Boise River – Boise, Idaho

April 11-12, 2009 back to My Fishing Journal

A quick Easter weekend trip to Boise to be with family provided an opportunity to explore the area’s popular urban fishery between fits and starts working on a document for the office. I did a bit of research beforehand and found that the Boise River is popular to the point of dysfunction during the summer. It’s used for all forms of recreation. I found it to be delightfully quiet most of the time, though.

The urban joys were something, though. Where else can you find public parking for river access at a distillery?

Water

I hit three sections of the river over the two days. The first was at Eagle Road, the second at a hidden subdivision upstream, and the third behind the county fairgrounds. Intelligence retrieved indicated there were still steelhead plants to be found behind the fairgrounds. Unfortunately, I put off fishing their until the final evening and didn’t find the main channel of the river until near dark. It was a substantially larger piece of water than what I had been fishing before and well could have contained the beauties.

Fishing

The fishing. Ah, yes, the fishing. Well, there was a lot of casting going on. Other than a couple hits just above the beautiful house shown in a middle picture above, the casting wasn’t interrupted much by fish. The geese were tempting, but I successfully resisted the urge to try out a new form of “fly fishing”. The river looks healthy enough to support a fishery. They must get hit hard.

All in all, it was a relaxing way to spend an Easter weekend – in between 8 hour drives each direction.