Boise river/Lucky Peak reservoir 3-3-07: Steelheader.net- Steelhead, Salmon and trout fishing

Hello, I am new to the board and fairly new to Idaho I moved here a little over six months ago. So yesterday a friend asked if I wanted to go and do some fishing so I decided it was time to buy my resident hunting/fishing lisence and get a line yet. But when I went to wal-mart to get my lisence I was denied a resident lisence. The reason is that my Idaho Drivers Lisence was issued on 9-6-06 so I would not be a resident for three more days. But I asked if they really thought that I went to the DMV the same day that I moved here? They said they could not overide the system and that I was out of luck. So I had to buy another non-res day pass for $11.50, it's like the 5th one that I've had to buy. The problem is that the girl at sportmans warehouse entered in that date the first time I bought a day pass and now I'm stuck with it. Oh well maybee I'll go and buy it next weekend. Anyway, My friend and I hit up the Boise river at Barber Park for awhile with no luck. We were both using spin equipment, him tossing bait from shore and me wading around tossing lures, mostley Thomas Bouyants. After awhile there we headed up to Lucky Peak and fished near the boat ramp at the Dam. Once again he tossed out bait and I hucked lures. We stayed for an hour or so with no luck and nobody arount us was catching anything either so we moved to another spot up the Res. with the same results. We were running out of time due to a UFC pay per view party that I was going to so We headed into town for a last ditch effort before we had to call it a day. I went to a spot on the Boise behind the Garden City fairgrounds where I had caught fish on a previous trip. I went to the same spot I had luck at before and told my friend that I was going to catch one on the first cast, and I did just that. I tossed a silver Bouyant out into the current and about 12ft from having reeled back in, Whammo my lure got nailed and I was hooked into a nice approx 19" Brownie. Then a few moments later my friend had a swing and a miss by what he refered to as a "huge" rainbow. But we were out of time and my wife had already called and asked when I was going to be home to get ready. So reluctently we packed up and headed back to my house. The point is it was a slow day, but I ended up keeping the skunk off in the end by catching the largest Brown that I ever have. My skunkless streak in Idaho continues. Hopefully there will be many more productive days comming as soon as I can get my yearly lisence. BTW, I tried to post this in the Idaho Reports section but I said I could not have access due to not being a subscriber. I will have to consider doing that because I will have many more reports and photos to come. I belonged to I board where I used to live and enjoyed the learning and sharing that occurs and the wealth of local info that these bords can harbor.