Spring creeks are singularly beautiful, and Silver Creek in Idaho is no exception. The Silver Creek Preserve is managed by the Nature Conservancy. It's open to the public for a nominal five dollar daily donation. While fishing is the main draw, many folks come to bird watch, canoe, walk the trails and take in the scenery. It's also a photographers dream.
Silver Creek should be on the life list of any spring creek fisher. And, as a devotee of spring creeks, it's one that I'd wanted to visit. With a few days off, that fortuitously coincided with a favorable weather window, I made the drive and was rewarded with a couple of delightful nights of camping.
Daytime temperatures still touched into the eighties and warranted an afternoon break from fishing. The September nights were most comfortable and capped off with a moonlight serenade of distant bugling elk. A bull moose also included the Hayspur campground in his after dark wanderings.
I only spent two days on Sil…
Silver Creek should be on the life list of any spring creek fisher. And, as a devotee of spring creeks, it's one that I'd wanted to visit. With a few days off, that fortuitously coincided with a favorable weather window, I made the drive and was rewarded with a couple of delightful nights of camping.
Daytime temperatures still touched into the eighties and warranted an afternoon break from fishing. The September nights were most comfortable and capped off with a moonlight serenade of distant bugling elk. A bull moose also included the Hayspur campground in his after dark wanderings.
I only spent two days on Sil…