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Jun 10 2020

Fly Fishing | Silver Creek Outfitters | June Fly Fishing Forecast

Fly Fishing Forecast
June 10-17

By Silver Creek Outfitters Fishing Forecast

“Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.” – Raymond Joseph Teller An outside observer of an angler may not see the skillful deception. The whys and the wherefores of fly selection, presentation, and approach are often too subtle to be perceived. The angler’s habits are honed by time and experience. Still,…

Jun 02 2020

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Fly Fishing | Silver Creek Outfitters | Fly Fishing Forecast

Fly Fishing Forecast
June 3 – 10

By Silver Creek Outfitters Fishing Forecast

“As the temperature begins to cool and the sun gradually loses intensity, the dance begins. Gracefully rising and dipping over streamside vegetation, the big mayfly spinners signal the beginning of a fly-fishing drama that will be played out past sunset, and on some occasions well into darkness. – Rene Harrop The dance of the Brown Drakes on the lower Creek…

May 26 2020

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Silver Creek | Fly Fishing Guide | July 13

Fly Fishing Forecast
May 27 – June 3

By Silver Creek Outfitters Fishing Forecast

“Almost always, the people who say, ‘I am going to keep going until this works, and no matter what the challenges are I’m going to figure them out’, and mean it, go on to succeed. They are persistent long enough to give themselves a chance for luck to go their way.” – Sam Altman It is the “figuring them out”…

May 15 2020

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Self-Quarantine Ends – Nonresident License Sales Resume

By Silver Creek Outfitters Fishing Forecast

UPDATE! Self-Quarantine Ends - Nonresident License Sales Resume The Idaho Fish and Game Commission approved resuming sales of nonresident licenses starting Saturday, May 16th at 10:00 am. Governor Little also announced that the 14-day self-quarantine for people entering Idaho will be suspended. Commissioners stopped the sale of nonresident licenses in April in support of the “stay-at-home” order in Idaho and…

May 13 2020

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Fly Fishing Forecast
May 13

By Silver Creek Outfitters Fishing Forecast

“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…

Apr 01 2020

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Fly Fishing Forecast
April 1 – 30

By Silver Creek Outfitters Fishing Forecast

“…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…

Mar 17 2020

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Fly Fishing Forecast
March 18– April 1

By Silver Creek Outfitters Fishing Forecast

“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…

Mar 03 2020

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Silver Creek Outfitters | Fly Fishing | Sun Valley Idaho

Fly Fishing Forecast
March 4 – 18

By Silver Creek Outfitters Fishing Forecast

“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…

Feb 18 2020

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Fly Fishing Forecast
February 19 – March 4

By Silver Creek Outfitters Fishing Forecast

“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…

Feb 04 2020

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Fly Fishing Forecast
February 5 — 19

By Silver Creek Outfitters Fishing Forecast

“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…

Jan 21 2025

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