Let's Hope This Never Happens Again... (Fly Fishing Idaho)

I hope you reported that to the police. In a rural area like that the police can get a geofence warrant and can shortlist the suspects incredibly quickly. Criminals like that cannot detach from their phones even when they are committing crimes. Some of them drive newer cars/trucks that have sim cards in them.

Words are indescribable of what I just watched! I had to replay that part 5x just to grasp it. I’m soooo glad you’re ok Dan - My God - WOW!! 🤯 I remember one time when I was downrigging for salmon on Georgian Bay in Southwestern Ontario Canada my father and I had a boat go by us close enough that we could see the rifles being pointed at us! That was scary enough as a 10 year old…. Being shot at…. While Fishing!!! Words escape me!!!

Lived in Boise and fished rivers in Idaho for over 30 years. One river I purposely avoided was the Big Lost because it's about the only one where so much of the land around it is private property. Technically you're not trespassing if you stay beneath the high water mark but unfortunately some of the landowners don't always see it that way. Luckily there's literally hundreds of miles of other rivers with plenty of public access especially along highway 20.

Glad you are safe, keep the videos coming.

Glad you are alright. Stay safe out there everyone.

Thank you for sharing your Idaho trip. Good stuff.

Sketchy! Glad you are ok and got into some fish as well!

I had to reglue the reel seat on my Sage too. It’s the most expensive rod I own and the only one I’ve ever had to fix that way.

Dude that is scary. I’ve had some scary moments in the river but nothing like that. Scariest for me was sitting against a tree tying on my line while 2 moose snuck up behind me. I was sitting there and then I felt wet warm air on my neck. I turned around and a bull moose was literally 3 inches from my face. I ran so fast I’m pretty sure I stayed on top of the water like Chris Angel. My best bud was with me and neither of us heard the moose until they were literally breathing down our necks.

I call the early releases “LDR” for Long Distance Releases”… as though I’d planned it that way!

Years ago, while fishing the Skagit near Concrete, my pal and I were standing on a gravel bar and some dopey teenager with @ .22 started to concentrate fire at a Great Blue Heron as it flapped overhead from the high bank across and above us. When we heard a couple of rounds give us the “bumblebee buzz” (a sound you never forget!) we started screaming and the fire subsided. You can’t be too careful in the country!!! 💀💀💀💀💀

I was one fish away from the grand slam on the Yakima the other day. I would consider the grand slam just four different species, so all we needed was a white fish and we would have had it!

Just be careful!! Some of those land owners in not only Idaho, but even in Eastern Washington think they can take aim at another human being who they perceive is trespassing on “their property”. I know there’s some really scenic and beautiful streams out that way, but I don’t understand how another person can feel they have the right to shoot at another person just for trying to cast a line to catch a fish. These are the same people who feel they don’t have to purchase a fishing license as long as they don’t step off of, “their property”. Crazy 🌎 we live in.

Gots to love fishing in ID. Just needed to land a brown :-) Good ad for Sage rods. The only rods I use! BTW - bullet thing is a WTF?

Stay safe, that was an eye opener. Well nice fishing. Why not use the new rods?

Sounded behind you and hit the trees towards the car also seemed suppressed. So unfortunate

Unless they had a suppressor that was a stray round because you couldn’t hear the shot just the round coming in. Still doesn’t make it any less scary except that they were not targeting you

Did you ever hear a shot? If it was really far away it might have been an accident. Or it was shot from a gun supressed and probably subsonic loads. So it was more than likely on purpose

What do you do for work?

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