Spring and Summer on the Water By David E. Metcalf I was about ten when I first went fly fishing. We traveled from our house, which was a short distance from the Snake River near Homedale, to the
In the Most Beautiful Place By Brody Barrus Every bend of the South Fork of the Snake River as it slithers and cuts through eastern Idaho bleeds beauty. Tall luscious cottonwoods tower over the river, providing a home
Land of Sudden Sightings By Linden Bateman Every March since 2016, the author has written a story for this magazine in honor of Idaho Day on March 4, for which he introduced the legislation in 2014 as an
And Tutelage on How to Eat Them By Glenn Theberge On our way to the crawdad hole at Malad Gorge years ago, my sons Aaron, Luke, and I encountered a strange man who blocked the path. He was
And Other Angling Adventures By Flip Kleffner The author grew up in Boise, where his father, Sib Kleffner, owned a sporting goods store. At the University of Idaho, Flip became student body president and later was inducted into
Is the Catch Worth It? By Jesse L. Ayers After an unpleasant fishing trip on a frozen Lake Cascade two years ago, I was of the opinion that ice fishing should be categorized as an extreme sport and
First You Catch Them, Barehanded By Jesse Ayers Grabbing a twenty-five-to-thirty-inch wild salmon by the tail is no easy task. Catching a Chinook with your bare hands is easy enough when it’s in a holding pond at a
By Dave Hall A slim, beautifully produced volume of paintings by the author, who lives part-time in Idaho, was published late last year. Moving Water: An Artist’s Reflections on Fly Fishing, Friendship, and Family (Blaine Creek Press, 2018)
When the Road Was Being Built By Max Jenkins We had just sat down for dinner in Grangeville one evening in 1950 when Dad casually asked, “Son, would you be interested in riding a pack mule down a
Once Rare, Now Returning By Mary Terra-Berns I was anxious to see what was in the net. The winch slowly spooled back rope and brought the hoop net up from the bottom of the river. Idaho Department of
