South Fork Boise River, ID

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Outing Information

Date: Sunday, November 5th, 2006
Start/End Time: 10:00am to 3:00pm
Best Fishing Time: 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Rating: Good

Classification: Public
Water Temp: 49.0°F
Water Clarity: Slightly Stained - 3' to 5' visibility
Water Level: 300cfs?
User: Jason Hansen

Fish Caught

Rainbow Trout

Caught	Avg Size	Pattern
1	12"	#20 BWO Parachute BWO
2	10"	#20 BWO CDC Comparadun
1	8"	BWO CDC Comparadun
4	10"

Mountain Whitefish

Caught	Avg Size	Pattern	Optional Fields
4	14"
4	14"

Total: 8 fish Top Patterns: Unspecified (4) CDC Comparadun (3) Parachute BWO (1)

Weather

Skies	Morning	Afternoon
Cloudy	X	X
Precipitation
Rain - Light	X	X
Wind
None	X	X
Very Light - <5 knots	X	X

Air Temp High/Low: 55.0°F / 45.0°F
Wind Direction: -
Weather Front: -
Barometer: -
Moon Phase: 95% Full (Waxing gibbous)

Other Patterns Tried

#12 Black Woolly Bugger
#18 Adams
#20 Black Zebra Midge

Hatches

Blue-Winged Olive Ephemeroptera Baetis

Insect Seining

No seining information for this outing.

Fishing Partners

Karl Sloth
Zak Stroud

Waypoints

#041 - long, medium-deep run 43 21.247' lat, -115 32.254' lon Google Maps
SF Boise - Indian Point 43 21.064' lat, -115 32.017' lon Google Maps
SF Boise - Kafka & Heiden hole 43 19.797' lat, -115 30.479' lon Google Maps

Tides

No tide information was saved with this outing.

Notes

Zak and I started fishing at the Heiden & Kafka hole, downstream at the second run. There weren't any fish rising so I started nymphing and caught a couple whitefish but no trout. Real slow for the 1-2 hours we worked the run. As we were leaving I tried a woolly bugger with no luck.

Karl arrived as we were leaving and we went down to his cliff hole and slowly but surely started seeing more fish rise. Unfortunately people were fishing the head of the hole so Zak and I walked down a little ways and found a fantastic long run. Not much was rising at first, but after watching the water I started spotting lots of bigger fish plucking nymphs out of the drift. Within 15-30 minutes the fish were rising real consistently up and down the run. I caught 4 smallish rainbows from the hole, as did Zak, but did see a few real nice fish rise. I couldnt' get consistent rises on my flies - I think I needed smaller BWOs and also higher-floating flies.

At the end I switched to nymphs and had a big fish on, likely whitefish. I landed another whitefish on nymphs, and had no hits on a woolly bugger. Pretty selective fish.