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Name: Bruce
Staples
Age: 63
Years in
eastern Idaho: 38
Years spent
fly fishing: 32
Favorite type
of fishing: Big fish in small waters
Favorite spot
for an afternoon: Anywhere in Yellowstone National Park's Fall River
Basin.
Favorite spot
for a weeklong trip: Kodiak Island for steelhead and fresh silver
salmon.
How many years
spent fly tying: 30
Favorite
pattern: A dry muddler
Favorite
fishing book: Any of Charlie Brook's six books
The perfect
fishing partner is: Anybody with skills, a high appreciation for fly-fishing
and a low number
of unbelievable stories
Favorite rod:
Any fast-action 6-weight
Favorite reel:
Pfleuger Medalist made before 1985
Awards: 2001
Buz Buszek Memorial Award for fly tying excellence, Federation of Fly
Fishers Charlie Brooks Life Award, WRMC Fly Tier of the Year Award in
1990
Favorite
fishing memory: A 30-inch rainbow on a dry fly.
Worst
experience: Dunking a camera
Dry flies or
nymphs: Dries!! Dries!! Dries!!
Steelhead or
trout: Trout: you can fish for them year-round
Most exotic
place you've fished: Roberts Gravel Pond
Place you want
to go next: Smith's Fork of the Bear River
Favorite
fishing T-shirt: "The more I talk about it, the bigger it
gets."
Years with TU/FFF:
20
Proudest
accomplishment: Recognizing the accomplishments of other anglers and
tiers.
Idea of a
perfect day: Good fishing, good company, good food and good drink.
Beer or
whiskey: Red, Red Wine.
If you could
fish with one person -- alive or dead -- it would be: My Uncle Joe who
tried to instill fly-fishing in my teen-age bait-fishing years.
Most
embarrassing moment on a river: Hooking someone on my back cast.
Who would you
want in a bikini in your boat; Angelina Jolie or Helen Hunt? Rosie
O'Donnell in a bikini would be less of a distraction to my fishing.
Same question
but with Bush or Clinton: Hillary or Laura?
Number of days
fishing last year: 40
Favorite
fishing partner: Mrs. Staples when she decides to go.
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Tim Woodard
Big brown on the South Fork
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Name: Tim Woodard
Age: 28
Years in eastern Idaho: 8
Years spent fly fishing: 10
Favorite type of fishing:
Streamers, and Small Dries in the riffles
Favorite spot for an
afternoon: South Fork of the Snake Byington to Twin Bridges
Favorite spot for a weeklong
trip: If I got a whole week to do nothing but fish, I would be
happy anywhere!
How many years spent fly
tying: 6
Favorite pattern: Depends on
the hatch
Favorite fishing book: The
Earth is Enough: by Harry Middleton
The perfect fishing partner
is: someone who loves to fish
Favorite rod: Sage 590-4
Z-Axis
Favorite reel: Lamson
Velocity
Beer or Whisky: Red
Bull: I don’t drink: it messes up my fishing.
Favorite fishing memory:
Fishing the South Fork early in the morning with Ken Bitton, catching a
large brown trout skating a Chernobyl ant. Pictured above.
Worst experience: Motoring
down the canyon of the South Fork in the snow, hitting a riffle and
loosing the motor in the river. Then I had to row out 17 miles to
Byington with my wife, wet cold, miserable, and not happy, at all! She
was right; it was going to snow that day. We were engaged at the time
and she still married me.
Dry flies or nymphs: Dries
Steelhead or trout: Trout
Most exotic place you've
fished: A secret high mountain Idaho lake hosting golden trout
Place you want to go next:
Chile, or steelhead fishing the Salmon River with Jimmy
Favorite fishing shirt:
Proudest accomplishment:
Graduating from College
Idea of a perfect day: One
of two things: A blue bird powder day in the Tetons, with my
snowboarding buddies, and no one else to track up the snow, or some
friends and I fishing the South Fork with a good hatch, with no one else
in sight. (you asked for perfect not realistic)
If you could fish with one
person -- alive or dead -who would it be: My Grandma, and Grandpa
Woodard. They never got to go fly fishing but gave me my first
rod.
Most embarrassing moment on
a river: I had finished bathing nude in the South Fork Canyon, and I
didn’t notice the drift boat coming down the river full of middle aged
ladies.
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