A Lifetime of Adventures Story and Photos by Ray Brooks On a hot August day, Little Wood River was nicely cold, so I waded up its shallow waters to fly fish rather than brush-beating along the banks. Suddenly
Coming Back to the Country Story and Paintings by Phil Murdock I’m a steelheader and for the past twenty years I have hazarded the spring weather between Rexburg and the Salmon River. Each summer, the big fish work
The End of an Error By Ron McFarland Sometime in the 1980s, my fellow poet and friend Dennis Held, a Wisconsinite born to ice-fishing, introduced me to the frigid aspects of angling through the ice [see “Ice versus
Horror amid the Bridgestone Hatch Story and Photos by John O’Bryan The Saint Joe River, or the Joe, as it’s affectionately regarded, is a blue-ribbon freestone river (fed by snowmelt, not a spring) with aggressive westslope cutthroat trout
A Long-Ago Frenzy of Fishing By Rob Greenfield Photos courtesy of Rob Greenfield My twin brother Rick and I had no idea what to expect as we listened to Dad’s friend Jackson, the local mechanic, persuade him to
A Fly Fisherman’s Treat Story and Photos by Erik Moncada When the South Fork of the Boise River was running at a very low three hundred cubic feet per second during fishing season last July, it was a
Can This Be the End? Story and Photos by Mike Cothern On the way home from a five-day backpacking trip in central Idaho’s Bighorn Crags, I was only a mile from the campground where I had left my
A Catch of a Lifetime Story and Photos by Mark Mestaz In mid-morning, when the sun peeked over the mountaintops and began to warm the shimmering Clearwater River, I finally felt it: a quick, firm bump at the
Fly Fishing Kelly Creek Story and Photos by Ray Brooks The cutthroats in Kelly Creek were sipping nearly invisible winged ants off the water’s surface. It was a little breezy, which contributed to some of the most challenging
For Steelhead in Homewaters By Breland Draper Photos Courtesy of Breland Draper My son Charlie caught a fish on his first fly-fishing cast. To be honest, it may have been his second or third, but as he believes,
