flyguy
Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!
learning to fish wrote:
Learning to fish Idaho.
Welcome to the Forum. Good luck!
Welcome. We have quite a few Idahoians on this forum. Hopefully we can share trips and tips with each other. I’m in Star. Where are you located?
Caldwell. Idaho fishing seems to be limited by bank access and thousands and thousands of part timers who use those few spots. then of course there's the one family on every campground whose kids jump into the fishing spot to swim. Good fishing spots are a long drive. Costs me $60 just to drive to CJ(thanks joe), which I find prohibitive. How do you do it? Lake Lowell is polluted. The river banks are choked with cattails and cottonwood.
Any coaching for Payette Lake
Going to McCall in August and would like to fly fish. Any recommendations?
I don't have good fly fishing advice. I might start by paying to consult a guide.
Mustang 19 wrote:
Welcome. We have quite a few Idahoians on this forum. Hopefully we can share trips and tips with each other. I’m in Star. Where are you located?
I am going to McCall. I will be driving from Boise.
Welcome to the stage learning good luck on the fishing and share pictures when you can. Some of the best fishing is through the week when other people are at work or at home😁👍
My experience is fishing Lucky Peak and ANDERSON Ranch, and CJ Strike for Kokanee Salmon. Fishing the Snake River upstream of CJ Strike for Sturgeon. On my todo list is Cour D Alene and Pend Orielle for Chinook and Kokanee this August and September. My immediate targets are Chinook on Lucky Peak and Sturgeon on the Snake River. Being recently retired, I only fish during the week, saving the weekends for the working guys/gals.
Mustang 19 wrote:
My experience is fishing Lucky Peak and ANDERSON Ranch, and CJ Strike for Kokanee Salmon. Fishing the Snake River upstream of CJ Strike for Sturgeon. On my todo list is Cour D Alene and Pend Orielle for Chinook and Kokanee this August and September. My immediate targets are Chinook on Lucky Peak and Sturgeon on the Snake River. Being recently retired, I only fish during the week, saving the weekends for the working guys/gals.
I like your program Mustang. I've been on leave 18 months and learning to fish. I don't have a boat and fish the bank accept when invited aboard. I've learned a lot. I also avoided all weekends. But, it looks like I'm going back to work. I'm not very spendy so I don't do sturgeon, don't like catfish so I don't put much effort there. I DO like to try to bring home 20 pounds on every trip because of the cost of driving.
I've done that a lot but it cost me hundreds of hours of instruction and study. I also spent about $2200 on tackle this past year.
I'm a good co-angler I think and good crew on a boat. Caught 5 LM Bass this am at Lowell from 1-4 pounds in 2 hours. Threw em back.
Probly caught close to 250 pounds of trout this past winter from the bank, in wind rain and snow, and about 125 pounds of crappie from the bank this spring. I'm learning.
At Anderson ranch last summer I caught my first crankbait fish. Darn nice water there. And quiet.
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