At 12:52 PM 08/14/2001 -0700, you wrote:
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>Running out of time and unwilling to pay the $375 3/4 day rate for a
>Silver Creek guide, my last stab at catching an Idaho fish was more
>successful. I had just an hour and a half to try out the Big Wood again,
>but closer to the headwaters of the main fork below Galena Lodge.
>
>Although I was fishing at nearly 8000 feet, the low gradient of Big Wood
>makes it a sort of alpine spring creek, meandering across the valley
>floor. Stealthily approaching small pools and cutbanks through the brush,
>I was finally able to coax three fish to hand: one a fat 13 inch RB; the
>others 10-11 inches. Lost three more fish and donated several flies as an
>offering to the fish gods on the convenient brush altars.
>
>Thought maybe next trip I'd try skiing instead, but with much more of that
>sort of luck, I'd probably break my leg ;-)
>
>Kent Lufkin
Hi Kent
I hope I am reading too much into your comment on Silver Creek but why do
you need a guide?
I've tried the Big Wood around Ketchum several times. Never have figured
it out. I finally
gave up.
The Little Wood between Shoshone and Carey can be a real barn burner,
especially
earlier in the year. But that is serious snake country.
Jim Jones
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