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I'm headed out tomorrow but don't know which direction to go. I'm in Boise and can't decide between Shoup and Salmon or Riggins and Orofino. Fairly familiar with both areas. Just curious where y'all are catching fish. I'm a newby to the site. You have a great thing here. I wish I would have known about it sooner.
Anything you can tell me to help me make my decision would be appreciated.
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i would head down river to riggins the water is still warmer there and the fish are biting a bit better. it seems like the water is around 35 degrees around shoup and the fish arnt hitting well from what i have heard. but a couple warm days and that can all change. welcome to the site i look forward to hearing from your trip, be sure to take some pictures.
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Welcome to the board.
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welcome to the site.i fished from salmon all the way past shoupe into owl creek sunday and i only turned two fish the bite was very very slow and when you did get hit it was just a super fast light wack and if you wernt on your toes you had no chance of hooking into a fish i would head to riggins i know last weekend a group of 10 guys went up and they said they had 144 fish in three days
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I landed 12 last weekend around Shoup and lost 2 due to cheap hooks. There were some but not many people there. If I had a choice I would go up north but I have only fished it once.
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Sounds like it's going to be Riggins but I have a couple buddies that were suppose to be back from Shoup yesterday and still aren't back. That could mean a couple different things I guess but I'm hoping they got into 'em. I'll let y'all know. Thanks.
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i will say if you have never been to shoup to go and check that area out. its amazing country.
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shoup is amazing make sure you bring your camera if you head that way. fish or not its worth the drive.
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hey what was the water temp down there this last weekend? lookin like we are shooting for the day after thanks giving to run down just dont really want to fight the ice we are thinking about fishing till wed or so hope the slush and shelf ice holds out till the end of dec.
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early in the morning it was around 30 degrees there was a little slush ice in some holes but not bad.the ice is the least of my worries when i go in the cold its just hard to get a hit.
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the thing i have found is to move alot and hit them in the head.when it is cold .i just cant feel that tap with ice bouncing off my line.
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