March was certainly a very productive month on local waters.<\/p>\n
On Silver Creek, fishing remains open downstream of the Highway 20 Bridge for the entirety of the year. Remember that the Nature Conservancy Silver Creek Preserve remains closed to fishing until the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, and that Kilpatrick Pond will be closed to fishing on April 1st<\/sup>. There has been exceptionally good BWO activity on recent days, along with very good midge activity. Fish your favorite BWO dun and emerger imitations in sizes 18 \u2013 22 on long 5x \u2013 6x leaders (12 feet plus) and hit the Creek to do some head hunting. As always, leeches produce fish when there is no action top.<\/p>\n The lower Big Lost River below Mackay Reservoir remains open all year, and with current flows (about 70 CFS) the fishing will remain productive. BWOs are hatching daily, and fish are eagerly eating small BWO nymphs and midge imitations. Please watch out for spawning rainbows and avoid spawning redds (oval, \u201cclean\u201d gravel depressions on the stream bed). \u00a0Also, the river will see increased angler traffic this month, so please be courteous and respectful of other anglers and landowners.<\/p>\n The Upper Salmon River will remain open for Steelhead fishing until the end of April, although recent warm weather has caused the river level to rise and become off-color. With cooler weather predicted, the river could come back into fishable shape for a bit.<\/p>\n The Big Wood River and South Fork Boise River are also closed to fishing from April 1st<\/sup> until the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend.<\/p>\n Keep an eye on weather and river flows, as this time of year conditions can change rapidly. Idaho river levels can be found on the USGS website.<\/p>\n Happy Fishing Everyone!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March was certainly a very productive month on local waters. On Silver Creek, fishing remains open downstream of the Highway 20 Bridge for the entirety of the year. Remember that the Nature Conservancy Silver Creek Preserve remains closed to fishing until the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, and that Kilpatrick Pond will be closed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-fishing","7":"category-sponsored"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23165,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23164\/revisions\/23165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}