04-30-2009, 08:20 PM
You will have several places to do a little fishing. To the east of Mt. Home you have the South Fork of the Boise, an excellent trophy (maybe not by your Alaska standards!!) trout fishery, Anderson Ranch Res., which can be productively bank-fished early in the season, but more typically is a bass/kokanee fishery, Little Camas Reservoir, good for float-tube, boat, or bank fishing for trout, and for a week-end you could head down the road a bit further to the world-famous Silver Creek, Big and Little Wood rivers, and the lunker-loaded Magic Res, good for bank, tube, or boat. To the west you have Crane Falls,Cove Arm, and C.J.Strike, good for most kinds of fish. Bank fishing is tough on these waters as a rule. The Sand Dunes park has a nice pond with bluegill, bass, etc. Further down the road you get into three reservoirs on the Duck Valley Indian Res, all excellent fishing, but too far for an afternoon. A bit further south of these is Wildhorse, south of the Idaho/Nev. border, another stellar fishery. North, about 40 miles, you have Lucky Peak and Arrowrock, great kokanee fisheries. Throw in the 1000 Springs/Hagerman area, and you can be kept busy exploring for some time. Welcome to this board and to Idaho!! Mike
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