03-14-2009, 08:31 PM
Hello all,
Making my first trip to Henrys this year with a family friend who lives out of Boise (his first trip as well). Neither of us fly fish, but are wishing about now that we did.
We debated it when we started planning this trip a few months ago, but decided with all the other expenses involved (I am coming out of N. California, please don't hold it against me 
), we would stick with our standard gear and try the Trolling/Bait/Lure methods as we are setup for that already.
Regardless, the first thing I did was order Bill's book online and have already read it from cover to cover. I have been doing some research over the last couple weeks (lurking these forums included) and reading this thread just got me all the more psyched.
My friend has a 12’ aluminum ‘’ with a 40hp outboard and we have reserved a camp site at Henrys State Park. We will be there for opening weekend and plan to stay for 8 nights/10 days. Please tell me that if I do my homework, that we have a great chance of landing some nice fish in that span of time. We plan to fish EVERY day, at least early morning and evening, with one or two day trips to Yellowstone as neither of us have been there either.
We plan to catch and release for the most part, but because we are staying for a little over a week, I’m sure we will want to enjoy a few over the fire. For this reason we plan to modify the gear to allow for maximum survival for the most part. Any tips in this regard would be very much appreciated!
As the OP already stated, thank you all very much for participating on these forums and giving us newbies some tips on Henrys!
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Making my first trip to Henrys this year with a family friend who lives out of Boise (his first trip as well). Neither of us fly fish, but are wishing about now that we did.
We debated it when we started planning this trip a few months ago, but decided with all the other expenses involved (I am coming out of N. California, please don't hold it against me ), we would stick with our standard gear and try the Trolling/Bait/Lure methods as we are setup for that already.Regardless, the first thing I did was order Bill's book online and have already read it from cover to cover. I have been doing some research over the last couple weeks (lurking these forums included) and reading this thread just got me all the more psyched.
My friend has a 12’ aluminum ‘’ with a 40hp outboard and we have reserved a camp site at Henrys State Park. We will be there for opening weekend and plan to stay for 8 nights/10 days. Please tell me that if I do my homework, that we have a great chance of landing some nice fish in that span of time. We plan to fish EVERY day, at least early morning and evening, with one or two day trips to Yellowstone as neither of us have been there either.
We plan to catch and release for the most part, but because we are staying for a little over a week, I’m sure we will want to enjoy a few over the fire. For this reason we plan to modify the gear to allow for maximum survival for the most part. Any tips in this regard would be very much appreciated!
As the OP already stated, thank you all very much for participating on these forums and giving us newbies some tips on Henrys!
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