South Fork Boise River, ID

Furthest downstream hole I usually fish

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Outing Information

Date: Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Start/End Time: 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Best Fishing Time: -
Rating: Fair

Classification: Public
Water Temp: 50.0°F
Water Clarity: Slightly Stained - 3' to 5' visibility
Water Level: -
User: Jason Hansen

Fish Caught

Rainbow Trout

Caught	Avg Size	Pattern	Optional Fields
2	8"	#10 Copper John w/ Rubber Legs	Notable Fish: 6", 10" Notes: Had another 5 fish over 12" on.
2	8"

Total: 2 fish Top Patterns: Copper John w/ Rubber Legs (2)

Weather

Skies	Afternoon	Evening
Sunny	X	X
Precipitation
None	X	X
Wind
None		X
Very Light - <5 knots		X
Light - 5 to 10 knots	X

Air Temp High/Low: 85.0°F / -
Wind Direction: -
Weather Front: -
Barometer: -
Moon Phase: 20% Full (Waxing crescent)

Other Patterns Tried

#8 Brown Kaufmann's Stone
#10 Orange Stimulator
#14 Gold Stonulator
#12 Green Deep Sparkle Pupa
#14 Green X-Caddis

Hatches

No hatch information for this outing.

Insect Seining

No seining information for this outing.

Fishing Partners

Karl Sloth

Waypoints

No waypoints were saved with this outing.

Notes

Karl and I had planned on fishing the area/islands between Cow Creek and Cayuse Creek but the river is pretty hard to fish from the bank through that area and Karl had Bryce, so wading was gonna be tough. We ended up driving down to the hole that we often fish. I walked downstream and fished upstream along the shore in 1-4' of water with an orange stimulator and an x-caddis dropper and got no rises. I saw no rises either. I switched the dropper to a deep sparkle pupa and got no hits. I then walked back to the main hole and fished the side currents of the whitewater with a brown Kauffman stone and a Stonulator dropper with no success. I switched the dropper to a golden-stone nymph? that I had and had two fish on in two casts, and both fish got off. The first was a small fish, but the second fish was good sized and snapped the fly off since I set the hook as I was starting my forward cast. I tied on a rubber-legged copper john dropper and worked my way upstream fishing pockets. I ended up getting quite a few hits and had 5 fish on in addition to landing 2. I was able to land the ones 10" or smaller but the larger ones, the hook pulled out. I had a solid hook set on a very nice fish, at least 16", but I could never pull him in with the current and he kept going downstream and I could only follow him so far. Eventually the hook pulled out with him as well. :(

All and all, not a bad evening - I had 5 good fish on - but frustrating because of the high current and not being able to really play any of the decent-sized fish in.

Hatch: saw caddis and pink alberts, nothing really hatching