Fishing Forecast

"No winter lasts forever, no spring skips its turn." – Hal Borland The voice of life, being, and becoming is about to roar. Warm weather is in the forecast which should accelerate the melt, especially of the low altitude snow. In the Wood River drainage the current snow water equivalent is a tad over 200%. As stated in the previous…

Photo Credit: Bob Knoebel “They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming." – Hermann Hesse The voice of life, being, and becoming is about to roar. Warm weather is in the forecast which should accelerate the melt, especially of the…

Photo Credit: Bob Knoebel “There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know." – John Kenneth Galbraith And then there are the kind of forecasters who know they don’t know, but try anyway. Let’s start with what we do know. This winter has been relentless. It started cold and wet, stayed…

Photo Credit: Bob Knoebel “The season is ended. There was not enough of it; there never is." – Nick Lyons However, there are still opportunities to wet a line. You may just need to travel farther afield. Or you can begin to look forward to next season. With the current snow water equivalent at or above 140% of normal in…

Photo Credit: Bob Knoebel “To a river, as to any natural force, an obstruction is merely an opportunity. For the river's nature is to flow" – Wendell Berry Last week's avalanches in Hailey, which temporarily blocked flows on the Wood, served as a reminder of the power of nature and taught a lesson in persistence.  As temperatures rise and the…