My wife and I wanted to surprise my son Colton (14 years old) on Christmas and gift him a 3-day fly fishing float down the South Fork of the Snake River (I would of course chaperone him ;-). My wife and I have been saving up for this trip for a very long time! Its hard for my to swallow the cost, but if I push it off until another day, well...life may get in the way and, thinking back, I would feel bad missing what would be a lifetime trip for us.
I have been fortunate to have been invited to fish/float the river several years ago and wanted my son to share the same excitement of floating and fishing on such a beautiful river. He is a very experienced outdoorsman for his age (he was presented the Youth Sportsman of the Year Award for my neck of the woods last year!) and an avid fly fisherman since he was very little...at his age, he would definitely get much more from the trip then if I took him at a yonger age. I'm tentatively planning the trip for the first week of August 2018 ...being so far off and not yet booking flights, guide, etc., I wanted to give him a book for X-mas about fly fishing the Snake River...in the book would be a letter from Santa with details of the trip.
With all the books out there, my question to you is...which book(s) would you recommend? A couple things to throw out there...Colton love to tie flies; to cut costs, we would like to camp; in addition to a possible three-day float, it was recommended to me that we also visit Henrys Fork; we would be flying from Buffalo...not sure of the best air port options in ID.
Thank you very much for reading this post, and thanks in advance for any help!
Dino
PS. Below are a few picts of the boy in action!
I have been fortunate to have been invited to fish/float the river several years ago and wanted my son to share the same excitement of floating and fishing on such a beautiful river. He is a very experienced outdoorsman for his age (he was presented the Youth Sportsman of the Year Award for my neck of the woods last year!) and an avid fly fisherman since he was very little...at his age, he would definitely get much more from the trip then if I took him at a yonger age. I'm tentatively planning the trip for the first week of August 2018 ...being so far off and not yet booking flights, guide, etc., I wanted to give him a book for X-mas about fly fishing the Snake River...in the book would be a letter from Santa with details of the trip.
With all the books out there, my question to you is...which book(s) would you recommend? A couple things to throw out there...Colton love to tie flies; to cut costs, we would like to camp; in addition to a possible three-day float, it was recommended to me that we also visit Henrys Fork; we would be flying from Buffalo...not sure of the best air port options in ID.
Thank you very much for reading this post, and thanks in advance for any help!
Dino
PS. Below are a few picts of the boy in action!