude of the peak flows are unknown at this time, and t...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States The best way to deal with the heatâ¦go fly fishing! But protect yourself from the sun while you are at it with a long sleeve fishing shirt and pants, sun gloves, a proper hat, and a B...
Reno, Nevada, United States Fall is defianatley here in the Sierra's and the fishing has exploded. we have had a low water year but sections of river still hold fishable water and the fish are happy happy happy!!! Now is...
Vail, Colorado, United States http://www.vailvalleyanglers.com/fishing-conditions
Current Conditions
The upper Colorado from Pumphouse down to Dotsero is fairly icy in spots and the fishing is poor to fair. There is ...
Ketchum, Idaho, United States Silver Creek Outfitters Fly Fishing Forecast May 11-25
"Fish come and go, but it is the memory of the afternoons on the stream that endure." ~ E. Donnall Thomas
Only a few weeks until...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States âYellowstone River closed in response to on going fish kill.â ~Montana Fish and Wildlife Website
The parasite that is killing whitefish and trout in the Yellowstone is prese...
Ketchum, Idaho, United States And everything under the sun is in tune. But the sun is eclipsed by the moon.
â Pink Floyd
If you have not heard, the Sun Valley and Stanley area is in the path of totality for the ...
Colorado, United States It's Caddis season on the Eagle, Colorado and Roaring Fork Rivers. Yellow Sally's and PMD's too. The rivers are dropping as run-off is ending. Conditions are excellent! This is some of the best dry fly fishing of the year.
RÃo Gallegos, The Route of the Spring Creeks, Argentina In the making of the Route of the Spring Creeks we started with this report of the first scouting and include also some data and pics from the whole season.
The...
Pennsylvania, United States Streamer fishing has been very good over the past few days and will continue to produce well as long as sufficient flows and warm temperatures don't drive the fish down. Covering all water wel...
Argentina Anxiously awaiting the new season. 2014 was a special year with great willow worm and minnow hatches in abundance along with our other great hatches. Hopper fishing was the best in years and midge fishing in th...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "I didn't know it, but a radical change had taken place in my life. I had become a fisherman and would never be quite the same again." ~Jack Hemingway
With the air and water cooling do...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "With melted snow I boil fragrant tea.â
â Mencius
The snow keeps coming. As of February 6th, the Big Wood Basin is at 144% of average and the Little Wood and Big Lost are no...
El Calafate, Santa Cruz, Argentina Brook Trout fishing in South Patagonia
One of the most famous kind of fish for its beauty and the fun of catching them is brook trout, salvelinus fontinalis. Lately Patagonia âc...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States âI salute the gallantry and uncompromising standards of wild trout, and their tastes in landscapes.â
â John Madson
If it is true that your surroundings shape your thoug...
Jackson, Wyoming, United States Wrapped up our 2014 season last week and as we write this heavy snow has moved into the region, this is good for next season's water. Fishing is still an option on the warmer days and you ...
RÃo Gallegos, Santa Cruz , Argentina First 1week of January, as usual, we got the visit of our english friends. David and Sarah. David fishes very well and Sarah is a experienced horse rider.
Pelke was our first sto...
RÃo Gallegos, Santa Cruz , Argentina Our "Film Week" hosted by the talented film producer and great caster Cesar de la Hoz had arrived. Cesar along Pepe and Aitor Coteirón, all from Spain were visiting my place to ...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "To fish, fine and far off, is the first principle rule for trout angling ." ~ Charles Cotton (1676)
This is especially true in the fall. This time of year, all our fisheries are low ...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "The poetry of the sport hooked me long before I learned the prose." - Judy Muller
There are those who fish with precision, making each cast direct and to the point. And there are thos...
Lago Strobel, Santa Cruz, Argentina Estancia Laguna Verde lodge
WEEK REPORT
Week: 1
Date: November 1st to 8 2015
Report: 1
WEATHER CONDITIONS:
â¢Weather was cold with high winds and sunny the first days, and as the week progressed,
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States Fishing Forecast 5-27 to 6-3
"What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch." ~ Patrick F. McManus
Despite the rain and cool weather, a few Brown...
Ketchum, Idaho, United States âIn the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.â âAlexander Smith
We have come full circle and paused on the tipping point of ...
Ketchum, Idaho, United States âAs we try to estimate future streamflow scenarios, please remember that Mother Nature bats last and she can be a switch hitter.â
â Idaho Water Supply Outlook Report June 1, ...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "...this winter I'm determined to for once fish sensibly, and by that I mean in comfort, to try not only to match the hatch but also to match the weather."
â Tom Sutcliffe, MD
Fi...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States âNo fisherman ever fishes as much as he wantsâ¦this is the first great rule of fishing, and it explains a world of otherwise inexplicable behavior.â â Geoffrey Norman
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Sun Valley, Idaho, United States Autumn is the silence before the storm, and all nature knows there is work to be done. As the days get shorter, the trout feast on the last mayflies of the year, like squirrels gathering ...
El Calafate, Santa Cruz, Argentina Season nº5 says goodbye and here goes a summary by the head guide and manager from this program Juan Ma:
Every season we learn more about our land and waters. This particular seas...
Manchester, Iowa, United States Water is low and clear. Browns are just finishing up their spawn. Brook trout are colored up as well. Sleath is the main factor in catching these fish. 6x and 7x is necessary. Fish are eat...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "Water is taught by thirst." - Emily Dickinson
Due to the warm weather and rain over the last week, the low altitude snow has started to melt. Our freestones and tail-waters are alread...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States âIt was a long time since Nick had looked into a stream and seen trout. They were very satisfactory.â ~Ernest Hemingway, from âBig Two-Hearted Riverâ
The satisfaction...
Arezzo,perugia, spoleto, Italy
Nera is a spring creek that flows through a steep and narrow Umbrian limestone valley. This section of âNo Killâ began in 1994. It isfamous for the big trout that rise on dry fl...
Ketchum, Idaho, United States âTHERE IS NO TAKING TROUT IN DRY BREECHES.â â Cervantes
September is a magical time on the waters around the Wood River Valley. The days are getting shorter, the nights coo...
Villa Mañihuales, Región de Aysen, Chile The current season has been a special one, full of surprises and new friends in the middle of a pandemic that seems to have got attached to us and does not want to leave us....
RÃo Gallegos, Santa Cruz , Argentina What once was just a talk with my family is becoming a dream come true! "The Route of the Spring Creeks" is already beggining and definetively is a new program for people that visi...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States âI am haunted by waters.â â Norman Maclean
The first wave of true spring run off occurred during the first week of May causing the Big Wood to peak at nearly 7,000 CFS. ...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States âThis I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.â
â John Steinbeck
All good anglers seem to have a common...
United States Current Conditions
Spring runoff is subsiding on the Eagle and flows are dropping. We'll be floating the Eagle in the next couple of days! Flows are still on the high side for wade fishing but if you find ...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "Fishing is fundamentally a game of chance, and at heart we are all gamblers." - Dorothy Noyes Arms
Fly fishing is often rife with uncertainty, ambiguity, and misadventure. These are t...
Junin de los Andes , Patagonia, Argentina This is january of 2014 after a snow fall on the Andes. Jorge trucco is guiding Phis Olsson bu the Goat island's stretch. Phil catches 20+ great fish during the course of the day...
Ketchum, Idaho, United States "A year of snow, a year of plenty."
â French Proverb
The snow pack in the Big Wood drainage is currently at 172% of average and still has the potential to climb heading into spring....
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "Water is the driving force in nature." - Leonardo da Vinci
The current snow water equivalent for the Big Wood, Little Wood, and Big Lost rivers is at around 170% of average. Simple tr...
Vail, Colorado, United States
Report Date: February 8, 2015
Current Conditions
The upper Colorado from Pumphouse down to Dotsero is icy in spots but there is now plenty of open water and the fishing is picking up. Tr...
Grand Lake Stream, Maine, United States Late June fishing is strong in Grand Lake Stream. Most fish are in the upper river now, above Big Falls. Cable, Glide, Evening, Hatchery and Dam Pools are holding nice salmon and ...
Piedra del Aguila, Patagonia, Argentina Writer Adrian Latimer, on one of his exploratory trips on the Limay River. This time he was targeting migratory browns on sinking lines and big streamers. Over the years Adrian fo...