6-30 SS Fishing Idaho

Fishing Idaho’s rushing water, next. Tom Laird is a fly fishing expert and he has given me an account of his experiences so far this spring.  “You just not bad said all things considered, what does that mean? It just means I’m waiting for the weather to change up and the spring runoff to stop making the little streams look like big rivers. Is there any fishing at all? Well there is, a lot of the lakes are good because they have come around, but I haven’t had a chance to hit a lot of them yet.  I stopped at a reservoir up outside of Salmon recently and managed to catch a couple. Catch a couple of what? Oh rainbows. We were just using a bead headed nymph on light weight fly rods, we were just drifting them down the weed beds and picking up rainbows. What’s the long-term outlook for rivers and streams in Idaho? The long-term outlook I think is just like everybody else has said, as soon as the runoff is done the fishing season in Idaho is going to be as good as it has been in a long time. Once the water clears up and call down everything is going to be hungry and refreshed and ready to go. Where do you think the fish are hiding right now, what are they doing? I don’t know. If I was a fish I would find the deepest pool I could and look for the calmest part and just hang out. As cloudy as the water is,  what do they tell me, 95% of water trout eats is underwater and in other words when you are dry fly fishing you are looking for that 5% that are eating but when the water is dirty and rolling that fast it has to be harder to find food.