Idaho Trout
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| A Brown from a lake caught by my brother in 2007 | Above: A Yellowstone Cutthroat caught in a lake outside the park. |
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Fine Spotted Snake River Cutthroats |
I found a fun spot lower on the South Fork of the
Snake. This water has a different
Native Cutthroat than the Yellowstone. They are called
"Fine Spotted Snake River
Cutthroats". They are
beautiful. But I told you earlier I
find all trout beautiful, didn't I.
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 Above is a nice Rainbow from the Lower South Fork Snake. He is posing on the tippet while I snap his portrait. See the natural on the water behind this fishes head? |
 Parachute winged Mayfly (above) |
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Left: Lower Snake River Fine Spotted Cutthroat
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 Below is a West Slope Cutthroat also caught in Idaho in 2007. |
| I ran into a place on the Lower Snake one year, where a riffle was alive with smallish, (9 to 11 inches) but very willing Cutts. I was standing at the bottom a 50 foot riffle and couldn't keep count the number of fish rising. There was a hatch of small Mayflies coming off, and these fish would hit anything even resembling the natural. There must have been 20 to 25 fish, any two or three of which were rising at the same moment! It was a dry fly fisherman's paradise. I set myself the challenge of catching and releasing as many fish from that riffle as I could. I started at the bottom and tried to pick off the fish nearest me, without letting the hooked fish run up into the rest of the feeding fish. I caught about a dozen, in this way, before I got to the top of the riffle! That's fish every two feet! I figure I caught about 1/2 of the fish feeding. I wore out 3 flies. What fun. I know I've had fun, when I get back into the van, and I'm about the same color inside, as the Snake River Cutts are on the outside... Golden and glowing. |
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| This river is best fished with a local who knows the ways of the water diversion folks who control the flows in all the large canals used for irrigation in central Idaho. The fisheries are subject to huge changes in flow when the summer season is over. That is also one of the times to catch the largest fish, as they are congregated in known areas. | |
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Small Stoneflies are very good Western river flies. |
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