June 6th 1979 the Brown Drakes start hatching at point of the rocks on silver creek you fish all day with your friend without ONE other angler in sight wondering if you will be
lucky enough to have the whole place to yourself for three days without someone else stumbling upon this glorios event.
June 2021. Local state police are called to the intersection heading north at Picabo Idaho to direct traffic. News of the brown drake hatch has been published on 9065 blogs and
facebook pages in the state of Idaho creating a sprawl to the creek of Simms, Orvis, Sage, Winston and TU sticker covered trucks, suvs, subarus and volvos. 120 trout hero shot photo's are also published on facebook within the first two hours of the first brown drake emergance. One of these flat brimmed hat sports and his grip and grin photo recieved 100 likes within the first 42 minutes of the start of the hatch.
March 1 1979 Local fly fishing shop owner is asked if he has seen any Skwala activity on the ditch to the west this year and does not call the river by it's actual name.
March 1 2021 Local fly fishing shop owner finally snaps and writes on a chalk board the skwala's have started hatching on the Owyhee river after the 600th skawla and Owyhee river question of the day.By the way he does not know if the skawla hatch has started but the man wants to fish the South Fork the next day and decides it is a great way to divert 5000
sports in a different direction the next day and sell a shit ton of skawla flies at the same time.
July 1 1979. Customer walks into Streamside adventures in Boise Idaho and asks Ken if he has a 9 foot 6 weight rod he wants for a Henry's lake trip he is going on in a few weeks. Ken has a couple of options and rigs a reel for the customer to go try them out in the parking lot. Ken sells a nice rod and reel package along with some local favorite leech patterns for his trip and shares a few politicaly incorrect jokes about a gal in a wheel chair that would make CNN top stories in 2021.
July 1 2021. After spending 4 months on internet fly fishing blogs and facebook this fly fishing internet warrior walks into a local fly shop to see if they have one or two of his top 10 choices in stock. He asks the shop employee 18 questions about the weight of each of the rods he is interested before he even gets into the technical data questions. He leaves shop without purchasing shit but races home to write a review of his findings on his favorite fb page. He also throws out a few token questions about the 10 rods he is interested in to help prolong
his glory on the screen. For the record this tool has yet to purchase a new 6 weight but has recived 8000 responses and 12000 likes during his vast research.
September 1979. After fishing in leaky waders all summer this nearly broke high school kid stumbles upon his first pair of neoprene waders. Dang things are 80 bucks and they feel like you are climbing into a rubber but they look really warm and dry. With cold duck hunting season just around the corner he scrounges up the 50 dollars he was short and races back to the shop in hopes they are still there a week later. Scores on his first pair of neo's and they last him for 4 years with the help of some shoe goo. Tells all his friends they are the best invention since canned beer.
September 2021. After researching the net this sport finally decides on Simms G4Z waders for 849.95. He has only been fly fishing for a year since he moved up here from the land of all the pretty happy people down south but he feels he will be more relevant and accepted as a local expert by sporting these waders behind all his grip and grin photo's he posts weekly on facebook. He feels sad after spending 849.95 U S dollars on these waders when his like count on his ass hooked spawning browntrout does not go up. On happy note he uses 22 dollars in air miles earned by using his reward card on purchasing his waders for his trip back to Southern Cal for Christmas.
Aug 1 1979. After looking at a map of some backcountry lakes and trails two guys decide to take a week long back pack trip into the White Cloud mountains in Idaho. It ends up being an epic trip with 2 of the 3 lakes they humped into having some great fishing for big Cutts. One evening they watch deer, elk, moose and antoplope on a ridgeline at the same time. They see no other humans on the 8 day trek. Both will take the name of these lakes to their grave. No photos of the fish ever made social media.
Aug 1 2021. After reading five books on high mountain lakes in Idaho this sport decides to ask questions on the 15 fly fishing facebook pages he is on to narrow down his search. Responses pour in and he recieves a private message from this internet fly fishing expert who lives in So Cal about the Idaho lake he was interested in. Great message that even included some maps and photos of big fish. Internet advice ends up being a copy and paste fishing report off the deep web that is 20 years old as the lake froze solid 4 years prior and has been taken off the Idaho Fish and Game re stocking program. 14.5 mile round trip hike to get some cool sunset photo's of the highcountry and a cute photo of a pine marten is the end result of this years dream back paking trip. Sport sells all his fly fishing and back packing shit on ebay and takes up crossfit with his wife.
September 1 1979. Your sister drops you off at Glenwood bridge and you instruct her to pick you up at 7pm at Eagle bridge downstream. You wet wade and fish all day with some basic
nymph, streamer and even dry fly patterns. Long day but you end up landing a handfull of rainbows, whitefish, a couple of suckers and even a cool 16 inch brown. Only human you run into during the day is a bridge critter passed out on the river bank behind a pile of empty Billy Beer cans. After your sister takes you home you shower and run off to the drive in with your friends. Trying to score on some hot girls in the car parked next to you for the duration of the movie no mention of the day on the river even comes up.
September 1 2021 Dude spends 1 hour in traffic to drive 5 miles to get to his secret parking spot along the Boise river. After navigating around the busy parking area full of mountain bikers, skate boarders,joggers and other anglers and yes even a homeless begger whacked out on meth who happens to be the grandson of the 1979 Billy beer drinking bridge critter mentioned above he gears up. Walking to his secret run he looks like a Simms/LLBEAN poster child but changes it up a bit with a slightly tilted to the side flat brimmed trucker hat. A hasty first cast with his euro rigged bead head internet approved system he yanks a cookie cutter hatchery bow out on the first cast. Grip and grin selfie photos taken of every fish brought to hand.Dude ends up catching a handfull of bows,whitefish, couple of suckers and a 16 inch brown and figures that will be enough to make a great facebook post. Dude gets nervous that he wont get the pics posted before dinner so he sits in the parking lot and makes the post including a description of how he slayed all the fish.By the way he announces he collected the the 24 beer cans left on the bank by you guessed it the passed out Billy Beer drinking bridge critter back in 1979 but blames the spin gear anglers to get some "Way to GO" comments from his fb pals. He is so impressed with his Boise river skills he starts giving free advice and lessons on all his favorite facebook pages with the motive of gaining internet fly fishing glory with the 424,000 new residence that have sprawled into the area around the Boise river.
Wow, has fly fishing changed that much in the state of Idaho ? not really... BUT THE RAPIDLY INCREASING NUMBER OF ANGLERS ON THE WATER AND FLY FISHING INTERNET SELF WORSHIPNG DOUCHE TOOLS SURE HAS.
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