Summer is the season most celebrated by children: an endless succession of Saturdays, ripe with potential and bursting with new adventures. There are sports to learn, sailing, water skiing and mountain biking to master, girls to impress and boys to insist they don't want the attention.
What Saturdays and summers are to children, autumn is to fly fishermen. The streams and rivers that ran so wild during the spring snowmelt are calmer and shallower now, brimming with game fish and native Idaho trout. With skill and patience, the dedicated angler can craft an irresistible fly lure; meanwhile, on the opposite side of the stream and displaying no finesse whatsoever, a beginner will get lucky. Even in paradise, life isn't always fair.