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Bear Creek (Greg McReynolds/For East Idaho Angler)

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Table of contentsBear Creek ........................................... 6

Idaho trespass laws........................... 10

Angler incentive program................ 13

Carp on the y................................... 16

The other Snake................................. 22

Winter on the Salt River..................... 24

Fishing trailer...................................... 26

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By Greg McReynoldsFor East Idaho Angler

Bear Creek is a perect early seasonadventure.

Tough the Southork tributar-ies like Rainey Creek and Palisades are olimits until July 1, Bear Creek, which emp-ties into Palisades Reservoir rom the west,

is open or the general season which beginsthis year on May 25.

Even getting there is an adventure.Heading north rom Idaho Falls along USHighway 26, drive through Swan Valley toBear Creek Road, which is perched atopPalisades Dam. Youll actually drive acrossthe top o the dam beore skirting the north

end o the reservoir or a ew miles to theBear Creek railhead. Along the way youllget some nice views, but watch out or oth-ers enjoying the view and coming the otherdirection as the road is narrow and wind-ing or its length. Most o the time the roadis tame, however wet weather can make ita little more dicult or low-clearance andtwo-wheel-drive vehicles.

From the parking area at the trailhead,hike upstream. And though the waterlooks very tempting, try to make yourselhike or a while beore starting to sh. Tearea near the trailhead gets a air amounto shing pressure and hiking urther up-stream can pay dividends both in sceneryand solitude as well as numbers o sh.

Hit the water early witha Bear Creek adventure

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A miles-long series o meadows makesBear Creek a beautiul place to hike andpicnic that also happens to contain a goodnumber o Snake River Cutthroat. Earlyin the season, you can nd bigger sh inBear Creek that havent yet made it backto Palisades Reservoir. Later in the sum-mer, youll nd mostly smaller resident

cutthroat that call Bear Creekhome year-round.

Bear Creek is not a techni-cal shery, so keep it simple. Aboxul o attractors, caddis anda ew beadhead nymphs willcover everything you need inthe way o ies. Plus, keeping your gear toa minimum will allow more room in yourpack or more important things like lunch,water, water, water, sunscreen, water andlunch. Did I mention beverages? And lunch?Because once youre on the water catchingsh, the last thing youre going to want to dois head back to the car. Spin shermen willdo well on Bear Creek, particularly with light

tackle and small spinners.While Bear Creek is not particularly

large, the meadows can demand some lon-ger casts and it can get windy in the aer-noon so dont go too light when choosinga y rod.

Last time I shed Bear Creek, I took a 2weight rod and later in the day regretted that

decision when the wind kicked up. Tis year,Ill stick with a 4 weight, 8 oot rod.

You will see others enjoying Bear Creek.Its a popular trail with horsemen and mo-torcyclists alike and the shing is not ex-actly a secret. However, there is plentyo space so i you see another angler, justmove up a meadow or two and youll ndplenty o water and plenty o sh too.n

Greg McReynolds/For East Idaho AnglerBear Creek affords shermen an early-season adventure. Previous page: A sherman takesadvantage of a warm day to get in some early shing on Bear Creek.

A miles-long series o meadows makesBear Creek a beautiul place to hike andpicnic that also happens to contain a

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By Gregg LosinskiFor East Idaho Angler

When it comes to enjoying the out-doors, Eastern Idaho is a great place,especial ly i youre an angler.

While warm water ishing opportu-nities are limited, its those same coldclean waters that allow us to have

some o the best trout ishing on theplanet.Beore heading out or a relaxing day

o either ishing or hunting with amilyand riends, its probably a good idea tobecome amiliar with some o Idahosunique trespass laws.

Some people think that any open

land thats not posted No respassingis air game to access or hiking, bik-ing, hunting, ishing or 4-wheeling, butunortunately its a bit more complicat-ed than that.

here are two basic categories oland, public and private. But the dis-tinctions are not always obvious.

Lets take a look at the somewhat

simpler o the two, public land. For themost part ederal and state lands areopen to the public or recreation, butmethods and times o use can be reg-ulated. Sometimes the regulations areposted, sometimes theyre not. It is al-ways best to check in advance with theland management agency that oversees

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a certain area to ind out about regu-lations.

For example, did you know that onthe Caribou-arghee National Forestall trails are closed to motorized useunless posted open? echnically, thatmeans i someone vandalizes a trail

by tearing down the markers at thetrailhead, they have rendered the trailclosed to whatever motorized use hadbeen permitted.

Other ederal areas such as Craters othe Moon National Monument, MenanButtes and Camas National WildlieReuge all have speciic use regulations.You would also expect state lands likeHarriman State Park o Idaho or Mar-ket Lake Wildlie Management Area tohave special use restrictions, but evenaccess to those township sections giv-en to the states (Originally sections 16and 36) and now managed by the IdahoDepartment o Lands have speciic userestrictions, even though they may just

appear to be another patch o orest.

he bottom line is that just because itis public land doesnt necessarily meanthe public has exclusive use o it.

Private land is no less conusing. Onland the rules are airly simple; no tres-pass means no trespass, as long as theland is posted properly.

In Idaho or land to be properly post-ed it must be posted at obvious accesspoints and every 660 eet using eitherNo respassing signs or 100 squareinches o luorescent orange. I metalpoles are used, they can also mean notrespassing, as long as the entire post ispainted luorescent orange and spacedaccordingly.

I land is agricultural or irrigatedpasture, then state code automatical-ly considers the ground posted, evenwithout signs or encing. By the way, itis also against Idaho Code to post pub-lic lands in such a manner as to makethem appear to be private lands, closedto trespass.

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simple. Stay in the boat or in the waterand youll be okay. I you venture ontothe bank or a gravel bar, be sure to staybelow the ordinary high water mark.

Unlike other states, Idaho generallydoes not consider water to be an exten-sion o the private land adjacent or be-

neath it, as long as the body o water isa navigable waterway. Granted, the dei-nition o what constitutes a navigablewaterway is a bit vague. All Idaho Codestates is that the water must be able toloat a 6 inch diameter log during naturalhigh-water conditions.

I you access water rom a public right-o-way or access site and stay in the wa-ter or below the ordinary high-watermark, you should be alright. It is legalor landowners to string encing acrossa waterway, but code states that ownersmust also allow or reasonable move-ment around enced sites and irrigationdiversions. Man-made structures such aslood control levies are oten considered

to be private property, but in situationswhere one side borders ederal lands theyare considered public or non-motorizedaccess, as long as entered lawully.

I you are hunting on public land andyour quarry is wounded and runs ontoprivate land; you still must seek permis-

sion rom the landowner to pursue andretrieve.

Also worthy o note is the act thatIdaho has both misdemeanor and el-ony violations related to trespass. Mostviolations all into the misdemeanor cat-egory, but even having the bullet romyou rile travel onto private land couldbe construed as elony trespassing undercertain circumstances.

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Some people still ish to catch a tastymeal, but catch-and-release has reallytaken hold with lots o anglers.

oday, many anglers sh purely or theun and relaxation that it provides and theSouth Fork o the Snake River has lots oopportunities or people to enjoy.

Aside rom the bass tournament types,most anglers dont look at shing as a wayto make money, but biologists at the Ida-ho Department o Fish & Game (IDFG)have come up with a plan to help bolster

native Yellowstone cutthroat trout popula-tions while providing anglers the chance tomake a ew dollars.

Why would IDFG pay people to catchsh? Rainbow trout were native to otherparts o Idaho, but were not historical-ly ound about Shoshone Falls near winFalls, Idaho.

Rainbow trout introduced into our por-tion o the South Fork o the Snake Riverhave proven to be a major threat to thesurvival and genetic integrity o our nativeYellowstone cutthroat trout because theyspawn at the same time and the rainbows

are genetically stronger. Te resulting hy-brid ospring are able to reproduce so thatsuccessive generations can become lessand less cutthroat.

IDFG has worked on a variety o meth-ods ranging rom regulation modiica-tions to electric barriers on spawningtributaries to help combat the takeoverby rainbow trout. In 2010, with the aid

o unding supplied by ederal sources,Biologist Brett High and his crew wereable to begin tagging rainbow trout withtiny coded wire tags, each tag having adierent cash value ranging rom $50 to$1,000. he tags were embedded in thesnout o the rainbows and can only bedetected i the ish head is taken to the

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regional IDFG oice to be scanned.Te strategy was to encourage anglers

to harvest as many rainbows as possible,High said.

Records indicate that total value o po-tential incentive tags placed in sh sincethe beginning o the program would have

been nearly $400,000, but that number isdeceptive says High.

Fish dont last all that long in a naturalriver system so the amount o carryoverrom year to year is pretty low, High said.

Records indicate since 2010, there havebeen 74 winners and the department haspaid $8,350 o incentive money.

Tis year the Department has picked upresponsibility or paying or incentives. Itis dicult to estimate how many taggedsh are still swimming around in the river,but according to High, Tere has got tostill be at least $150,000 worth o incen-tives still out there!

Because the overall goal o the SouthFork Angler Incentive Program is to en-

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By Greg McReynolds For East Idaho Angler

It started as a lark. Something to do when the

water was high and the trout were hidden inthe muddy waters o spring.Beore we knew it, the cow pasture near

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Youre damn right they are. As ma-ligned as carp have been, there arent manyother opportunities or those o us in theGem State to sight cast to 30-pound shwith a y rod.

And getting them to eat a y is nopicnic either.

Once you cast a y to a tailing sh andeel the slow pull on your line as a big carpinhales a y, then rockets away doubling an8-weight rod and reminding you what col-or your backing is, youll never eel quitethe same about carp.

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Previous page: Chris Hunt shes for carp onthe Snake River below American Falls Res-ervoir in Idaho, May 12, 2011. Right: A carpcaught on the Snake River below AmericanFalls Reservoir.

(Greg McReynolds/For East Idaho Angler)

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Carp confdentialFinding Carp: In the spring,

carp will congregate in placewhere deep water meets shal-low, broad mud or sand ats.Looks for areas averaging about2-feet-deep and pay close atten-tion to areas of grass or cattails.Carp are mostly cruisers in shal-

low water, moving along in smallgroups of sh particularly alongdened edges.

Youre more likely to nd themin the shallows on warm, sunnyspring days when the water isstarting to warm up. Good plac-es to nd carp are Blackfoot Res-ervoir and the lower Snake, but

they are pervasive, so be inven-tive when you look.

Flies for carp: Though thereis a serious amount of carpies, secret ies and carp ytrash talk, its much more about

presentation than ies. A box-ful of crawsh patterns, damselnymphs, and a selection of woo-ly buggers will catch most carpyou can see. It helps to have iesof varying weight so you can getthe y in front of the sh. Whencarp are tailing, youll need to

get the y down on the bottomquickly. When they are cruising,youll want a lighter bug so youcan make a more delicate pre-sentation. I tend to sh mostbugs, be they craysh patternsor damsel nymphs in green anddark brown.

Gear for carp: A reel witha good drag is your best friendwhen it comes to carp. These arebig, powerful sh with a lot ofstamina. They will give your reela work out. An 8-weight rod isnot overkill.

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And the secret is out. Hipsters,old guys and everyone in betweenare taking a crack at carp on the ly.

Youll see them, creeping likespot-and-stalk hunters across plac-

es no trout ishermen would botherto ply. A ew cast blindly, but mostsimply walk and watch, waiting orone good shot, one perect cast to acruising ish.

I you go and you should take a casual approach.

Laugh about it. Have a goodtime and joke about the ish.

It will make it easier when youget truly addicted.

A crack about carp will makeit easier when you ind yoursel

Chris Hunt displays acarp he caught on theSnake River below theAmerican Falls Reser-voir.(Greg McReynolds/

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By Greg McReynoldsFor East Idaho Angler

Strainers, islands, gravel rif-fles, giant brown trout, cutthroaton hoppers, side channels andrising fish.

It may sound familiar, but itsnot the South Fork. Its the SnakeRiver downstream of Idaho Falls.

The river can be finicky and

fish can be tough to find and ac-cess. The Snake can be a big river

and when flows are high early andmid-summer, its not easy to fish.

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he dry ly action can be great, cad-dis hatches in particular can be excel-lent on this part o the river, sometimesturning into clouds o bugs so thickthat ishing is pointless. Even with thepotential o bugs on the surace, thissection o the river is the streamerjunkies haven.

he deep runs, log jams, cut banksand slower bends o this section o theSnake just lend themselves to a doublebunny and a sink tip. Besides the layouto the water, swinging big lies downand across the current is a really pro-

ductive way to connect with the mon-ster rainbows and browns that moveup the river out o the American FallsReservoir.

When the water thins and clearsand the twilight stretches past bedtimeand into the night, you can look downand see the cobbles under your eetbeneath the cold, clear water. Caddis

come dancing and luttering across thesurace like tiny orbs o light lickeringon the riles.

his river, lined by industry andhouses and stretched between cities,can symbolize everything that it righ-teous and perect about the west.

And through the caddis, you casta streamer, throwing it out o the twi-light and into the darkness. You listenor the splash, then eel the ly swingacross the current and hit the danglewhile watching the stars emerge romthe blue-black sky o a late-summers

eve.I the stars align, you eel the slash-ing take o a big brown and tug o theish inding the current and runningdownstream.

Big ish oten lead us downstream,sometimes away rom the crowds andinto the heart o the Snake, a river be-tween two cities, within our grasp. n

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Braving winter cold in search o shBy Greg McReynolds

For East Idaho angler

Its too early, too cold, too snowy.

I should be home, warm and dry, notsearching or rising sh in an eort to

deny the continuation o winter.But the cool blue light o early spring is

reecting o o the snow banks that pitchsteeply down to the water o the Salt River

in western Wyoming.In the deep bends, the water is glassy, re-

ecting high, wispy clouds that in their iso-lation point toward spring. Te rife aheadspeaks soly, not breaking the snowy si-lence, but blending into it. White noise ina white world.

Where the water runs o the rife andthe oam line ebbs and ows, tiny midgepupa struggle against the surace tensiono the water, aching to break ree rom thecold depths o winter and take ight intothe clear blue sky.

A ew sh rise soly, barely making astir, as i they too are bound by the suracetension o the river.

I cast and watch a cutthroat ooze upward

through the water column. Outside this

winter space the slow-motion rise could bemistaken or apathy, but here it is merelythe exhibition o a biological imperative toconserve energy.

Te sh makes a rise ring with its dor-sal n a second aer sipping my midgepattern. I raise my rod and the lethargy isgone in a ash, replaced by a eisty SnakeRiver cutthroat that when brought to hand

seems garish against the stark background.He is calm again as he swims rom my

hand back to his lair under the oam line.My line urled and my day complete, I

stand and take it in. I know that this mo-ment o perection a collusion o soli-tude, silence and the clean white o winter will soon be replaced by colorul, bois-terous summer.

Te snow will melt into a carpet o deepgreen grass. Te bugs will multiply andthe sh will lose some o their inhibitions.Collectively, we will stretch and eat and beheard.

For now, we nd solace in the quietand the cold while beginning to struggleagainst the bounds o winter.n

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In todays hurry up world many o thethings that we used to take or granted arebeing lost.

Now everything is go, go, go, 24/7,Wi-Fi accessible. he simple things arebecoming more and more a memory or

those o us that once knew them. We areraising up a generation that is even bare-ly aware that the simple things even ex-isted in the irst place.

he interesting thing is that i you ex-pose kids to the simpler pleasures, likethe joy o getting outdoors and ishing,theyll generally be hooked, even i theynever catch a ish.

o help make shing more accessible toamilies (its already ree to all resident kidsunder 14) the Idaho Department o Fish& Game has created the ake Me Fishingrailer program. Te point o the programis basically to create a mobile ree shingday, complete with ree equipment and in-struction.

Not only can everyone who registers at the

trailer sh or ree with loaner equipment,but the trailer is staed with people able tohelp teach about baiting a hook, casting, andtaking care o your catch.

Te ake Me Fishing railers have beenaround or three years now and are a state-wide program based out o the major cities.Te Upper Snake Region and the Southeast

Region share a trailer, but there are loads oopportunities to go around.

Inormation about both local and stateevents can be ound at shandgame.idaho.gov.

Just like Free Fishing Day, the ake MeFishing program enables anyone who reg-isters to take part and sh or ree, evennon-residents.

I people have their own pole and tackle

thats great, i not they can check out a pole.Te trailers are also stocked with lotso hooks and bobbers or those beginnersstill getting the hang o things and plenty oworms are available, just or the asking.

O course all other rules and regulationsstill apply, so trailers stock plenty o shingregulations and other educational materials.

Te whole point o the trailers is to help

make that journey back to simpler times eas-ier and inexpensive.

By supplying everything it would take ora amily or someone who has never shedbeore to experience the sport easily, IDFGhopes to rekindle old angling interests orspark new ones.

Providing instruction is also importantbecause while many o todays adults may

have shed as children, they may have or-gotten all that was involved and are unableto introduce their own children to the joys othe outdoors.

Te ake Me Fishing railers have provento be a big hit with those who have utilizedthem and IDFG hopes to reach even morepeople this summer.n

Trailers make shing available to everyone

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June 8: Idaho Falls, Becker Pondat Ryder Park, Free FishingDay, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

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Ryder Park, 5-9 p.m.July 20: Victor, Trail Creek Pond, 9

a.m. - 1 p.m.July 22: Ririe, Blacktail at Ririe

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May 4 - Ducks Unlimited Blackfoot Dinner will be held at the Elks Lodge in

Blackfoot. Games, rafes and auctions to raise money for wetlands

conservation. Tickets are $40 each, or couples for $60. Seating is

limited contact Wes Rudolph - (208) 251-5811

May 11 - Ted Trueblood Chapter of Trout Unlimited Casting Competitionat Eagle Island State Park. The y casting tournament follows a for-

mat of a four-person team, golf tournament where the total team

score determines outcome. Check www.tedtruebloodtu.org for

more information

May 16 - Idaho Fish and Game Elk Management Planning meeting, 7-9

p.m. at Madison Middle School, 575 West Seventh South, Rexburg.

May 16 - Idaho Fish and Game Elk Management Planning meeting, 7-9

p.m. at Idaho Fish and Game Southeast Regional Ofce, 1345 Bar-

ton Road, Pocatello.

May 17-18 - Idaho Carp Classic Tournament held at Blackfoot Reservoir.

May 18 - Start looking for Salmon ies on the Henrys Fork

May 22 - Idaho Fish and Game Elk Management Planning meeting 7-9

p.m. at Idaho Fish and Game Upper Snake Regional Ofce, 4279

Commerce Circle, Idaho Falls

May 25 - Opening day of the general shing seasonJune 5 - Last day to apply for elk, deer, pronghorn, fall bear and fall tur-

key controlled hunts.

June 8 - Ducks Unlimited State Celebration will be held at the Hilton Gar-

den Inn from 6 to 11 p.m. Contact Mond Warren at (208) 869-5024

June 10 - Start looking for Green Drakes on Silver Creek

June 8 -Start looking for Yellow Sallies and Golden Stones on the South Fork

June 15 - Harriman State Park opener

July 1 - Opening day for Southfork of the Snake tributaries, time to shPalisades and Rainey Creek!

Aug. 1 - Opening day for Flat Creek on the Jackson Hole National Elk

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Aug. 23 - Upper Snake River Valley National Wild Turkey Federation Ban-

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Aug. 30 - First day of dusky and ruffed grouse hunting season.

Oct. 5-11 - Idaho youth pheasant hunting season. Open statewide for all

licensed hunters 15 years of age or younger. All youth hunters mustbe accompanied by an adult 18 years or older.

Oct. 31 - Last day of general season on Snake River below American

Falls Reservoir.

Nov. 1 - First day of catch and release only season below American Falls

Reservoir.

Nov. 30 - Last day of the general shing season

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By Chad ChorneyFor East Idaho Angler

rout Unlimited (U), along withpartners o the Portneu River Project Portneu Soil and Water ConservationDistrict, US Fish and Wildlie Service,

Idaho Department o Fish and Game, Ida-ho Department o Environmental Quality,Southeast Idaho Fly Fishers, City o Po-catello, and private landowners recentlycompleted a small but critical streamrestoration project on the Portneu Riverjust downstream rom opaz Landing.

Project partners worked on a quartermile section o river, reinorcing and

reshaping the river bank, armoring andprotecting a streamow gauge operatedby the USGS, planting native willowsand grasses, and installing exclusionaryencing to restrict livestock access romsensitive riparian areas. Rock barbs werealso added in key areas o the river chan-nel to redirect ow and prevent urther

bank erosion and wash-outs, protectinglandowner property and allowing the riverto unction in a natural manner.

U has been active in protecting,restoring, and reconnecting importanttributaries along the upper Portneu River.In 2012, U and partners (IDF&G, IDEQ,

US Forest Service, US Fish and WildlieService, the SEIFF, Portneu Soil andWater Conservation District, and privatelandowners) built more than 1,700 eet obuck-and-pole ence to protect riparianareas and restrict livestock access alongsensitive stream banks, and re-construct-ed more than 3,000 eet o stream channelon a previously straightened tributary.

Te newly constructed stream chan-nel presents a signicant amount o newhabitat or Yellowstone Cutthroat trout,and incorporates rifes, pools, stream me-anders and undercut banks. At the sametime, ranch operation was enhanced withthe addition o a new, o-site livestockwatering system.n

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