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2018

Mar 29 2018
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Know Your Guide: Jake Nelsen

By The Hatch
As soon as Jake could walk, his fishing boots were on and his pole was in his hand. He grew up on a river in Western Washington and the sight and sounds of low tide are some of his favorite fishing memories. When the King salmon would arrive in September, Jake and his cousins were at the edge of the…
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Mar 27 2018
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Remembering “Doc of The Drakes”

By The Hatch
We are sad to announce that on Saturday, March 17th, our beloved comrade Dr. Robert Franklin peacefully passed away among family in Austin, Texas.  To his angling friends and viewers of silly fishing films, the soft spoken white-haired Texas gentleman was known simply as the "Doc of the Drakes."  To the 28,000 patients he served over 50 years, Dr. Robert…
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Mar 22 2018
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Know Your Guide: Bob Knoebel

By The Hatch
Bob Knoebel is hard to miss here in Sun Valley. He has been an outstanding Silver Creek Outfitters guide for almost 13 seasons! However, let’s turn back the clock 40 years ago: Bob learns to fly fish in the Saugatuck River in Westport Connecticut. Eventually, the West draws him in, and he makes the move to beautiful Idaho. Fast forward…
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Mar 07 2018
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Fly Fishing Forecast 3/7 – 3/21

By Fishing Forecast
“There is a right time to ask for a raise, to propose marriage, to go cross-country skiing, and there is a right time to fish.” ~ Peter Kaminsky Good news…the snow water equivalent for the Wood River Basin went form 67% in January to 87% in March and there is more precipitation in the extended forecast. This bodes well for…
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Feb 06 2018
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Fishing Forecast 2/07 – 2/21

By Fishing Report
“Fly fishing surely gives meaning to my life, but not nearly so much as life gives meaning to fly fishing.” ~Peter Kaminsky It is February. The sun hangs in the sky a bit higher and longer; the alternating thaw and freeze is turning the snow to corn. There is a spring like awakening occurring within the river, the trout, and…
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Jan 24 2018
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Fishing Forecast 1/24 – 2/07

By Fishing Forecast
“The stream keeps me from getting lost, and anytime I feel like being a fisherman again, the trout are there, sages themselves, the wise roshi that caught me by the way and taught me to love wildness.” ~Christopher Camuto For those who have been hibernating, it is time to let February awaken the angler within. A wet weather pattern will continue to bring…
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Jan 10 2018
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Fishing Forecast 1/10 – 1/24

By Fishing Forecast
"A warm January, a cold May." -- Welsh Proverb To date, January has been warm, and what May will yield has yet to be seen. While proverbs portend general truths based on common experience, the weather has been everything but common of late. Another proverbial truth: the only certainty in forecasts is that they are uncertain. With the Big Wood…
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