http://vimeo.com/43390013 The Nature Conservancy hosted a public meeting May 30th 2012 to present a tentative plan for a restoration project on the Kilpatrick Pond section of Silver Creek. The meeting presented an opportunity for the public to hear and discuss details of the plan as well as weigh in with questions and input. Silver Creek Outfitters was there and offers…
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I've never caught a really big trout. A few real dandies here and there have made their way into my net for a quick snapshot and release, but nothing even close to the absolute monsters we've seen from Silver Creek over the past few years. These fully mature fish are what dreams are made of. After all, the anticipation before…
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photo by Bryan Huskey With days pushing into the 90s, float tubing the Creek or wet wading the Wood is the best way to beat the heat. The fish are going to continue to feed during the most pleasant time of the day, which in August is early and late. The morning and evening hatches this time of year can…
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photo by Bryan Huskey The easy fishing of July is behind us and the more technical fishing of August has arrived. Really the fishing is still quite good on all our rivers and should remain so for the foreseeable future, but the fish have wised up and the bugs have shrunk. This means the angler needs to up his game.…
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photo by Bryan Huskey The last week of July promises to be a great week of fishing, but to assure success, anglers should be prepared for change. In our local freestones, the flows continue to drop to more wadable levels opening up more water to explore and spread the fishing pressure. Keep in mind that as the levels change, the…
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The Silver Creek Browns have been delivering continuously over the past few weeks, with both size and numbers. From the deeper troughs to the undercut banks to sipping dries in the shallow flats, the fishing could not be better. The sudden heat wave has put the bugs in an inconsistent mode, but find the right place at the right time…
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7th Annual Fly Fishing Film Festival & Product Fair As we enter the second half of July, the myriad of fishing opportunities continue to expand. The hardest thing about fishing right now is choosing where to go. Do you want to fish high mountain streams with big attractor patterns in pursuit of cutthroat trout? Or would you rather cast long…
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As the summer days begin to heat up, our local waters will begin to transition. Hatches like the Green Drake will begin to taper off on the local freestones and the Trico hatch will slowly begin to build to its peak in late July and early August on Silver Creek. The Big Wood, the Big Lost below Mackay Reservoir, and…
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It's been a little over a year since Dr. Robert Franklin "The Doc" and SCO fishing guide turned friend and companion Pete Wood shared their brown drake experience with us on film. http://vimeo.com/28285715 Life has taken the two of them many places since then. Doc has been to the Mississippi Delta after red fish, dove hunting in Argentina, Dartmouth for…
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Unlike the last years above average run off, this July the water is dropping fast giving anglers a lot of options for fishing on the Big Wood and its tributaries as well as the Copper Basin. The water is still high in places but look for more and more water to open up in the coming weeks. July is a…
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