Perfect Fall Fly Fishing: Camping deep in the mountains of Idaho // Ep. 2

On day 2 we drove deep into the alpine mountains with hope of Bull trout. Though we didn't find any, we did get to refine our hopper dropper game and get big cutts on foam dry flies. It was my favorite day of fishing, ever!
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[@avid.venture]

Loved it. What a great river with gin water and dry fly eats. Awesome

[@driftstone]

Those dry fly eats never get old!

[@avid.venture]

@@driftstone nope never

[@BlueLinerMedia]

Looked like an amazing trip! Awesome video!

[@driftstone]

Thanks! It was a magical trip, loved fishing there!

[@colbymyers6278]

That’s some good looking water

[@driftstone]

It was pretty epic, I really enjoyed this small trib a lot. I would seek out more like it in the future.

[@mattsflytying2816]

This video makes me home sick the stream did not disappoint great video

[@driftstone]

Thanks Matt, the fishing up there really is special.

[@daveschlom4033]

Loved watching the dry fly takes. Idaho is so very different from our mostly rainbow fisheries here in NorCal. The gin clear water and eager Cutthroat trout were fun to watch. Glad you had a good time. And happy to have you as my go to fly tier!

[@driftstone]

It really is so much different. I've never caught fish that big on dries in California. Maybe I should try more :D

[@TroutFlies]

Man this trip looked like one awesome time. Love cutts on dries.

[@driftstone]

It really was and I too am a fan of cutts on dries :P

[@FlyfishingIdaho317]

Amazing! I live in idaho and love to fly fish too, what river is this? It looks amazing!

[@JohnSchneidersWildLife]

That looks like it could be heaven! Wow.

[@driftstone]

haha, it nearly was :D
I hope you're doing well settling in with life's new adventure

[@JohnSchneidersWildLife]

@@driftstone absolutely. We’ll be back at the boat for the month of December, until early Jan. Then back in Alberta for a few weeks. A bit of a transition to living there full-time.

[@RosinFlyFishing]

Absolute banger video Eric 🎉🎉🎉

[@driftstone]

Thanks homie, thank for watching!

[@FreeFormFlyFisher]

Incredible work Eric. 👍🏾👍🏾

[@driftstone]

Thanks Bro, Idaho doesn't suck, so that helps :D

[@markfischer1012]

I like the fish whisper technique.

[@driftstone]

haha what do you mean?

[@robertvanrensburg2417]

focus

[@driftstone]

On?