A complete revision of the best-selling guidebook, including new waters
This comprehensive guidebook covers all major Idaho rivers, including
the Henry's Fork and Island Park Reservoir, Teton, South Fork of the Snake,
Big Wood and Little Wood, Silver Creek, Salmon, Boise, Payette, Clearwater,
St. Joe's, Lochsa, Selway and more. A detailed, easy to read text also
addresses the popular gamefish with descriptions of each, including: cutthroat,
rainbow, brown and brook trout, steelhead, smallmouth and largemouth trout.
Whether chasing steelhead in Hell's Canyon or panfish in one of the
state's many reservoirs, Fishing Idaho will help you find the right
place to dip your line. Dividing the state into regions--complete with
maps and area information (camping, docks, boat ramps, etc.)--this is a
useful guide for plunkers, spin casters, and fly-fishers alike. Major (as
well as out-of-the-way) lakes and streams are covered, as are the author's
suggestions for best bets and catch-and-release areas. Whether you live
in Idaho or just plan to fish there, Fishing Idaho is a valuable
resource for the state's vast angling opportunities.
Idaho's
Best Fishing Waters by Inc. Wilderness Adventures Press
Paperback from Wilderness Adventures Press ISBN: 1932098585
The 6th book in our Best Fishing Waters series has 167 detailed full-color
maps of 26 of Idaho's finest fishing waters. This is the most comprehensive
book of angling maps ever created for Idaho's rivers, streams, and lakes.
Each 8-1/2 x 11 map shows all the access sites with GPS coordinates, along
with boat ramps, campgrounds, roads, trails, rapids, dams, tributaries,
and a wealth of other useful information. Each water starts with an overview
map. Then the water is covered with a number of detailed maps. For example,
the Henry's Fork of the Snake River has an overview map and eight detailed
maps, for a total of nine maps. The Clearwater River has a total of ten
maps. The waters include, Big Lost River, Big and Little Wood Rivers, Boise,
Clearwater, Coeur d Alene, Fort Hall bottoms, Kelly Creek, Kootenai, Lochsa,
Payette, Salmon, Selway, Silver Creek, South Fork of the Boise, St. Joe,
and the Teton River. Public land is clearly identified in color, and every
possible access or state lease is easy to find with just a glance.
The first edition of Fishing Idaho, An Angler's Guide, was the first
book of its kind to catalog so many fishing waters (and some non-fishing)
in the state of Idaho, though it was definitely not a catalog. The first
thousand copies of the book sold-out in a month in the mid 1990s. The book
has been out of print for more than a year and Evancho worked hard to get
the second edition ready by second week of December 2004.
The first edition contained more than 200 pages of fishing information
about Idaho's rivers, stream, lakes and reservoirs and took two years to
compile. It was written for everyone from worm dunkers to fly casters,
beginners to veterans, for winter and summer.
The second editions contains the same, though updated, type of information,
plus three additional chapters and new backcountry fly-in fishing information.
With approximately 260 pages, the new chapters cover Native Lands, high
mountain lakes and a thorough, albeit brief, section on fishing Yellowstone
National Park.
In the Native Lands chapter, Evancho shows that Fort Hall and the Duck
Valley reservations have some of the finest fishing around and that the
Nez Perce and Coeur d'Alene tribes manage their fisheries with great pride
and care. Each of the reservations has specific regulations of which angler's
should be aware.
High-mountain lakes are an important part of Idaho's fishing heritage,
but not a lot has been written about them. Fly-in (backcountry/wilderness)
fishing can be as dangerous as it is fun. Because of the influx of new
pilots working the backcountry, many inexperienced pilots are going where
experienced pilots fear to go. This chapter goes on to explain some of
the common sense aspects of backcountry flying as well as the water that
is available. The section is also a prelude to Evancho's next book, Idaho
High Mountain Lakes, to be published in the spring of 2005
And because a small portion of Yellowstone National Park is in Idaho,
a brief overview of the park is included as well as comments on several
of its better-known waters.
Fed by the purest water from a natural spring near Sun Valley Idaho,
Silver Creek has become a destination for the serious fly fisherman or
woman that wants to try his or her skill against the wiliest of trout in
a region as beautiful as it is challenging.
A beautifully illustrated, all-color treatment of Idaho's best sport
fishing for everything from trout and steelhead to walleye and sturgeon.
Best areas described as well as all types of tackle from flies to lures.
Scores of colorful, instructive illustrations. Idaho features much of the
finest fishing in the U.S. and this book will help you find it! 8 1/2 x
11 inches. Watercolors by Patrick Davis.
This is a useful introduction to fishing Idaho waters for a variety
of game fish. Each species receives a narrative description plus suggested
tackle and fishing areas.
Idaho fly-tyers are innovators by necessity. This mostly rural state,
with large areas of designated wilderness, is not the sort of place where
anglers can always run around the corner to pick up a few hot flies at
the local shop. It makes sense, then, that there's a guidebook devoted
solely to a state with a wide variety of fly-fishing opportunities and
a renowned history of fly-tying. Thomas gives a brief overview of a tradition
that dates back to 1901 when Carter Harrison created the Trude as a joke
(a joke that caught on big), then launches into an alphabetical who's who
of the many varied patterns that have evolved over the course of a century.
While eschewing step-by-step tying instructions, he details requisite materials
and includes a few notes about the history of each fly and its proper usage.
Some flies, like Kaufmann's Stimulator, while not developed specifically
for Idaho waters, are included because of their popularity. Final chapters
cover in brief selected Idaho fly-fishing waters and key flies.
Maps and fishing information for the best Idaho rivers. Included for
each river are the best seasons, species, available illustrated fishing
methods (both fly and gear), best flies and best gear for individual rivers
and species, fly hatches, knots, launches, parks, number of hookups per
year, size of runs, parks, services, guides.
Guide
to Fly Fishing in Idaho by Bill Mason, David Banks, Kaushik
Paperback: 48 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.22 x
10.90 x 8.47 Publisher: David Communications; ISBN: 0963725610
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