South Fork Boise River, ID
Kafka & Heiden Hole
Outing Information
- Date
- Start/End Time
- 11:00am to 6:00pm
- Best Fishing Time
- 1:30pm to 3:30pm
- Rating
- Good
- Classification
- Public
- Water Temp
- 55.0°F
- Water Clarity
- Slightly Stained - 3' to 5' visibility
- Water Level
- 300cfs
- User
- Jason Hansen
Fish Caught
Rainbow Trout
| Caught | Avg Size | Pattern | Optional Fields |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19" | #18 Tan Elk Hair Caddis |
Fish Depth: < 1' Water Depth: 1' - 3' Water Type: shallow - maybe 5' off the bank Retrieve: dead drift Leader/Tippet: 5x |
| 1 | 17" | #18 Black Zebra Midge |
Fish Depth: 1' - 3' Water Depth: 1' - 3' Water Type: shallows near bank Retrieve: dead drift Leader/Tippet: 6x Notes: Zebra Midge dropper off caddis |
| 1 | 13" | #8 Yellow Chernobyl Hopper | |
| 3 | 16.33" |
Mountain Whitefish
| Caught | Avg Size | Pattern | Optional Fields |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 14" | #16 Tan Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear | |
| 10 | 14" |
Weather
| Skies | Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunny | X | X | |
| Precipitation | |||
| None | X | X | |
| Wind | |||
| None | X | X | |
| Very Light - <5 knots | X | X |
- Air Temp High/Low
- 70.0°F / 65.0°F
- Wind Direction
- -
- Weather Front
- -
- Barometer
- -
- Moon Phase
- 7% Full (Waxing crescent)
Other Patterns Tried
- #18 BWO Parachute Midge Emerger
- #16 Yellow Foamy
Hatches
- Cranefly Diptera
Insect Seining
No seining information for this outing.
Fishing Partners
Eric HeidenEric Kafka
Joe Kafka
Waypoints
SF Boise - Kafka & Heiden hole 43 19.797' lat, -115 30.479' lon Google MapsNotes
Joe and I arrived a bit late and Kafka and Heiden were just getting on the water. They had stopped at a campsite that had a nice long run go through it that was about 3'-4' deep in the center, then a couple feet deep up to the sides. At first it didn't look like there would be many fish in that run, so I walked downstream two holes to another nice, long run where there were occasional fish rising. After awhile I finally got it going nymphing and caught several whitefish but no trout. After trying a few different dry flies with no success I tied on a chernobyl ant with a BWO PME and caught a huge rise from a 13" rainbow. I didn't catch anything else on the surface and switched back to nymphs and started catching whitefish again.
I moved back up to the original hole and Kafka and Heiden were fishing the next hole up. Fish were occasionally rising and I switched to a #18 elk hair caddis with a #16 yellow humpy and had one on on the caddis from the middle of the riffle. I then got out and focused on fishing the first 10'-15' of water from the bank. I had a splash and a look on the caddis but no love for the humpy. I switched the humpy to a zebra midge nymph and had a fish on within a couple casts that quickly got off. A couple casts later I hooked a 17" rainbow that fought like I had foul-hooked it in the tail. Amazing fighter. After that I started fishing back upstream along the side and quickly had another fish on the nymph but he got off. I moved up a bit and then rose a huge 19" rainbow to the elk hair caddis. After that I fished for quite awhile with the dry/nymph combo and had no luck. On the other side of the run I hooked a fish on the dropper that got off, but that was it. It was good fishing there for half an hour but died off quickly.
Later on I went with a deep-nymph rig and fished the main part of the run about 50 yards downstream from the head of the run, and landed 2 large whitefish (one 18") and also a big sucker.
Deep nymphing worked fantastic for whitefish but not well at all for trout.
Heiden sight-fished for fish all day and landed 4 rainbows with a big of 22", all on a small BWO nymph. Eric caught a couple decent rainbows. Joe caught 1 brown and rose a few fish.