Scorsey

Scorsey

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Corey Scoran is a good buddy of mine who played professional hockey for seven years. He is still passionate about the game in that he heads up the amateur hockey program in Boise and still plays the occasional tournament. But that is not his only passion. He’s developed another. “I had to find something else to take over my OCD when I stopped playing so I ran into a few guys who got me into it and I have been hooked ever since.” No pun intended when Corey says he got hooked because he is referring to something that he loves and that is flyfishing. “It’s the challenge, it’s so different than any other kind of fishing. You’ve got to learn to read the water, you have to read the fish, you have to read the bugs. The places you go are so beautiful, standing in the river, in looking at the mountains, it doesn’t get any better, is for the sole. How long have you been doing this? Maybe a year, I got heavy into it at the end of August and I have been going three or four days a week now just around town and every time I get a chance I go get the Owyhee River and fish for brown’s. I don’t know whether it was instant grams or texts but I saw some beautiful steelhead. We headed up to Couer d’Alene so on the way up, we stopped in Riggins to hit the A run and I was fortunate enough to look into my first steelhead which was a whole other experience in itself. We kept on going and went to the north fork of the Clearwater and got into some real big steelhead and I have never felt anything like that on a fly rod before. It was an experience to say the least.”

There you have it from a great guy who’s converted to the great outdoors.

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