Boat U.S. - January 2009 - (Page 58) breakfast and broke camp, This is the heart of Idaho’s I grabbed one of the last Frank Church-River of No My first beautiful Dutch oven-baked cinnaReturn Wilderness Area and there was nothing calm about cutthroat trout, with its mon rolls and headed for the gravel bar where the the whitewater twisting around speckled silver-gold boats were launched. Bernt the campsite below and building strength for the rapids a body and red streak grabbed Chuck Sundby, a Boise civil engineer and mile or so downstream. recent convert to fly-fishAmong the big rubber rafts ing, who’d reserved the drift hauled out on the gravel bar, I boat for this six-day river run. caught a glimpse of what I came for, a McKenzie “My wife and I have been talking about River drift boat, my ticket to sample fast-water buying a drift boat,” Chuck said as we fly-fishing for native cutthroat trout on the boarded the 16-footer and Bernt pushed it Middle Fork of the Salmon River as it flows into the current. “So we thought, let’s take through one of the deepest gorges in North a river trip with somebody who knows how America. Its un-dammed waters wind northto handle one and see what it’s all about.” west for 106 miles, dropping 3,000 feet before This was Chuck and Gloria’s third joining the Main Salmon River and its connecday on the river, and Gloria was ready tions to the Snake, the Columbia and ultimately to try the “paddle boat.” She’d offered the Pacific Ocean. me her seat in the bow of the drift boat My guide was the tall, lanky Bill Bernt, wearalongside Chuck, and she’d be passing us ing his trademark Stetson. Shaking Bernt’s hand was like grabbing the The Flying B Ranch and Store at Mile 67 on the Middle Fork is a welcome stop for crook in an oak branch “essentials” like ice cream bars and soft drinks, plus some new dry flies. as a strong gust moves the boughs. Here’s what four decades at the oars of a river raft or drift boat can do. This was Bernt’s 31st year operating Aggipah River Trips. The name, he explained, comes from the Shoshone Indian name for the river, roughly translated “Big Fish Water” or “Salmon Water.” As the hired boatmen and passengers cleaned up from BoatU.S. Magazine January 2009
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