How has the fishing been at Henry's and Island Park? I am headed that way later this week for a nostalgic fishing trip that I am way excited for. Those two places, along with my wife's grandfather who has since passed on, really got me back into fishing after moving from Alaska about 20 years ago. I was a senior in high school and had grown up 3 miles from a river with major salmon runs and had a lake in my backyard with wild trout. I remember after moving to Idaho and catching a little 8" planter trout going into a fishing depression of sorts. Fishing Henrys and IP changed all that and got the fishing blood flowing again. We have since moved from Eastern Idaho and it has been quite a while since we have been up there.
I have read back through lots of posts about both fisheries from some folks like curt69 and cant wait to get up there!
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I caught 9 last friday on Island Park Res . Most people are trolling . We caught them sitting still with marshmallows and nightcrawlers .
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That is terrific Curt! Thanks for the heads up. A worm and a marshmallow are what we generally used with my wife's grandfather. We will definitely be doing some of that mixed in with casting some spinners. Hope to have a good report on our return. Thanks again.
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Had a great couple of days at Island Park Fishing both the reservoir and Henrys Lake. The fishing was a little slow for us and most others we talked to. Fly fisherman seemed to be doing better at Henrys. We drowned worms, trolled, and cast spinners. I attched a couple pics from the trip. Cant wait to get back hopefully in between archery elk and the deer hunt this fall.
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I'll bet that moose put up a hard fight.
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I thought that moose would prefer a willow pattern but they seemed to prefer tender young quackies. It was pretty cool to see them. Momma must have chased them away to raise her new calf.
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I was right there with both those moose and one of them was branded on his hind quarters. Maybe the rancher decided moose was better than cattle [
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