Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experts regard Silver Creek as the finest dry-fly stream in the U.S. It rises from a maze of flowing springs and meanders 22 miles across a meadow south of the Sawtooth Mountains. Its rainbows grow so big (up to a record twelve pounds) because of an abundance of freshwater shrimp for them to feed on. Its channels are clear and shallow; a shadow cast across the water is enough warning for its wary rainbows...
...rainbow trout in Idaho's famed Silver Creek* are big, tough and smart. On still days, under bright sunlight, nothing can lure them up. It is best to wait until a cloud blots out the sun and a breeze ruffles the mirror-like surface. Then the trick is to hang on to the savage rainbows once you've hooked them...
Last week, the morning the season opened at Silver Creek, the weather was just right. Oldtimer Art Wood, a guide from Sun Valley, grinned as he stalked through some willows to his pet spot. After a few expert casts (his friends say that he can put his fly into a sugar bowl at 30 paces), there was a resounding splash and his rod bent double. He played the fighting rainbow and pulled out a three-pounder-middling by Silver Creek standards. Then he caught eight more. Up & downstream from him, oblivious to buzzing mosquitoes, were ardent anglers who had camped...
Experts have fished Silver Creek for as long as two weeks without a nibble, and tenderfeet have latched on to as many as eight rainbows in an hour, only to lose them, and the leaders, after a brief, vicious struggle...
Idaho, which has almost twice as much trout water as California and Oregon combined, and only about a tenth as many fishermen, has plenty of other streams where tenderfeet can do better. Silver Creek is for champions...