Photo credit: Chris Hunt.īoundary Creek is a tiny little stream, and as such, it sees very few anglers. Boundary Creek is a great place to start your wilderness fishing adventures. Instead, I was there with a 3-weight fly rod and a box of attractor patterns in search of native west slope cutthroat trout and redband trout, a subspecies of rainbow trout that chooses to stay home in the mountains rather than run to the sea as one of Idaho’s famous B-run steelhead. From there, over the course of several days, boaters, anglers and adventurers of all ilk can literally escape today’s manic realities and enjoy some of the finest floating and fishing left on the planet.īut I wasn’t there to float the Middle Fork through the fabled Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. Several years ago, I was drawn to the Boundary Creek put-in on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River - it’s the launching point for the greatest backcountry float trip in the Lower 48.

Chris Hunt worked in partnership with Visit Idaho to create this Travel Tip.

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