"They are where they are and they ain't where they ain’t." – Brett Wilson, SCO Fishing Guide With the dropping flows and the transformative impact of a high spring runoff, the rivers are new every day. Familiar runs have been changed and new buckets and channels have been carved and molded. The trout will instruct the angler where they are...

"It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale." – Annie Dillard Anglers know how to watch, wait, and be still. Patience is taught by...

"It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale." – Annie Dillard This would be a good week to take your father fishing to thank...

"It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale." – Annie Dillard Due to rapid snowmelt this May, runoff has peaked. At the moment, all...

"Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending." – Chico Xavier Ready to make a new ending? Then our Fly Fishing 101 Class is just the thing for you! Whether you need to start from the beginning or just need a refresher before getting back out on the water,...

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day." – A.A. Milne The snow is busy coming down from the mountain tops making the rivers flow fast and furious. Anglers know this: there is no hurry to get to the river. Let the run off play out. And when the water does recede, the playbook for...

"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...