East Idaho Fly Fishing Expo

Friday and Saturday was the East Idaho Fly Tying Expo in Idaho Falls attended by hundreds, if not thousands of people, over the two days. Today was the East Idaho Fly Fishing Expo at Birch Creek, attended by REE and VEE and me. There was one other car at an access on Birch Creek, but we never saw the person who parked it there.

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After showing a prime stretch of water to Ron and Vickie, pointing out places that normally give up some fishies, I headed on downstream to explore some new water, leaving Ron and Vickie to fish however they wanted.

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Ron caught onto Birch Creek pretty quickly. He did observe later how differently it fished compared to the kind of water he normally fishes.

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Vickie was a little rusty and took a bit longer to get up a head of steam. With a bit of coaching, she ended with a flurry. After catching a good number over the first four hours on a variety of flies, fishing a variation of one of my favorite flies, she raised four trouts in one hole and ended up with the bow above in one of the toughest holes on Birch Creek in the last thirty minutes.

For some more pics of REE and VEE on Birch Creek, click on the photo.

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I really enjoyed spending the day with Ron and Vickie and showing off our Central Mountains, complete with great weather, bunches of pronghorn antelope, fourteen or fifteen Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep, and a bucketfull of bows and brookies for each of them.

Thanks, guys, for a great day. We'll do it again next April when you come over to TIE at the Expo.

John

Great photos John. Sounds like you had a good time. It appears in one of the pics, that REE found my favorite bush. Did he find any of my flies?;)
It probably won't be long before everything is blown out, so it was good to go before that happens. Catch you on the Reports.

John;

Thanks for taking us with you, REE, and VEE. Great pics and always nice reports. Happy that you all had good weather.
Nice having pics to put with screen names

As you can plainly see the scenery was inspiring, the wildlife abundant, and the trouts plentiful, not to mention a gracious host and guide. We had a great time on Birch Creek though my arms are tired from bringing in so many fine fishies. I was reminded that those beautiful rainbows fight differently than our normal beautiful cutthroats.

We had a grand time. Thanks again, John.