Silver Creek Outfitters

“Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration.”   – Izaak Walton Come the season opener on May 23rd, if you plan to contemplate the rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements, please recreate responsibly. NOTE to non-resident anglers: The Idaho Department of Fish and…

“…fly tying is the next best thing to fishing; it is the sort of licking of the lips that eases a thirsty man in the desert.”   – Arthur Ransome The Wood, Creek, and South Fork are officially closed for the season to protect spawning rainbow trout until Memorial weekend. And with the Governor’s statewide “stay at home” order, travel to…

“As with a faint star in the night’s sky, one can better understand fishing’s allure by looking around it, off to the side, not right at it.”  – Holly Morris And at other times, fishing can become like a lodestar guiding us out of troubled waters. The Big Wood As you can imagine, with spring break, school closures, and the…

“Selectivity is a simple reflex pattern.” – Ernest Schweibert The trout, driven by instinct, will reflexively feed upon the dominant insect of the given season, the food source in which it has become accustomed to eating due to sheer abundance. And the angler, driven by custom, will select and utilize the same flies and techniques upon which they have had…

“More than half the time, a trout will refuse your fly not because the fly was wrong but because it was not behaving properly.” – Tom Rosenbauer Then there is that other half of the time when no matter how precise the presentation, how light the tippet, or how well-behaved the fly, the trout still refuse to be fooled. These…

“I fish because I love to; because I love the environs where fish are found, which are invariably beautiful…and, finally not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally important—and not nearly so much fun.” – Robert Traver Chief amid the concerns of anglers…

“I suspect that a sense of humor is the most valuable thing an angler can own.” –Jim Harrison If you are heading to the river this winter, there are several things an intrepid angler should not be without: layers upon layers, waders without leaks, and boots with studs. Check. A net and a flask, or a net that is a…

"Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or indeed one half our duties. The only safe and sensible plan is to make other things give way to the essentials, and the first of these is fly fishing.” ― Theodore GordonChoose your metaphor for time: it flies,…

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” ― Benjamin FranklinIn the new year, may your knots always be true, your presentations always drag free, and your boots always be wet. And above all, may you always fish with friends that compel you to be a better…

“The whole notion of fly-fishing would not be so romantic if the trout did not win, too.” – Mark RauschenbergerThere is more to fly fishing than wins and losses. It is the trout, the places trout live, and the people who pursue trout that make the notion of fly-fishing so romantic.  In the presence of so much mystery, beauty, and…