Idaho Angling Service

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Idaho Angling Service operates out of Bellevue, Idaho, the small farming and ranching town at the mouth of the Wood River Valley that serves as the southern gateway to Silver Creek country. The location is not accidental: Bellevue sits closer to the lower Wood River and the Silver Creek drainages than Ketchum to the north, and the guides who work out of this operation know the lower valley water with the intimacy that comes from living among it rather than visiting it seasonally.

The Wood River Valley's fly fishing geography divides roughly between the celebrity water — Silver Creek's Nature Conservancy preserve section, the upper Wood River through Ketchum — and the overlooked lower valley water that connects these famous reaches to the broader Big Wood River system downstream. Idaho Angling Service's guides are specialists in the complete valley, including the sections that don't appear on most visiting anglers' itineraries but that hold quality trout accessible to those with local knowledge and the willingness to walk. The approach to Silver Creek from the Bellevue side gives access to sections of the spring creek that see less pressure than the preserve's main channel, and the lower Wood River holds brown trout that feed selectively in gin-clear water with the selectivity of fish that have survived multiple seasons of angling pressure. For the serious spring creek angler who wants Silver Creek expertise without the resort-town infrastructure of Ketchum, Idaho Angling Service offers a more direct connection to the fishing itself.

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