I haven't fished for a while, but life has been pretty great. I have been at home helping take care of our new son Cam. He was born on Dec. 18th in Soda Springs. Life brings us all great gifts and the birth of a new child is certainly at the top of the list. Hopefully, if I play my cards right I will have 3 fishing buddies in a few years. Tyler is now 5, Jay is 2 and Cam is two weeks old today.
The week before Cam was born I did make a trip to Black Canyon by myself and the fishing was less what I had hoped for. Pacificorp ran a series of whitewater releases through the canyon this year in order to provide recreation for a few (I don't really think they exist) white water experts looking for class five material. What it seems to have done is wash sediments from upstream into the canyon and wash out the bugs. I have tried to verify my hunch about the bugs with other anglers and many of them agree that insect life appears to be much less prolific. One angler that I visited with that has fished the canyon for 15 years claims that this has happened every time that they accomodated the mystery kayakers. According to the local experts numbers of fish and aquatic life can stay down for up to two years. This is a poor management choice by Idaho Department of Fish and Game and Pacificorp. It seems as though they don't understand where their bread is buttered.
