Steelhead season has been saved!

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It is official, the steelhead season has be reopened! Women With Bait, steelhead tournament is on! We still need NOAA to approve the permit but there have been agreements reached to continue fishing until that time, which we are still hoping for that in a timely fashion. We want to Thank you, everyone, for all of your amazing support!! We appreciate you, this community, and IRCA for all the great things that have been done. We are having a celebration in the park today, instead of the protest that was planned. We will be posting more about that later, but for now take a look at the press releases from F&G and IRCA about the reopening of the season. We hope …

Idaho River Community Alliance

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Hey everyone! Our community is coming together in great ways to save Riggins and our Steelhead Season! Please join us! Your support is needed more now than ever, check out the Idaho River Community Alliance’s Facebook page like it to stay updated on what is happening and share your support! https://www.facebook.com/IdahoRCA/ We just got word yesterday, that one of the groups involved with filing lawsuit against F&G has backed out on that, and are also urging F&G to reconsider the steelhead closure. That article here! IRU backs out of lawsuit. The other groups involved in the threats of litigation again are  Conservation Angler, Wild Fish Conservancy, Friends of the Clearwater, Snake River Waterkeeper, Wild Salmon Rivers and the Wild Fish Conservancy. We hope …

RIGGINS, IDAHO AND STEELHEAD FISHING NEED YOUR HELP!!

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Hello Women with Bait participants & Steelhead Fishing Family,   We are so excited to see you for the 2019 Women with Bait Fishing Tournament!! This year will mark our 25th Annual tournament, an occasion we wouldn’t want to miss.    As you may have heard, the steelhead fishing season could be postponed. However, all hope is not lost! To see this year’s competition move forward, we need your help. The decision sits with NOAA Fisheries, a federal agency and we hope Idaho’s leaders can help.   I am asking that each one of you send a letter similar to what is posted below to Idaho’s Congressional Delegation. We have provided the elected official’s name and where to send the letters. …

Women With Bait and Steelhead Season

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  Good Morning Ladies! The tournament is still on!  We are confident that we will still have Women With Bait and we are anticipating that the steelhead season will be reopened for Spring as we are getting positive indications from IDF&G.  We are working on it and we will be keeping everyone updated! We are feeling positive and want you to be as well. Thank you guys so much for your patience and support, RA crew appreciates you!   Here are the press release links: https://idfg.idaho.gov/press/fish-and-game-commission-suspends-steelhead-fishing-due-threatened-lawsuit https://idfg.idaho.gov/press/letter-steelhead-anglers-fg-director-virgil-moore You can contact Barry Thom at NOAA to encourage a speedy approval of Idaho’s Steelhead plan – barry.thom@noaa.gov. Idaho’s Steelhead Plan Document  in link and it is open for public comment that information is in the …

Hells Canyon Tour Boat Heads Downriver

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Last week Captain Rich drove “Prouty”, our infamous Hells Canyon Tour boat,  downriver from Pittsburg Landing, out of the normal route, to storage in Lewiston at Bentz Boats. Bentz is the company that built us our Prouty. It was a family affair as Romine, Rich’s dad, went with. You can hear a bit of their family history on the Salmon River on our Salmon River jet boat tours ;). Romine rode to Pittsburg Landing and after they got the boat in the water he took off to drive the pickup and trailer to Lewiston to be there when Rich got there with the tour boat to take it back out of water and transport it to storage. We like to take …

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The day of the Wild fish on the Salmon River!

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Another epic day on the Salmon River! We had some clients that we take fishing every year and always enjoy them coming back. The trip leader, Dan, has family in Riggins he makes the trip out here all the way from Georgia and brings some buddies. The fishing was still a bit slow, but still we got into couple steelhead and a few big ol’ Bull Trout. The big Wild Steelhead we got landed though definitely made up for it though! Was very exciting! They were doing some prescribed burns in the area and it was a little bit smokey but made for some magical scenery, and the bighorn sheep are down at the river for us to view. Check …

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First Fall Steelhead Trip on Salmon River

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We just had our first trip out for the Fall Steelhead Fishing Season on the Salmon River. We took a small group of guys out from Eastern Idaho/Utah. It was a very cold morning but the sun came out and warmed the air and it was a beautiful day on the Salmon River. And, yes, we were able to catch some steelhead. Was a little slow going but caught some wild fish and a hatchery that our fisherman released oafter couple quick snaps. More steelhead are showing up so we’re anticipating a little more catching in the coming days on the Salmon, River of No Return. In the meantime, enjoy these beautiful pictures of the Salmon River and our day …

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Birthday Surprise in Hells Canyon!

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We had such a great family fishing trip in Hells Canyon a couple weeks ago, it was a Birthday surprise for Rick. The story behind wanting to go back to the Imnaha area and the day they had planned is…..awesome. Last year Jessica drew a once in a lifetime hunt, for bighorn sheep in the unit near Imnaha, Oregon, which is near Hells Canyon. Jessica, her husband Joe and father-in-law Rick went on this hunt. Rick watched the action from a ridge away as Jessica got to achieve her goal of harvesting a Ram with her husband by her side. If that special memory wasn’t enough, they just really fell in love with the area and talked about wanting to …

Women With Bait 2019 Welcome Letter

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Happy Fall Ladies! We are excited to be gearing up for the 25th Annual Women with Bait Steelhead Tournament 2019 here in Riggins, Idaho!! All you will need is your valid Idaho Fishing license, Steelhead permit, lunch, and drinks! River Adventures will furnish all the gear, tackle, bait, guide and bait boy. We will also furnish a “goody bag” for each lady with all kinds of cool stuff! We will meet at our location 122 South Main Street (across from the Chevron Station) at 7:00 am on the day of your trip., early check-in welcome. Tournament rules can be found on the website at http://hellscanyon.tours/sport-fishing/women-with-bait/. And are also listed below, please, share with your ladies. The cost for each participant is …

Fall Steelhead Fishing Update!

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Fall is in the air! This time of year has us all with steelhead fishing on the brain. Just wanted to give everyone a little update on what is going on, as far as regulations in place by F&G for Fall steelhead fishing season. They have reduced it to keeping one fish for the Fall season. We are happy at this point to still have a keep season! The steelhead haven’t really shown up for us yet though. We will let you know when they do, and we will get our Fall steelhead fishing on! Here is the link for the F&G article in regards to this. https://idfg.idaho.gov/press/reduced-steelhead-limit-extended-until-dec-31 A couple other articles with info when they first reduced the bag …