East Oxbow Pano. Silver Creek, Idaho 2011
Silver Creek Drake Update:
Still cool here but the Spring-green is happening and so is the brown drake frenetic mindset. Catching the first night of the drake emergence is the best. First, there's the payoff after many hatchless nights. Sunsets are great, but giant prolific mayflies and hungry trout and a sunset is better... The first strong night is in no other words, amazing. The fish simply go nuts as they have not had this type of opportunity in a long time. The bloated stomach thing doesn't seem to start, understandably, until after the first or second massive meal. No, nothing to my knowledge has happened in the way of drakes yet, but those large acrobatic mayflies are on many of our minds. The above pano was taken last night, June 9th. Mosquitoes and prairie caddis signal to me the "imminence" of drakes and I have yet to witness either. Once we get either or both mosquitoes and prairie caddis--which is a large and erratic flying but IGNORED caddis-- we'll be close...
Oh, and the Lost...it's been knocked DOWN to 280 cfs...