Bitch Creek!

Two weeks ago I tied 100 flies.... nymphs, drys, and streamers of all variety. Last week I fished a variety of different water in Idaho and loved every moment. I fished the famous box canyon and had little to no success. I saw lots of fisherman floating and wadding as I was but I saw no one catch a single fish. I had heard of Bitch Creek and thought I would try it out. I have heard it was a bear to get to since that is where the name came from. However, I was pleasantly surprised when I pulled of the highway just north of Felt Idaho. I walked about 200 feet and was in the water ready to cast into the most beautiful water. I had a hopper dropper with a 16 prince and threw one of my first casts into an amazing hole. BAAAM! Huge fish 17 to 18 incher. After about an hour of hitting my prince they started hitting my hopper imitation which I would have thought no fish would have gone for because it was rather large and only there to make my dropper easy to see. Boy was I wrong. They were going for both and I was having the time of my life. In one of the pictures you can see some hoppers that look pretty darn close to my large fly. I took some pretty sweet pictures and it would have been even cooler to have one of you boys with me. As the sun was going down I was getting close to turning around. I was in my chacos and I slipped on the rocks, tried to catch my self and after about 10 flailing steps went down. It would have been awesome to catch on video. I saw my fly box come out of my vest and caught it before it went down the river. Close call. I was done for the day and headed back to the car and fished some of the big holes I just couldn't pass up. There was a pretty deep hole right below a bridge and at that point had one of my favorite caddis fly's size 14. Earlier they were going for my nymph and I knew there was a beast in there. I cast the fly and it couldn't have been in a better spot. It sat in the rolling water for about 6 seconds and out of the blue the beast rose from beneath. I jumped with joy as I worked him closer to me with rod bent in half. I pulled him in and knew he was picture worthy. I reached for my camera........ Gone! I was devastated. I put my rod down close to the bridge and ran back to where I thought I slipped and fell. There was the camera sitting in 3 feet of water and had been there for at least 30 to 45 minutes. At least I had the SD card with the many pictures from that day. That was Friday. I just checked my camera and turned it on to see if by any chance it would work knowing it was fried.... It works perfectly. I love my Canon SD1000. I am shocked it still works after sitting for so long in the water considering Ben you dropped yours in the water and pulled it out immediately and it was toast. I will be back to Bitch Creek and this is an invitation to any of you peeps who want to fish it. I caught at least three to four 18 to 19 inch cuts, and a rainbow that was pretty good size. It was by far one of my favorite days on the water.