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Not Quite a Sacred Monkey

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Fly-Tying Gone Rogue By John O’Bryan When my wife Kelly found me in the deepest recess of her closet unraveling her best sweater, a feather duster tucked under one of my arms and a fur-lined hat under the
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The Right Thing

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Not Always Easy By Ron McFarland In hopes that my favorite trout stream will not be as low and slow as I fear will be the case, I defy an unusually dry late summer and an early fall
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Our Trout

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The Stuff of Dreams By Gary Oberbillig Back in 1946 when I was nine years old, my stepfather, Austin Case, worked as a mechanic for a tractor company in Boise. He got a call to take a trip
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Up Little Wood River

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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
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Watercolor Stories

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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
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Almost Ice-Fishing

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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
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Saint Joe and the Swan

Posted on by John O'Bryan / 2 Comments

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
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Dagger Falls

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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
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Low Flow

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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
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Caught by the Crags

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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
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