We met some friends in Ketchum, ID for a few days. Our camp was about 30 minutes out of town on a free spot in the National Forest. Caught a few small fish in the stream by camp.
If you head over the mountain, you can fish the Upper Big Lost. Strange flows, very low on the freestone but too high below the damn safely fish. Caught a few fish but had a great time in the high desert landscape.
No trip is compete without a couple of days fishing Silver Creek! I come here because it's beautiful and a great way to test my fly tying and angling skills. The first day I had many takes but couldn't land any of the fish. I was too quick on my hook sets, too hard on 6 and 7x, a bit unlucky but despite this, was one of my best mornings on the creek. I took a midday break to warm up, eat then exacted my revenge with some hoppers!
I had Only scheduled 1 day for Silver Creek but had to return since I had hooked numerous fish the day before in small flys (sz 22 and smaller Tricos, BWO, PMD's and xxx)
The next day was way busier than the prior day, 9 vehicles were parked when we arrived at 7:30. The trico hatch was starting around 8 and the fishing was fire from about 9-10:30. Long leaders were helpful and the fish did their part! Didn't land any monsters but landed 80% of my takes with the biggest on a size 22 trico spinner on 7x. It felt good to have a successful morning! My SO had many takes and managed to land one fish. If we had another day, I think she would have done much better.
We have now moved to camp and fish on the Henry's Fork. Here is a picture from last nights sunset. A few nights ago, we had a great evening watching satellites and shooting stars!
Almost forgot, we did head over to Sun Valley to watch the Symphony! Unfortunately, because of Covid, it was a series of short performances by the artists In their homes. Had a nice bottle of wine!