http://www.idahohotsprings.com/hot_springs/idaho_hot_springs.htm
public hot springs in idaho
the one i originally bookmarked in idaho is one i have been to numerous times.
one time there i put together a $2400 paul young parabolic 15 split bamboo fly rod, cast an adams #14 dry fly out across the current and within six casts caught four beautiful 10-12 rainbows. that was a great evening with a belly full of trout on the fire and the cool breezes of late september rustling the trees.
that was the only time i fished with that rod and it was like standing on the right side of forever. the slow parabolic action goes beyond description. it was
perfect.
not too long after that, back in texas, i was forced to sell it to keep from losing a piece of property. a back injury had me down and i had no income.
another time there i was standing in the river right in the middle of the kokanee salmon run out of that lake downstream. ribbons of red all up and down the river, shifting and merging into blobs, then streaking away upstream. kokanee are extremely hard to get a hook in as they are not eating on the run out of the lake so you have to use something that causes a reflex strike. in all the afternoon there that time i caught...
ONE.
i ate that fish cooked over a campfire.