Sawtooths After November Storm. Idaho (4 image pano)
Sawtooths & Passing Storm
Nikon D3S & Nikon afs 80-200 f2.8
Enjoying a Salmon River Hot Spring. The high temp was about 24 degrees in Stanley. About 4 to 5 new inches of snow yesterday in Stanley and 2" to 3" in Ketchum.
Great stuff on all of our water if you can stay warm enough. Water temp yesterday morning on the Salmon was a balmy 35 degrees. Two more days of the season left on the Big Wood River, then it's steelheading on the Salmon and trout on the Big Lost River. High temps are expected to hit 50 degrees by Thursday in Ketchum! If so, the dry fly fishing should be stellar...
"Sawtooths After A Storm"
I drove up to Stanley today and poked around looking for steelhead. There are fish in the upper river--Torrey's and upstream to Redfish-- but there does not appear to be that many from what I saw today. In about a week there should be substantially more fish in the upper river to make the trek to the Salmon River worthwhile. While the recent storm produced lots of rain at lower elevations, that was not the case at higher elevation. New snow on Titus was reported to be 14" with storm totals in the Sawtooths up to 30".
The above pano was taken handheld with the Nikon 50 1.8 lens.